He became a general. During the nineteen thirties, President Herbert Hoover appointed him chief of staff of the Army, one of the most important jobs in the American military.

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and Barak,a former general and army chief of staff, says Israel is a state of law and lawbreakers will be punished.

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Former U.S.Army Vice Chief of Staff General Jack Keane, who was intimately involved in planning for the U.S.

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In 2000, former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki first proposed the FCS project in an attempt to make the Army more deployable, networked, jointly synchronized and survivable.

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Yugoslavia's chief of army staff, General Dragoljub Ojdanic, has accused the federal government and its prime minister, Momir Bulatovic, a Milosevic loyalist who comes from Montenegro, of leaving the army penniless.

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The new army chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, was chosen by Musharraf and the two men are very close.

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