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aide-de-camp

Officer who acts as private secretary to a general, commander in chief, air marshal, or Governor, and would normally accompany them on any duty.

Aides-de-camp are principally concerned with the organization of their superior's official social activities. The officer performing similar duties for a flag officer of the navy is known as the flag lieutenant. Senior officers are frequently appointed ADC to the sovereign.



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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.
1-87 Infantry's split-focus fires and effects cell: urban and rural ... by Armstrong, Nicholas J. / FA Journal
Arvis Owens, aide de camp, Naval Inventory Control Point.
Marine Aviation plants its "boots on the ground" by Wynkoop, Robert W. / Naval Aviation News
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.
Walton Ford. (Reviews: New York) by Schwendener, Martha / Artforum International
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