At a meeting soon after the ceremony, frustrated command staff members questioned whether someone had orchestrated the vote.
Last year, 52 officers and command staff members took home total compensation of more than $200,000, according to records provided by the city controller.
One person who was briefed on the proposal prepared by the Special Operations Command staff members, and who spoke on condition of anonymity because the briefing had not yet been approved, said it was in the form of about two dozen slides.
Everybody in journalism has read a memo that the Times high command sent staff members a couple of weeks ago, saying, in a way that must have piqued their curiosity as much as it reassured them, that an advance look at the book revealed that it contained "smears" of individual staffers.
Congress has blocked, at least temporarily, an idea to consolidate several hundred of the command's Washington-based staff members in a $10 million-a-year satellite office here, saying it would violate spending limits on such offices.
The task force, led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, consists of 28 detectives from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command and seven civilian staff members who have been working in "close collaboration" with a senior investigating officer from the Portuguese police.
"As they do throughout the course of the year, the police commissioner and the top members of his command staff have assessed the operational needs of the department and have determined that these transfers will best address those needs," said Deputy Inspector Chris Rising, a department spokesman.
It shows firefighters listening to radio traffic between Granite Mountain and members of the command staff, who sounded puzzled about what was going on, with one person saying he thought the crew was in a safety zone.
After Mengsk betrays other members of his command staff and reveals his real objectives of obtaining ultimate power, Raynor deserts and forms a resistance movement to the Dominion, labeled Raynor's Raiders.
The outdoor attractions are run by "Screamsters", staff members who are commanded to scare visitors by The Overlord when night falls.
Marines from other units, as well as members of Edson's command staff, including Major Bailey, took ammunition and grenades under fire to the Marines around Hill 123, who were running critically low.
