Kiley told him to speak to a sergeant major, a top enlisted officer.
Layton was a command sergeant major, the senior enlisted adviser to the commander at the post.
The major contributions are enlisted as following: 1.
Women who are senior officers today -- lieutenant colonel or higher in the Army and Air Force, commander or higher in the Navy, and command sergeant majors in the enlisted ranks -- were among the first to integrate their services.
But that didn't prevent her from becoming a drill sergeant and being promoted all the way to command sergeant major, the highest regular enlisted rank in the Reserves.
Sergeant Major Tilley, the top enlisted man, recently held a special class on wearing the beret for 250 noncommissioned officers at Fort Bliss, Tex., who will in turn relay the message to their subordinates.
White officers, however, received the leave, causing a major grievance among the enlisted men.
Sergeant Major Wilson was the top enlisted member of the Second Brigade.
He said that he and Senator Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who was the major force behind the bill, enlisted Mrs. Clinton's help in the spring of 1997 when the president became "skittish" about the program.
In the meantime, the flurry of activity is proving to be lucrative on K Street, as every major lobbying firm has been enlisted and campaign coffers are filling with millions of dollars from the telephone, cable, software and high-tech industries trying to shape the legislation.
