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...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...(FT) Veterans head for politics frontline Marine Corps veteran Dan Ward is one of many veterans hoping to win congressional seats in the November midterm elections....
...The unmanned helicopters supply drops worked so well – they could also fly in bad weather that kept crewed rotorcraft grounded – the Marine Corp was keen to extend their use....
...At the end of April, the company signed a contract worth as much as $598m to supply engines for the US Marine Corps and Air Force’s V-22 tilt rotor aircraft....
...Rolls-Royce, the turbine and engine maker, has signed a contract worth up to $598m to supply engines for the US Marine Corps and Air Force’s V-22 tilt rotor aircraft....
...Rescued from years of not making any significant progress is the civilian tiltrotor, a smaller version of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey flown by the US marines and air force....
...The Supreme Court will rule, not on the merits of the case, known as Dukes v Walmart, but on Walmart’s claim that the class is too broadly constituted, and that the complaints should be brought on a more...
...The military version at least is not that difficult to fly – when I flew the simulator last year at a US Marine Corps air base in North Carolina, I mainly called on my rotary rather than fixed-wing experience...
...Marine Ospreys have been deployed in Afghanistan since November 2009, says Lt Col Robert Freeland, medium-lift requirements officer at Marine Corps headquarters and a V-22 pilot himself....
...“I’ve got a civilian commercial licence to fly any ‘powered lift’ aircraft,” says Lt Col Romin Dasmalchi, commanding officer of the US Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron known as the Fighting Griffins....
...Having just written the Army/ Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, General David Petraeus was sent to Iraq, along with five additional brigades of troops....
...Harich is a lawyer and a former marine from Louisiana who until recently worked as a policy adviser to the governor of West Virginia. He now represents the US State Department in Arghandab....
...Its first deployment in Iraq was free of significant problems, says Mr Kenney, a former Marine helicopter pilot. The V-22 Osprey showed the advantages of its speed, range and noise signature....
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. High hopes Could it be third time lucky for King Win Laurel?...
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