aide-de-camp
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The unnamed narrator of “The Sympathizer” is a veteran of two armies: the North Vietnamese whom he served as spy and the South Vietnamese whose uniform he wore as aide-de-camp to a high-ranking general.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
They were called to testify at Police headquarters in Brasilia, along with Bolsonaro's former aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, his father, a retired army general, and another military officer that was a presidential aide.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023
He was aide-de-camp to the ousted leader's father, Omar Bongo, who ruled for almost 42 years until his death in 2009.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
Military Assistance Command in Saigon, where he worked in the late 1960s as an aide-de-camp to Gen. Creighton W. Abrams.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023
It was a foregone conclusion that Washington would be called out of retirement to head the force, but equally predictable that the aging general would delegate actual command to his former aide-de-camp.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Several of his most valuable aides-de-camp, including writing partner Billy Strayhorn and star saxophonist Johnny Hodges, had struck out on their own, and for the only time, the Maestro’s own inspiration seemed to flag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
He also wisely chose as his aides-de-camp a pair of young go-getters, Mike Tamburro and Lou Schwechheimer, both eager to sell pregame tickets and pick up postgame trash to make the venture work.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2015
Immaculate aides-de-camp leaped quickly from the car to help, but the grief-stricken couple shook their heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Cubans doubted the story that his two grown daughters, pistols strapped to their sides, were his aides-de-camp in the field.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colonel von Bourguignon, the aides-de-camp, and Herr von Stielow withdrew.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
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