On receiving my Peace Corps assignment in 1995, I asked to be sent to the farthest reaches available, in part to re-evaluate life in a new place, among new people, far from family and existing friends.
Dale Olson, an elder statesman of the Hollywood publicity corps whose assignments over a four-decade career included representing Rock Hudson during the last months of the actor's struggle with AIDS, died Thursday of complications of liver cancer.
Commander of the Afrika Korps Field Marshal Erwin Rommel promised the co-operation of his corps in these assignments.
Her first feature documentary, spun out of a class assignment, is about the elite female corps of bodyguards assigned to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.
After that would probably come a promotion to lieutenant general, and perhaps an assignment as a corps commander in Germany, or even in South Vietnam again.
From February 1943 until March 1944 I Corps prepared for its next assignment, Operation Cartwheel.
Part of this involves a corporate version of the peace corps: young staff get one-month assignments in the developing world to work on worthy projects.
Thus Snow, whose service in World War II involved giving scientists overseas assignments, recommends dispatching a corps of technologists to industrialize the third world.
During this time the division returned to the Ninth Army under XIX Corps, though saw temporary assignments to several other corps through the spring.
At the close of World War I, he moved first into the Vatican's bureaucracy and then into the diplomatic corps, serving in what seemed like backwater assignments -- Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.
