Posted on 03/17/2009 6:59:43 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior administration official says President Barack Obama has chosen retired Air Force Gen. J. Scott Gration to be a special envoy to war-wracked Sudan.
Gration is a close personal friend of Obama and has considerable experience on African issues.
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The List, ping
Did he pay his taxes??????
“a close personal friend of Obama”
I dont think I’ve read or heard anyone use that phrase before
Three Five Zero Zero
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In the meantime, “God bless the dress.”
Gration grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his parents worked as missionaries; during the Congo Crisis in the early 1960s, his family was evacuated three times and became refugees.
In 1980, he worked for two years as an F-5 instructor in Kenya,
In 2006, he traveled to Africa on a five-nation, fifteen-day, fact-finding tour, accompanying Senator Barack Obama as an "African expert".[4] He later endorsed Obama's presidential campaign, citing that Obama had the "judgment, wisdom, courage, experience, and leadership capability that we desperately need"
Thought he was in the running for the NASA Admin job, how does one go from NASA to Sudan?
Maybe he sees the writing on the wall. Obama would love to kill NASA.
so that makes them “close personal friends”
Grations sounds like an axxwipe- I remember reading that he's the one who sent letters to some Bush pentagon appointees firing them- rather than going through the liaison whose job it was to do so
Then when criticized, told the people fired they should consider themselves lucky since the obamites were firing first the most competent people
really
sounds like a perfect liberal democrat kind of military general
Three guesses who the drama queen campaign staffer was, and the first two don't count.....
Wonder if they’re gonna discuss strategy with Sudan on how to exterminate the rest of those pesky Christians.
His ribbons are out of alignment.
A trained eye and a good catch. Maybe he needs to do the "Top Gun" tooth brush head cleaning, before heading to Africa.
That's why I love pictures, as folks like you see stuff I never would notice. Thanks a bunch.
Enjoy the KC Plaza. What a fun area. I really like working in KC and wish I could get that gig going again.
Kansas City, assuming I picked up your handle correctly, is such a great city.
A group I belong to is having a Reunion there some time in the summer of 2010 and I can't wait. I plan to buy gallons of Grant's BBQ sauce, too.
Bless you for your service. The flying "gas stations" make our defense work, offense, too, of course.
Thank you again.
Good eye; bad assumption.
The variation of of wearing two ribbons aligned to the person’s left when the lapel might overlap them is allowed.
AFI36-2903
http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/afi36-2903.pdf
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