Gary Berntsen is a former field commander for the CIA who's now written a memoir.

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Mr. GARY BERNTSEN (Former Field Commander, CIA): I was a fire fighter, actually, in a previous career.

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Mr. GARY BERNSTEN (Former Field Commander, CIA): I was a fire fighter, actually, in a previous career.

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Although the deputy told his field commander of the finding, U.N. officials in New York were not informed.

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He has appointed a new defence minister, Kim Kwan-jin, a veteran field commander.

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The division's field commander, Abdel Qader Saleh, told The Wall Street Journal that the four men were given a battlefield trial before they were killed.

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After squabbling between two contenders, the post was taken by Issa Sesay, a young field-commander who seems more pliant than his predecessor.

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Both as a field officer and supreme commander, Grant devised tactics and then whole campaigns that beat a well-led, hard-fighting foe.

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If the commander has a solid, competent PAO that has the experiences needed to operate at that level, he or she is now the subject matter expert in their field (public affairs) where the commander is not.

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