General Mario Buscemi, who led the last deployment of the army in Italian towns, to tackle the Mafia in the 1990s, recalled that he had 20, 000 men just for Sicily.

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But having the flexibility to have the other three brigades on a deployment cycle gives us, and gives General Petraeus, great flexibility.

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Returning to Iraq for his second deployment in May 2006, Gen Odierno assumed the mantle of commanding general of the multi-national corps in Baghdad.

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General Mills used SAP CRM 7.0 along with the Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) in its deployment, which enabled 200 bakery and food service salespeople to access customer data in the field using their iPads, said Kerry Gustafson, the IS manager at General Mills in charge of the CRM rollout.

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And so it is that General Joseph Ralston, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been presenting lawmakers with charts showing the deployment of warplanes around the world and the threat they represent to American security.

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