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adjutant

[aj-uh-tuhnt] / ˈædʒ ə tənt /
NOUN
assistant
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She spent 30 years working up the ranks in the Pasadena Police Department, where she became the department’s first Black female sergeant, lieutenant and adjutant to the chief of police, according to her campaign website.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 1, 2024

Gen. Thomas Suelzer was appointed by Abbott to oversee the Texas National Guard and Texas State Guard as the agency’s adjutant general.

From Salon Jan. 24, 2024

Gen. Thomas Carden Jr., Georgia’s adjutant general, underscored those eyewitness accounts as he spoke about Story’s heroism on Monday.

From Seattle Times May 29, 2023

Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the adjutant general of Virginia, said in a statement.

From Washington Times Mar. 21, 2023

An adjutant came around and asked if any of us were from this area and I said I was, and Colonel Parsons brought me into town this morning to show him around.”

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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