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unusual facts about Chief of staff



Adjutant Corps

After the war, the necessity of the corps was understood and the Chief of Staff of the time, Mordechai Gur, in a meeting with senior officers from the Manpower Directorate (now Human Resources Directorate), decided on its creation.

Barry Swanson

He took the office of Chief of Staff on May 1, 2010 following the retirement of Commissioner Robin Dunster.

Battle of Quatre Bras

At the Dutch headquarters at Genappe (about five kilometres (3 miles) from Quatre Bras), Major-General Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, chief of staff to the Prince of Orange, realising the danger ordered Lieutenant-General Hendrik George de Perponcher Sedlnitsky, the commander of the 2nd Dutch Division, to dispatch his 2nd Brigade (Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) to occupy Quatre Bras.

Christine Wallace

She is married to former Chief of staff to Kim Beazley, Michael Costello AO.

Dadala Raphael Ramanayya

In 1936 Monsieur André Ménard (who later came back to India on July 31, 1950 as Governor of French settlements in India), then chef de cabinet and Secretary to the Governor's establishment went into Bharati Mills to negotiate a settlement with the workers who were on strike and was instead taken by them as a hostage for fulling their demands.

Edward Heaton-Ellis

In November 1916, Heaton-Ellis was appointed chief of staff to Rear-Admiral Sir William Pakenham, commanding the Battlecruiser Squadron, in HMS Lion.

Ernesto Geisel

Having the aforesaid activities been stopped, Geisel and his Chief of Staff, Minister Golbery do Couto e Silva devised a plan of gradual, slow democratization that would succeed, in spite of all attempts and threats of the opposition offered by radical sectors of the military hierarchy and some terrorist movements the leftists would still try against the government.

Hans-Joachim Dönitz

He then served as Chief of Staff and navigator in the anti-submarine division in the 4th Flotilla, based at Warnemünde.

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Concentrating on decisions actually made by Eisenhower and the pressures brought to bear on him personally, it includes his personal relationship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Ian Mune) and his own Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, US Army (Timothy Bottoms).

Iqbal Riza

He served as the Chef de Cabinet (Chief of Staff) to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from his appointment at the beginning of Annan's term in January 1997 until his retirement January 15, 2005.

Iraqi aluminum tubes

A substantial part of the story was based on deliberate leaking of classified information to the Times reporters by Scooter Libby, the chief of staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Islamic Courts Union

On January 10, a report by Somali presidential chief of staff, Abdirizak Hassan stated the US airstrikes had killed Al Qaeda member Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, and leaders of the Islamic Courts Union including Abduallahi Moalim Ali (former chief of security for Mogadishu), Abdirahman Janaqow, and a third unidentified person.

Ivor Bell

Ivor Malachy Bell is an Irish republican, and a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who later became Chief of Staff on the Army Council.

Jacques Lanxade

He was a private chief of staff of François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic, from 1989 to 1991, and became chief of defense of the French Armed Forces from 1991 to 1995.

Johannes Poeppel

He became Staff Officer to the Generalinspekteure Friedrich Foertsch and Heinrich Trettner and commanded the Feldartilleriebataillon 31 in Lüneburg.

John Gordon Fowler

When World War II began, he became an assistant chief of staff for the Anti-Submarine Command in New York City where he also became deputy chief of staff for the First Air Force at Mitchel Field, New York in October 1943.

John Thomason

The son of a physician and the grandson of Confederate General James Longstreet's chief of staff Major TJ Goree, John Thomason enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on 6 April 1917 and served until his death in 1944.

Miles Tolbert

Governor Henry appointed J.D. Strong, longtime staffer in the Office of the Secretary and Tolbert's then chief of staff, to serve as Tolbert's successor.

October 22nd Scud missile attack

This fear was raised by military intelligence chief Eli Zeira at a situation assessment with the Chief of Staff on October 9.

Palácio do Planalto

Besides the President, a few high advisers also have offices in the Planalto, including the Vice President and the Chief of Staff; the other ministries are laid along the Ministries Esplanade.

The fourth floor contains a large lounge area and the offices of senior government officials, including the Chief of Staff and the Chief of the Institutional Security Cabinet.

Paul Calandra

He then served as chief of staff to Steve Gilchrist, who served as the Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP for Scarborough East in the government of Mike Harris.

Robert S. Weiner

Mr. Weiner served as Chief of staff for the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Aging under Florida Congressman Claude Pepper as well as a White House Chief of Press Relations and Director of Public Affairs during the Clinton and Bush administrations.

Robert Schwarz Strauss

Many of the president's supporters believed that the aggressive management style of his Chief of Staff Donald Regan was making matters worse, but the President remained loyal to Regan and would not consider replacing him.

Sarwar Jahan Nizam

Vice Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam, ndu, psc, BN (born 1952) is the first ever Vice-Admiral and Ex-Chief of Staff for the Bangladesh Navy.

Shahid Iqbal

Vice-Admiral Shahid Iqbal, Born: 15 July 1953, HI(M), SI, is a retired 3-star rank naval officer and the former Chief of Staff (COS) of Pakistan Navy who served as the former Commander of Combined Task Force 150.

Sri Lanka Armoured Corps

Major General Y. Balaretnarajah, VSV, USP,ndc, SLAC- Former Chief of Staff of the Army, Commandant Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force, GOC, 1 Division and Commander, Security Forces, Jaffna.

Stepan Kucherov

After joining the Soviet Navy in 1922, he advanced through the ranks and held various commands, including Chief of Staff of the Northern Fleet (August 1940), Commander of the White Sea Flotilla (February 1943), and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Soviet Navy (1944–45).

Takaji Wachi

Wachi engaged in efforts to negotiate with the Chinese to end the war and tried to communicate with General He Yingqin the National Revolutionary Army Chief of Staff, via a Chinese agent in 1938, but these efforts failed.

Volker Wieker

Volker Wieker (born 1 March 1954 in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony) is the Chief of Staff (Generalinspekteur) of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces.


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355th Fighter Wing

In the television series The West Wing, White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry flew F-105s for the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing during the Vietnam War.

Aleksandr Golovko

In 2003 he became Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Space Forces and then returned to the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre as Chief of Staff from 2004 to 2007, and Commander from 2007 to 2011.

Alexander Butterfield

H. R. Haldeman, the chief of staff to President-elect Richard Nixon, knew Butterfield from having studied with him at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Battle of Yenangyaung

The situation became so critical that General Harold Alexander, commanding the Burma Army, asked Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell, the American commander of the China Burma India Theater and Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-Shek, to move the Chinese 38th Division immediately into the Yenaungyaung area.

Brinckman baronets

The latter was a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards, Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Victoria and to the Governor-General of Canada and Chief of Staff to the British Military Mission in Moscow during the Second World War.

Bruce Antone

Antone worked as a legislative aide to State Senator Buddy Dyer from 1992 to 1999, including serving as his chief of staff.

Bruce Bialosky

He worked with Patty Cafferata (later State Treasurer of Nevada and Gubernatorial candidate in 1986) and her mother, Barbara Vucanovich (who was Senator Paul Laxalt’s chief of staff and later the first member of Congress from Northern Nevada).

Corey O'Brien

In the Democratic primary, O'Brien finished with the second-highest vote total, narrowly ahead of former county chief of staff Elizabeth Randol, but behind the top vote getter, former State Representative James Wansacz.

Easson

Shane Easson (born 1955), Chief of Staff to former NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth

Erik Arneson

Erik Arneson is a prominent political staffer in Pennsylvania, serving as Chief of Staff for former Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Chip Brightbill and as Communications and Policy Director for current Majority Leader Dominic F. Pileggi.

Francisco Flores Pérez

He entered politics after the assassination of his father-in-law, who was chief of staff to Alfredo Cristiani.

Françoise Ducros

For 10 years, she worked for the then Liberal government acting as chief of staff from 1993 to 1996 to Brian Tobin, former Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and, from 1996 to 1999, as chief of staff to Stéphane Dion, then Minister of Inter-governmental Affairs.

Gaffey

Hugh Joseph Gaffey (1895–1946), Chief of Staff for General George Patton's Third Army during World War II

Grandes Unités Françaises

Grandes Unités Françaises (full title: Guerre 1939-1945 Les Grandes Unités Françaises) is a monumental six-volume (the fifth volume is actually composed of four separate works) World War II order of battle and military unit history reference compiled by the historical service of the chief of staff of the French Army.

H. Steven Blum

# August 2002 - April 2003, Chief of Staff, United States Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado

Heather Giugni

In November 2011, the majority leader of the Hawaii House of Representatives, Blake Oshiro, announced that he would resign from the legislature to become Governor Neil Abercrombie's deputy chief of staff.

Jacques Gounon

He served as an Industry Advisor to Michel Giraud between 1993 and 1995, and from 1995 to 1996 he was Chief of Staff to Anne-Marie Idrac.

James Hoth Mai

Formally Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, then Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, he preplaced Oyay Deng Ajak as Chief of General Staff in May 2009.

Jeanette Núñez

She began her career as Chief of Staff for Florida State Senator Alex Díaz de la Portilla, where she was involved in legislative policy and constituent service.

Jerry D. Roe

He is the father of Jason Roe, a former chief of staff to United States Representative Tom Feeney and former deputy campaign manager of the 2008 presidential primary campaign of Mitt Romney; and Samantha Roe, formerly of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Jimmy D. Ross

He served as the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Materiel Command, from 1984 to 1986 and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Depot System Command, from 1986 to 1987.

Joseph C. Carter

In 1978 he joined the Boston Police Department where his positions including patrol officer, detective, patrol supervisor, Deputy Superintendent, Superintendent, Chief of Staff of the department and Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, presiding over all departmental disciplinary trial boards.

Karine A Affair

Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz, chief of staff of the Israeli Army, announced in a Tel Aviv news conference on January 4 that the army had seized the ship while General Anthony Zinni was meeting with Yasser Arafat to promote negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Karl Palmgreen

From 1939 to 1941 he was commander of the Sperrbrecher (Mine Sweeper; Pathfinder) IX and I and thereafter until 1943 chief of the 4th Sperrbrecherflottille, followed by service positions as head of the 36th Minensuchflottille, German Chief of Staff to the Italian admiral in the Italian Navy Command, 1st class admiral staff officer at the 2nd Sicherungsdivision and head of the 38th Minensuchflottille.

Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels

He served as chief of staff to Alexandros Mavrokordatos in the disastrous Battle of Peta on 16 July 1822, and died of his wounds a few months later at Missolonghi.

Lawrence Di Rita

Di Rita was Policy Director to the 1996 Presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Phil Gramm and Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison from 1996 until 2001.

Lev Galler

Subsequently he commanded the destroyer Mecheslav, the battleship Andrei Pervozvanny and was subsequently chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet during the British Campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919.

Liu Bocheng

In the Red Army’s endeavour against the KMT's Fifth Encirclement Campaign, Liu was demoted to Chief of Staff of the 5th Field Army following his dissidence with Bo and Braun.

Lonna Hooks

Prior to her appointment as Secretary of State, Hooks had been an attorney at Schering-Plough, and had served under Whitman at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities as her chief of staff.

Lorenzo Thomas

From 1853 to 1861, he served as chief of staff to the commanding general of the U.S. Army, Winfield Scott.

Memory conformity

Reportedly, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's Chief of Staff, flew to Scotland to present The Duke of Hamilton with a peace proposal between Germany and Britain.

Michael Wynne

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asked for and received his resignation (and that of Chief of Staff T. Michael Moseley) on June 5, 2008, in the wake of the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident and the mistaken shipment of Minuteman III parts to Taiwan in 2006, followed by an investigation by and a critical report from Admiral Kirkland H. Donald regarding the Minuteman incident.

Nigel Wright

Nigel S. Wright, the former Chief of Staff in the Canadian Prime Minister's Office

Owu kingdom

The 2010 festival was attended by Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II, former President of Nigeria, Balogun of Owu Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Mike Oghiedome, former Governor and Field Commander of ECOMOG, Rtd General Tunji Olurin.

Pace University School of Law

John P. Cahill '85 - Senior Policy Advisor & Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York State Governor George E. Pataki, and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan; former Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Counsel at Chadbourne & Parke

Panamanian presidential election, 1978

Many suspected that Paredes had struck a deal with Colonel Manuel Noriega, who had been the assistant chief of staff for intelligence since 1970, whereby Noriega would assume command of the Guard and Paredes would become president in 1984.

Patrick Denis O'Donnell

Patrick Denis O'Donnell died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, after a long illness, and his remains were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, following a funeral with military honours and a pall-bearer party from the 5th Infantry Battalion, whose insignia he designed, and in the presence of the Chief of Staff, Lt. General James Sreenan, and accompanied by surviving family members, relatives and friends.

Paulino Matip Nhial

In May 2009 Paulino was promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant General while Major General James Hoth Mai was promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed the SPLA’s Chief of Staff.

Pedersen rifle

Some writers have implied that the Pedersen rifle was effectively killed by Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur’s decision to require use of the .30-06 cartridge for the standard semiautomatic rifle.

Post-Suharto era

Considered the unseen power behind the throne, General Wiranto of the Chief of Staff over the military that was central to the New Order, is believed to have been behind the decision of Suharto to step down.

Preston Brown

He served as Chief of Staff in the 2nd Infantry Division at Château-Thierry and Saint-Mihiel in 1918, and was Chief of Staff of the 4th Army Corps.

Raza Muhammad

11th Infantry Division Pakistan

Director General Inter Services Intelligence
Ministry of Defence Production
30th Infantry Brigade
Sindh Regiment
Director Military Intelligence DMI
Chief of Staff X Corps (Pakistan)

Robert William Strong

Robert William Strong, Jr., a Major General who served as Chief of Staff for the Eighth Air Force from 1966 to 1970.

Scott Waguespack

Waguespack was the city administrator and chief of staff to Berwyn mayor Michael A. O'Connor in 2005.

Shiro Kawase

Kawase began another tour of duty with the Navy General Staff in Tokyo on 15 February 1944, then moved briefly to the position of assistant chief of staff of the Southwest Area Fleet – which coordinated naval, air, and ground forces for the occupation and defense of the Philippine Islands, French Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, and the Netherlands East Indies – on 5 June 1944.

Tony Rudy

After serving as a staffer in the office of U. S. Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) from approximately 1995 to 2001, and rising to deputy chief of staff, Rudy joined "Team Abramoff" at Greenberg Traurig.

Training Group RAF

Training Group's last Air Officer Commanding was Air Vice-Marshal John Ponsonby who was both Chief of Staff Training and Air Officer Commanding Training Group.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2002

In the 18th district, Democrat Gary Condit, under fire from the Chandra Levy scandal, lost in the primary to his former chief of staff, Dennis Cardoza.

William L. Shelton

Following staff college, he was assigned to work for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Air Force Space Command on Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado.