In 1951, he was in Paris, on duty there as a Polish cultural attaché following elite assignments in the United States at the consulate in New York and the embassy in Washington.
Throughout his tenure, he was up for four elite assignments, all of which he received, according to court records.
After West Point he joined the Military Police, an Army cop, heading its most elite unit where assignments tended to be classified.
YET for all the skepticism, some of these critics applaud Mr. Rumsfeld for beating back the bureaucratic resistance to using the Pentagon's elite units in covert assignments in the campaign against terrorism.
The series follows an elite squad in Los Angeles whose assignment is to bring in the 100 worst criminals out there, and the miscreants make crystal clear why they are on the list, by assaulting and killing with vicious abandon before the good guys catch up with them.
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.
But they wave goodbye to 15 players, who are off on various assignments with England's elite squad, the Saxons and Ireland.
The years of the Second World War saw most of the Wanderers' playing staff see action on the front, a rare occurrence within elite football, as top sportsmen were generally assigned to physical training assignments, away from enemy fire.
Starting Thursday, the beginning of New York Fashion Week, the fashion elite will coolly slip into their seat assignments, creating a twice-a-year barometer of who is hottest, slimmest and most likely to start a new celebrity fragrance.
The first two assignments — a brawl at an elite athletic club and an episode in which a heckler called New York's mayor Michael R. Bloomberg "Pharaoh Bloomberg" — drew responses from as far off as Africa.
