亚洲网紅露点

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chairborne

[ chair-bawrn, -bohrn ]

adjective

  1. (of military, especially Air Force, personnel) having a desk job rather than a field or combat assignment.


chairborne

/ 藞迟蕛蓻蓹藢产蓴藧苍 /

adjective

  1. informal.
    having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of chairborne1

1940鈥45; blend of chair and airborne
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鈥淥ur next conversation 鈥 鈥楾he Digital World: Killing Espionage and Saving Intelligence?鈥 鈥 will take place June 16th between Sue Gordon, former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Ellen McCarthy, former director of the State Department鈥檚 Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the successor to the OSS Research and Analysis Branch - its 鈥榗hairborne division鈥 鈥 and the oldest civilian component of the intelligence community,鈥 James Pink, founder of the OSS Society, advises Inside the Beltway.

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And not like any of this BS remote-controlled bombing where we only admit to it two weeks later, after photos surface of some remote-control jockey from the 38th Chairborne precision-striking a Yemeni funeral.

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The Pentagon admits that three divisions are being created by using formerly chairborne soldiers, but denies that they are intended for any such specific duty.

General Lionel McGarr, who many critics think was too chairborne and conventional-minded to deal with the hit-and-run tactics of the Communist Viet Cong insurgents.

His chairborne specialties: contract termination, the Navy's rejuvenated inspection system, the new Office of Naval Research, and the important new Interdepartmental Committee on Atomic Energy.

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