With both Lt. Col. Dowty and Chaplain Hernandez being so unabashedly misogynistic and homophobic, you can imagine their response to the appointment of a new commandant at the Air Force Academy who is both a woman and gay!
(The Marines got a new commandant, Gen. James F. Amos, last month, and the Air Force chief, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, retires in 2012 unless he is rotated into another senior position, which is possible).
Gen. William A. Cugno, adjutant general of the state Military Department, placed the insignia of rank on the new commandant at a ceremony at the horse guard headquarters.
Gen.-select Johnny A. Weida, a 1978 graduate of the academy, to become the new commandant of cadets and acting superintendent.
So many buildings were destroyed in the bombardment that the Russian military has found it difficult to find an adequate office for the city's new commandant.
The new commandant of the Marine Corps does care, and he was swiftly rebuked after making unusual comments about troops' sleeping arrangements over the weekend.
Possibly they were made to show Richard Baer, the new commandant, how the camp operated; or to be sent to Berlin to show officials how efficiently the camp was run.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — With American troops in the thick of the fighting in Afghanistan, the new commandant of the Marines Corps says now is not the time to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibiting gay men and women from openly serving in the military.
The camp's new commandant Kurt Franz, formerly its deputy commandant, took over in mid or late August.
Pretorius tried again during 1856, holding meetings with eight-man commissions in Rustenburg, Potchefstroom and Pretoria, but Stephanus Schoeman, Zoutpansberg's new Commandant-General, repudiated these efforts.
