J.R.O.T.C. was social death there, too, so the battalion-commander job was his.
The first time around, in June 2002, when he was a 31-year-old company commander, his job was to find Osama bin Laden.
In effect, Henderson's potential patronage — an important part of a commander's job — was diminished, and a protégé, if he had had one, would have had to wait longer for a battalion commander's spot.
Since General Petraeus took on the commander's job in June, several aides said, the president has struck a more deferential tone toward him than he used with Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, General Petraeus's predecessor.
It is more likely that the money came from two other sources: off-budget spending when the general was president, and kickbacks on arms sales negotiated when he was army commander (a job he held until 1998).General Pinochet himself, now aged 88, claimed through a spokesman not to remember the origin of the Riggs money.
It was the match commander's job to "get past any feelings of shock", Mr Greaney said.
I never did get anything directly from that year's prison's public affairs officer, a Navy commander whose job was to provide information to the public.
A police precinct commander lost his job over his handling of two other attacks against Latino men that fatal day, an acknowledgment that in Suffolk, equal protection may not always apply to everyone.
A Marine Corps general, James Jones, has been appointed to succeed Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston as supreme allied commander, Europe, a job whose focus has switched from Balkan peacekeeping to antiterror preparedness.
But nearly two months later, the military has quietly canceled the assignment of General Hood, a 33-year Army veteran who was excoriated in the Pakistani news media for one of his previous jobs: commander of the United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
It's safe to say, though, that it was not the salary that caused him to seek the commander-in-chief job, but rather the benefits — including more power than just about anyone on the planet.
