Lt.Col.Mark Ahrens is on the command staff of the 56th Rescue Squadron at Bagram.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command, whose jurisdiction includes Iraq, the director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs.

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Staff sergeants typically command groups of six to eight soldiers.

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In pursuit of ever closer union, Mr Delors and his staff set up ad hoc groups, bypassed chains of command and outsourced tasks to whoever could get them done.

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