There are also strict seniority rules for promotion to higher office like colonel or general, which require 20 years and 22 years, respectively.
Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, head of the Defence Ministry's international co-operation department, said the proposal would easily beat NMD, which Russia says could drain Europe financially.
Alternatively, this information could have been obtained by Soviet Colonel-General Albert Makashov, commander of the huge Siberian military district and a unabashed advocate of the assertive use of Soviet military power, who held secret meetings with the Iraqi Foreign Minister in Baghdad shortly before the invasion of Kuwait.
With hands shaken and sheepish thank-yous made, the general and the colonel returned to their armored convoy.
His duties at the White House, on Henry Kissinger's National Security Council and for Nixon, had been carried out while still under military orders and earned him a dizzy ascent, from colonel to four-star general in four years.
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Defence Department documents also indicate that two army Special Forces officers, Brigadier-General Peter Schoomaker and Colonel William Boykin, attended a meeting with Ms Reno in Washington on April 14th, five days before the final raid.
The arrest of the two Serbs -- General Djordje Djukic and Colonel Aleksa Krsmanovic -- raised a key issue: how to pursue war criminals while at the same time maintaining an environment in which all Bosnians can move around freely.
In the port of Saranda, a retired colonel (some say he is a general) seems to call the shots.
One colonel reported worries of this sort to General Bedoya last year, adding some recommendations for army policy based on his own success in reducing the death toll in one of Colombia's worst trouble-spots.
Just days before the general election in June, Colonel Jan Kubice, a senior crime-fighter, presented to a (supposedly) closed session of parliament a report claiming that members of the governing Social Democrat party had been interfering in investigations of organised crime.
Bagram Batman pegs his rank at "O-6 and half, " giving himself a fictional rank between full colonel (O-6) and brigadier general.
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Others killed in the crash include two brigadiers -- which are equivalent to the rank of brigadier general -- and a lieutenant colonel.
One of those who went with General Habyarimana was the army's representative in parliament, Lieutenant Colonel Balthazar Ndengeyinka.
General Nyamwasa seems to have teamed up with a former head of Rwanda's overseas intelligence service, Colonel Patrick Karegaya, who has also fled to South Africa.
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