And one of my favorite quotes in there is from a three star general who has served a lot of time overseas and came to Washington for a tour, and said, you know, you can't go anywhere and find a four star general without his own security detail and entourage.

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Garner retired from the Army in 1997 as a three-star general and entered the private sector defense field.

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Ghalib, a three-star general in the Indonesian military, told TIME that he has found no evidence that his former supreme commander wrongly acquired state assets.

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David Deptula, a retired Air Force three-star general who was deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said the military needs to measure its drone requirements by the amount of data and intelligence needed by troops to accomplish their mission.

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Among them, Richard Myers, who just stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mike DeLong, who was a three-star Marine general deeply involved in planning for the Iraq War.

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The Roundtable featured brief presentations concerning the findings of a blue-ribbon studyU.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of the Benefits and Costs, the study was signed by eleven high-ranking, former U.S. national security officials -- including five retired four-star general officers, three of whom served as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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So Mr Gates announced he would replace the Pentagon's manager in charge of the programme, Major-General David Heinz, a two-star general, with a three-star officer.

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It was particularly noteworthy insofar as it permitted a vigorous exchange of views between three of the authors of the Center study -- former four-star General John Foss (USA, Ret..) , former Under Secretary of State Eugene V.

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