"President Obama was precise and accurate in referring to the fact that Senator Hagel would be the 'first person of enlisted rank' to go on to serve as secretary of defense, and that experience on the front lines is part of the reason why President Obama chose him," said Marie Harf, a White House spokeswoman who is working on Mr. Hagel's nomination.
Enlisted members have to go through 8 weeks of boot camp (8 weeks versus 13 weeks for OCS).
Even so, those enlisted men are starting to go home on leave and back to their wives and girlfriends who force them to watch Glee.
His Harvard advisor, Richard Neustadt, also stated that Gore decided, "that he would have to go as an enlisted man because, he said, 'In Tennessee, that's what most people have to do.'" In addition, Michael Roche, Gore's editor for The Castle Courier, stated that "anybody who knew Al Gore in Vietnam knows he could have sat on his butt and he didn't".
Instead he chose to go into the infantry as an enlisted man.
Joey told the panel he chose the Marines because the branch would allow him to go through basic training like any other enlisted soldier.
Lucky Private Harley Alton was to go to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where, for some reason or other, they wanted an enlisted man with infantry training.
During my service in Iraq in 2003, I met many senior enlisted Marine reservists in combat units who held master's degrees and left good jobs to go and fight.
NCIS agents coerced "a bunch of scared kids who just wanted to go home" into making incriminating statements, Oprison told the retrial jury, composed of three officers and three senior enlisted personnel.
This is the fifth independent counsel requested to investigate members of the Clinton administration.Sergeant-Major Gene McKinney, once the American army's top enlisted man, went on trial for sexual misconduct and coercion against six female soldiers.See article: The sexual-harassment crazeIn a special poll, voters in Maine repealed a gay-rights law that was due to go into effect this summer.
