A Minnesota national guardsman faces federal fraud charges in connection with the theft of names, social security numbers and security clearance levels of roughly 400 members of his former army unit in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
You are asking my guardsman not to empty the magazine of his weapon into the compound wall from which he is being shot at .All along the canal, a frequent refrain from soldiers is: "Do you think we are winning?" The more pertinent question, perhaps, is why the area was lost in the first place.
And although the former guardsman, Mr Rezai, is deemed a distant runner, he has chipped away at the president's core constituency.
Last year their conservative opponents helped a former guardsman become Tehran's mayor.
Just what he meant has grown increasingly clear since the disputed presidential elections in June that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an ex-guardsman, to power.
Under the complaisant eye of Mr Ahmadinejad, a former guardsman, it has won a big, even dominant, place in the economy.The Revolutionary Guard signalled its aggressive interest in business back in 2004, during the presidency of Mr Ahmadinejad's reformist predecessor, Muhammad Khatami, when its people seized Tehran's new airport from the government.
Records show that he rarely even turned up for the drills required of a part-time guardsman.
The guardsman, who was brought up in Pontyclun, near Cardiff, before his family moved to Wrexham last year, joined the Army as a 17-year-old in 2009.
Hundreds of staffers joined the President outside the White House to mark the moment as a Marine honour guardsman rang a bell three times.
He was hardly guardsman-straight yesterday but there was at least daylight between backside and ground.
The first Sikh guardsman to be given permission to wear a turban instead of a bearskin while on duty outside Buckingham Palace is coming under pressure from colleagues not to break more than 100 years of tradition.
