Staff sergeant is a rank of non-commissioned officer used in several countries.
The origin of the name is that they were part of the staff of a British army regiment and paid at that level rather than as a member of a battalion or company.
In the Australian Army, the rank of Staff Sergeant is slowly being phased out[citation needed]. It was usually held by the Company Quartermaster Sergeant or the holders of other administrative roles. Staff sergeants are always addressed as "Staff Sergeant" or "Staff", never as "Sergeant" as it degrades their rank. "Chief" is another nickname, usually for those who hold the quartermaster's role. A staff sergeant ranks above Sergeant and below Warrant Officer Class 2. But the rank of Staff Sergeant is still being used by the Australian Army Cadets.
In the Israel Defense Forces, soldiers are promoted from Sergeant to Staff Sergeant (Samál rishón) after 28 months of service for combat soldiers, and 32 months of service for non-combat soldiers, if they performed their duties appropriately during this time. Soldiers who take a commander's course may become staff sergeants earlier (usually after 24 months of service, or one year from becoming a commander). The rank insignia is composed of three clear-blue stripes (as is the rank of sergeant) with an embroided fig leaf, a well-known Jewish biblical motif, in the center of the rank insignia. Staff sergeants get a symbolic pay raise.
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Redneck Carnage is a story about a group of misfits who must join forces for a struggle for survival while seeking to find the cause of a disastrous series of events. In the process they strive to get word to the only entities who can save them and a small town from total annihilation.
Jump start the apocalypse!
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Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in his own nets, but with a serious head wound. Was he murdered? Post-war anti-Japanese sentiments are still running high, and a murder suspect is found in the local Japanese-American community in the form of Kabuo, another fisherman, who had a grudge against Carl's family. Ishmael, the small town's newspaperman, may have the information that would acquit Kabuo, but can he ever put his jilted love for Hatsue (Kazuo's wife) aside?
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, accident, american-flag, amputee, asian-american, attorney, autopsy, baby
First loves last. Forever.
From the director of 'Shine'
Ishmael Chambers: I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.
Arthur Chambers: That's the thing with girls. They grew up and break your heart.
Nels Gudmundsson: It takes a rare thing, a turning point, to free oneself from any obsession. Be it prejudice or hate, or, even love.
Nels Gudmundsson: Accident rules every corner of the universe... except perhaps the chambers of the human heart.
Young Hatsue Imada: Don't be sorry. I'm not.
[first lines]::Sheriff Art Moran: So did any more of you guys see Carl out of ship channel bank last night?::Ishmael Chambers: What do you want to know for?::Sheriff Art Moran: Only to see if somebody talked to him.::Ishmael Chambers: Just went sour on me when the fog rolled. I got the hell out of there.
Judge Fielding: That's quite enough horseplay, Nels. Try and act your age.::Nels Gudmundsson: I think if I did that your honor, I'd be dead. [laughter from the chamber]
Young Hatsue Imada: [snuggling] Do you think this is wrong?::Young Ishmael Chambers: Your friends would. Your dad would kill me.::Young Hatsue Imada: My mom is the problem.::Fujiko Imada: [remembering her mother's voice] Stay away from white boys. Marry one of your own kind, whose heart is strong and gentle.
[last lines]::Hatsue Miyamoto: Ishmael!::Ishmael Chambers: [turning]::Hatsue Miyamoto: Can I hold you now?::Ishmael Chambers: [yes]::Hatsue Miyamoto: [hugging him] I'm so grateful for your gentle heart.
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Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are murdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses and agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery.
Keywords: abuse-of-power, action-hero, ak-47, ambulance, ambush, assassination, bank-account, based-on-novel, behind-enemy-lines, beretta
Truth needs a soldier.
The war of drugs would lead him to the war of power.
Jack Ryan: Said anything yet?::FBI Agent Dan Murray: Yeah. "We're innocent."::Jack Ryan: Till the D.A. offers them a deal.::FBI Agent Dan Murray: He already has. Regular or extra crispy. He was either referring to fried chicken or the electric chair.
Jack Ryan: I didn't sign up for this. This is someone's bullshit political agenda. Who authorized this? Cutter?::Ritter: Cutter couldn't tie his own shoes without permission.::Jack Ryan: If I go down you're coming with me.::Ritter: Wrong again. I have an *autographed get-out-of-jail-free card*! "The President of the United States authorizes Deputy Director of the CIA Robert Ritter to conduct 'Operation Reciprocity' including all necessary funding and support. This action is deemed important to the national security of the United States etcetera, etcetera, etcetera." You don't *have* one of these, do you Jack?::[as Ryan walks away]::Ritter: Gray! The world is gray, Jack!
[Before commencing a covert action]::Ritter: Let me make this very clear: this is your deal, not mine, so unless I have written authorization, this whole thing is over before it starts because I'm not going to be the only one left without a chair when the music stops.
The President: These drug cartels represent a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.
The President: So go down there, establish it.::Jack Ryan: Go down where?::The President: Colombia.::Jack Ryan: Who, me?
[On whether Jack should investigate the growing scandal]::Admiral Greer: You took an oath, if you recall, when you first came to work for me. And I don't mean to the National Security Advisor of the United States, I mean to his boss... and I don't mean the President. You gave your word to his boss: you gave your word to the people of the United States. Your word is who you are.
Captain Ramirez: The chicken is in the pot, over.::Clark: Cook it!
Ritter: [on Cutter's computer] They're in. Congratulation, James, you've got your own little war.
Ritter: Jack, computer theft is a serious crime.::[hangs up the phone]::Jack Ryan: [to himself] So are crimes against the Constitution.
Jack Ryan: You're going to jail, pal!::Ritter: [seeing Ryan holding a piece of paper] What is that? What is it you *think* you have there?::Jack Ryan: You broke the law.::Ritter: You are *such* a Boy Scout! You see everything in black and white!::Jack Ryan: No, no, no! Not black and white Ritter, *right* and *wrong*!
They hunt and stalk their victims. They are the deadly humans...
It's a holiday of JOY! A holiday of FUN!