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Lieutenant general (United States)
In the United States Army, the United States Air Force and the United States Marine Corps, lieutenant general (abbreviated Lt Gen in the Air Force, LtGen in the Marine Corps and LTG in the Army) is a three-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-9. Lieutenant general ranks above major general and below general. Lieutenant general is equivalent to the rank of vice admiral in the other uniformed services.
Appointment and tour length
The three-star grade goes hand-in-hand with the position of office to which it is linked, so the rank is temporary. Officers may only achieve three-star grade if they are appointed to positions that require the officer to hold such a rank. Their rank expires with the expiration of their term of office
Some statutory limits under the U.S. Code can be waived in times of national emergency or war.
Modern use
An Army or Marine Corps lieutenant general typically commands a corps-sized unit (20,000 to 45,000 soldiers), while an Air Force lieutenant general commands a large Numbered Air Force consisting of several wings. Additionally, lieutenant generals of all services serve as high-level staff officers at various major command headquarters and The Pentagon, often as the heads of their departments.
After the close of the Second World War, generals were normally promoted permanently to brigadier general and major general, with temporary promotions to lieutenant general and general to fill senior positions as needed. In theory, a general vacates their three or four-star rank at termination of their assignment unless placed in an equal ranking billet. Douglas MacArthur, who served as four-star general and Army Chief of Staff, reverted to two stars after his CoS tour ended but chose to stay on active duty in the United States Army.
The practice of using lieutenant general and general grades as a temporary rank continues, with the President and the Department of Defense creating temporary or indefinite three and four-star assignments, with fixed term of office, with the approval of the Senate. Even with the temporary status, such officers are also almost always granted permanent retirement in the last grade they held with the satisfactory completion of at least two or three years in grade.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:28 PM Thursday, May 22, 2008
Bird Dog, I spilled a cup of coffee today. It just kept falling. I couldn't stop it. I didn't want it to fall. I can't remember ever spilling a cup of coffee before in my life.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/22/08 7:07 AM
Bird Dog, I spilled a cup of coffee today. It just kept falling. I couldn't stop it. I didn't want it to fall. I can't remember ever spilling a cup of coffee before in my life.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/22/08 7:45 AM
I had a dream just before I woke up and I was clearly looking at my oxygen mask that I was wearing in a U.S. military fighter jet and that oxygen mask was starting to crumble apart.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 May 2008 excerpt ends]
[ Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-Nazi the cowardly International Terrorist Organization violently against the United States of America actively instigate insurrection and subversive activity against the United States of America with all Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-Nazi staff partners contributors employees contractors lawyers managers of any capacity as severely treasonous criminal accomplices and that are active unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States that actively make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in the United States and in the Severely Treasonous and Criminally Rebellious State of Washington by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings ]
http://www.livedash.com/transcript/the_andromeda_strain/6120/AETVP/Friday_April_02_2010/242871
The Andromeda Strain
AETVP
01:51:35 (beeping) Confirming-- missile is disarmed.
01:51:44 (Charlene) OH, THANK GOODNESS.
01:51:46 (Tsi) WOW, THAT WAS CLOSE.
01:51:58 Northcom, I'm having some kind of mechanical problem here.
01:52:10 Northcom, this aircraft is not responding.
01:52:12 I cannot control this craft.
01:52:16 Oh, my--there went the visor.
01:52:19 the vi-- I can't--I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
01:52:24 I can't get air. I-I'm losing control here, sir.
01:52:27 I cannot get any air. I need-- Northcom, please come-- the missile is rearmed!
01:52:40 It's disintegrating!
01:52:42 Its almost falling apart!
01:52:44 I have to bail out!
01:52:48 (screaming)
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Description: Crew members aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73) conduct comprehensive firefighting efforts to extinguish a fire.
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080522-N-XXXXX-009 PACIFIC (May 22, 2008) Crew members aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73) conduct comprehensive firefighting efforts to extinguish a fire that spread to several spaces via cableways, creating extreme heat and smoke. The crew was able to contain the fire while limiting shipboard damage and preventing any serious injuries to the crew. The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage are currently under investigation as the ship continues on course for San Diego. U.S. Navy photo (Released)
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080522-N-XXXXX-010 PACIFIC (May 22, 2008) Crew members aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73) conduct comprehensive firefighting efforts to extinguish a fire that spread to several spaces via cableways, creating extreme heat and smoke. The crew was able to contain the fire while limiting shipboard damage and preventing any serious injuries to the crew. The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage are currently under investigation as the ship continues on course for San Diego. U.S. Navy photo (Released)
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"The Andromeda Strain"
Episode #1.1 (2008)
Country Date
USA 26 May 2008
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The Andromeda Strain (TV mini-series 2008)
Episode #1.1 (#1.1)
Benjamin Bratt ... Dr. Jeremy Stone
Workaholic Dr. Jeremy Stone has to initialize the top-secret national emergency plan he devices in a facility also planned by him when a mysterious, viciously rapid disease strikes a Utah backwater, actually after a small meteorite strike. His small team of scientists and specialized military doesn't realize one of them is in league with the infamous general George W. Mancheck, whose top-secret project is somehow entangled with the plague.
Release Date: 26 May 2008 (USA)
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Nazi propaganda
Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
As to the methods to be employed, he explains:
"Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side.
http://www.livedash.com/transcript/the_andromeda_strain/6120/AETVP/Friday_April_02_2010/242871
The Andromeda Strain
02:18:09 Do you believe in time travel?
02:18:11 Sure, as much as I believe in santa claus and the easter bunny, which is to say, I love the idea, but I am dubious about the reality.
02:18:20 But I'm all for it.
02:18:21 For someone like me who's always running late, it would be a godsend.
02:18:25 According to chou, a lorentzian wormhole is theoretically traversable, not only in terms of distance, but in time.
02:18:33 Andromeda comes from the past? the future?
