By the way, when will FINRA be going after all those Kentucky Colonels and mail-order ministers?
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One day he overheard two colonels complain that no gun existed that could meet their specifications.
These are sergeants first class, majors, lieutenant colonels, folks with 10 to 20 years of service in the Army.
From 1970-1976, the Kentucky Colonels (an American Basketball Association club) and the Louisville Cardinals both played in Freedom Hall.
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So far 22 soldiers, including three colonels, have been arrested over these crimes.
Colonels Rajoub and Dahlan, who might one day be contenders for the leadership themselves, are cut from the same cloth.
Two colonels were said to have been placed under arrest for the actions of their men and are now being questioned.
When the Virginia Squires folded, the ABA and NBA had just two teams left to deal with: The Kentucky Colonels and the Spirits.
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Certainly the colonels expected weapons of mass destruction to be found.
The authority of the two colonels comes not only from the number of men they command, running into several thousand, but also from the force's political composition.
We see junior officers, captains and mid-level officers, majors and lieutenant colonels leaving the military in larger numbers than, than we would expect or that would be healthy.
The state-run LANA news agency reported Monday that a deal had been struck for two Libyan Army colonels to take the helm of the brigades, something Al-Akkari denies.
They're obviously not the higher ranking officers: colonels or generals.
Syria's state-run SANA news agency, meanwhile, reported that 20 law enforcement and army troops -- among them, a colonel and a pair of lieutenant colonels -- were buried Saturday.
According to a survey conducted by an international organization in 2008, roughly seventy per cent of the colonels and generals in the Afghan Army appeared to be loyal to Khan.
During my recent visit, I discussed the war with several dozen American and British generals, colonels, and majors, and many of them described the conflict as having recently entered a new phase.
Petraeus asked Peter Mansoor, who had participated in the Council of Colonels, to serve as his executive officer in Iraq, a position similar to that of chief of staff in a civilian office.
Brown, owner of the Colonels, took the deal. (Then the president and majority owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Brown would go on to become the governor of Kentucky.) The Silnas turned it down.
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"Just as the military cannot hire people off the street to become instant majors and lieutenant colonels, it takes years for the CIA to recruit, train and deploy experienced case officers, " he wrote.
Colonels and Generals, whether in the military or marketing, are often so far removed from the line of engagement that, without listening to front line personnel, their decisions are made in a vacuum.
What does seem rather surprising is that all those commanders, captains and colonels must have sat through the course and not felt the need to tell someone that something rather weird was going on.
In the radical press and on the internet, the IMF is already being called a junta, comparable to the colonels who took power in 1967 with the connivance (most Greeks believe) of the United States.
After the Six-Day war in June, the then secretary of state, Dean Rusk, persuaded the administration to upgrade relations with the colonels' regime as it had been so helpful to America's efforts to support Israel.
After all, Pasok, which was founded by the late prime minister, sprang out of the Panhellenic Liberation Movement, known as Pak, an undercover guerrilla outfit set up to fight the colonels' junta that ran Greece between 1967 and 1974.
After the Papandreous were kicked out of Greece by the colonels in the 1960s, he spent his teens in Canada and Sweden, where he nearly became an academic after taking degrees at Amherst, Harvard and the London School of Economics.
In 1976, the Kentucky Colonels (based in Louisville) folded after not joining the NBA at the time that the ABA (of which the Colonels were a part of) merged with the NBA. Over thirty years later, the city is ripe for another professional basketball team, potentially bearing the same name.
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In fact, the highest-ranking career public affairs officers in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps are Colonels, while the Navy at least has traditionally enjoyed one 1-star admiral leading its community. (Not surprisingly, the Navy enjoys disproportionately more press coverage of its aircraft carriers, fleet weeks, Blue Angels air shows and the spotlight in Hollywood relative to other services).
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