He graduated from the national military academy in 1944 and rapidly climbed the ranks of the military, becoming brigadier-general in 1971.
Habibie delivered a closed-door speech to senior military staff in which he made it clear that the next president does not have to come from the ranks of the military.
The event is free and open to all military spouses - all ranks, active duty, retired, Reserve and National Guard.
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From my husband right on down through the ranks of this military, from those powerful CEOs to all of the teachers, clergy, and neighbors that you deal with every single day.
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While SCAF has tried to talk the talk of the new era, all of its members rose through the ranks of the Egyptian military with the blessings of Hosni Mubarak.
Far from being a force for social change, the military enlists far more people from the ranks of the poor because the poor often have no better alternatives.
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In American military mythology Custer's last stand ranks alongside the Battle of the Alamo, an attack by Mexican forces on a compound in Texas, which left all the defenders dead.
He served in Vietnam as a military adviser and worked his way up the ranks throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Despite being one of just a few women in the Rio de Janeiro military police, she has risen through the ranks, commanding more than 100 male officers.
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Their ranks were bolstered by soldiers and officers who defected from the Syrian military and security forces.
Hours before the accusations came to light, military leaders had told a Senate committee they would make fighting sexual assault in their ranks a top priority.
Mubarak came to power in 1981, after then-President Anwar Sadat died in a hail of gunfire at a military parade -- killed by Islamic militants from within the army's own ranks after he took the dramatic step of making peace with Israel.
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Law enforcement officers and military personnel made up most of the first recruits to join the agency's replenished ranks in October 2001, said Jamie Smith, a former federal air marshal instructor and current CEO of SCG International, a global security firm.
My father entered the Army in the enlisted ranks and, twenty years later, retired as a Major, so he had a very successful military career.
He rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general and the army's chief of staff in 1970 during the military regime of President General Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio.
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