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aide-de-camp |
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aide-de-campOfficer on the personal staff of a general, admiral, or other high-ranking commander who acts as a confidential secretary. Today they are usually of junior rank, and their duties are largely social. The term also denotes a high-ranking military officer who acts as an aide to a chief of state. |
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Prior assignments include
Speechwriter to the Commanding General and Deputy Secretary of the
General Staff, Aide de Camp to Deputy Commanding General--Support,
Battalion Fire Direction Officer (FDO), Battery Executive Officer (XO)
and Platoon Leader, in 3-6 Field Artillery and the Company Fire Support
Officer (FSO) for 2-22 IN, 1st BCT, all in the 10th Mountain Division. Arvis
Owens, aide de camp, Naval Inventory Control Point. Dirty Dick Burton's Aide de Camp,
2002, depicts a primate--the common langoor (Presbytis
entellus)--standing in an abandoned nineteenth-century-style camp
(somewhere in the "Orient") clutching a hookah, the
"Dick" Burton referenced actually Sir Richard Burton, a
"gentleman-naturalist" who once invited forty monkeys to his
dinner table so he could learn their language. |
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