Hook, a former Army man and prison guard, had been hired by DynCorp just the month before.
Even so, I got a book flung at me for talking in class by our inspirational English teacher, an ex-army man.
Though the army man obliged, General Bimantoro, head of Indonesia's police, has refused to accept his sacking which, according to the rules, must be approved by parliament.
The deadpan American hipster Tommy Lee Jones gives the performance of a lifetime in this sombre but fascinating movie, playing a former army man, Hank Deerfield, whose son, Mike (Jonathan Tucker), after serving in Iraq, has gone AWOL in America.
As the young man (played by Emile Hirsch) travels about, he attracts the interest of a South Dakota wheat farmer (Vince Vaughn, playing it straight), an aging hippie (Catherine Keener), and a retired Army man living on the edge of the California desert (Hal Holbrook), all of whom ask him to put down his backpack and stay.
Captain Martin Walker is a one-man army (or the leader of a three-man army, anyways) whose ability to carve through countless foes is unmatched in any action movie.
The fidgety defector, 20-year-old Ahmed al-Latouf, said he had served as an army mortar man.
The Wa, a Burmese tribe with a 20, 000-man army, are considered Asia's new heroin and amphetamine kings.
After weeks of air and missile bombardment, the 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army.
Since the United States maintains a tightly knit alliance with South Korea to deter the North's 1m-man army, its planners have been consulting closely with their hosts about the overhaul.
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The full-dress welcome organised by the army for a man who owed his freedom not to a finding of innocence but to an act of mercy (a quality rare in his own regime) was defiant.
These forces have been resisting the Vietnamese and their Cambodian proxies valiantly but have been obliged, in the face of serious shortages in equipment, inadequate financial backing and tenuous logistical support, to establish a marriage of convenience with the 35, 000-man army of the Khmer Rouge.
While the United States is moving forward in reorienting and restructuring its military strategy, Russia is showing once again how far it is moving backward by focusing so much of its strategy on maintaining strong nuclear forces and a million-man army to protect against a mythical U.S. and NATO enemy.
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When he joined the army as a young man he was interested in military engineering, and probably his ambitions should have stopped there.
The army and the police man roadblocks on all strategic routes, and Mr Mugabe's personal youth militia has reportedly been issued with assault rifles.
He told Army Radio that the man found he could not withdraw money from an automatic cash machine, and came back to the Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba with a pistol before opening fire.
Police said they responded Wednesday afternoon to reports of an incident close to the Woolwich army barracks involving a man being assaulted by two other men wielding a number of weapons including firearms.
General Mamdouh Shaheen, a member of the 24-man ruling army council, told a television interviewer that at least until presidential elections are held next summer the army will retain the right to hire and fire governments.
And the Observatory said the Syrian army shot and killed a man in the southern city of Daraa.
The worn "The Soldier's Prayer Book" will soon be passed on to another military man Army Spc.
Prince Abdullah, aged 36 and the king's right-hand man in the army, has never concerned himself with politics.
Mr. YVES GARCON (Architect, Lebanon): (Unintelligible) security to the south of Lebanon (unintelligible) great man and the army, in the military army.
The outdoor climbing frame, built by the army, is the largest man-made structure for apes in the world, and will encourage the chimpanzees' natural curiosity and intelligence.
He seems to have remained an honest man in an army famous for its corruption, running smuggling rackets across the country's borders, and lining the pockets of generals who became involved in business.
The Zapatista uprising began in January 1994, when the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army, led by a man known only as "Subcommandante Marcos" declared war on the central government in an effort to gain improved living conditions and better rights for indigenous Indian peasants in the southern Chiapas region.
Migrants own the shops, restaurants and building firms, and man the police and army.
The man responsible for an army cadet expedition which led to a teenager's death has admitted health and safety charges.
The man was arrested by army intelligence at his house in a village near the town of Pokhran on Sunday and is being questioned by security agencies.
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