Word: commandante
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The President also went out of his way last week to say he was inclined to favor an expansion of "end strength" in the Army and the Marine Corps in general. That decision is about Iraq but is not about a surge: Bush had a near revolt on his hands...
Two chiefs, Gen. Schoomaker and the new Marine Commandant James Conway, are also more openly arguing that their services are stretched too thin and need more forces overall. Schoomaker, a former Special Forces officer who was brought back from retirement to run the Army, last week said the Army would...
Pace, like all chairmen, serves a two-year term, which expires next summer. Virtually all the chairmen have been reappointed for a second two-year term, but if Gates wants to send a sharp message to the brass that he wants generals who more willing to challenge him in private...
Grand Illusion Jean Renoir Perhaps the most beloved film on any list of all-time greats, this World War I saga prefigures many a Great Escape prison-camp movie--it pits a German commandant (Erich von Stroheim) against two captured French officers (Pierre Fresnay and Jean Gabin) in a gradually...
(1)The senior enlisted Marine of the entire Corps, picked by the Commandant of the Marine Corps