The boat's captain faces federal charges In November, a federal grand jury indicted the boat's captain on 17 counts related to acts of misconduct, negligent or attention to duty.
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Bharara seems to be addressing would-be prosecutors on some pages ("So your inquiry has come to an end") and a wider audience on others ("And this of course is true everywhere in work and life, this attention to duty, detail and mission"), and he doesn't seem to settle into a common register until the second half of the book.
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Timothy Sullivan (1835 – October 6, 1910) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Born in 1835 in Ireland, Sullivan immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the U.S. Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . Acting as a gun captain during battle, Sullivan showed "attention to duty, bravery, and coolness" through various engagements.
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But one wonders if Porter really cared at all. Despite his apparent concern for the welfare of his men and attention to duty, Hamilton was perplexed at the obvious inaction of the cutter, its commanding officer, and even his collector of customs. According to Kern, for the next few years Porter rarely sailed on Active, rather, he let the first mate handle command of the cutter—if she sailed on patrol at all. He did sail to the West Indies with his son, twice in 1796, but not on board his cutter.
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For these actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor on April 3, 1863. Sullivan's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > Served on board the U.S.S. Louisville during various actions of that vessel. > During the engagements of the Louisville, Sullivan served as first captain > of a 9-inch gun and throughout his period of service was "especially > commended for his attention to duty, bravery, and coolness in action." Sullivan died on October 6, 1910, at age 74 or 75 and was buried at Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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The Surveyor-General (Mr. E. A. Counsel) made the presentation, > and in doing so referred, in eulogistic terms, to Mr. Hurst’s career, which > commenced when he entered the office as a boy in 1885. Since that time, the > Surveyor-General said, Mr. Hurst had, by consistent industry and attention > to duty, worked himself from the bottom of the ladder, into his present > honourable position, and not only attained that position, but with it the > goodwill and respect of everybody with whom he had been brought in contact. > (The Surveyor, p.
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In 1898 McIlhenny resigned from the company to serve in the Spanish–American War, joining Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders volunteer cavalry regiment. "[B]y his high qualities and zealous attention to duty," wrote Roosevelt in his memoir of the campaign, McIlhenny "speedily rose to a sergeantcy, and finally won his lieutenancy for gallantry in action."Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders (New York: Da Capo, 1990), pp. 41–42. McIlhenny participated in the Battle of Las Guasimas and the Battle of San Juan Hill and continued to serve despite suffering from measles and malaria.
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International Association of Women Police Excellence in Performance Award is given to an officer who distinguishes herself through superior attention to duty or outstanding investigative effort, which leads to the identification, location, or arrest of a major criminal or criminal activity. Women police officers around the globe compete for the International Association of Women Police performance award. These women officers are considered to be the definitive identification of a near-perfect officer. The annual program is highlighted on their official website,Official website with the period for nominations running from about January through March of a year.
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He visited Spithead in April 1797, during the mutiny there, as part of the committee of conciliation sent by the board. Though professionally Young maintained the official line on the events, privately he appears to have been somewhat sympathetic to the seamen's complaints, and in a letter to Captain Charles Morice Pole remarked that ‘a sad want of energy and of particular attention to duty which the government of large bodies of men requires especially in these times and an absent or indifferent man can produce incalculable mischief’. Consequently, during his tenure at the Admiralty he tried to improve conditions and tighten discipline.
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Cornelius Cronin was born in Detroit, Michigan. He enlisted in the Navy on September 17, 1858. He received the Medal of Honor while serving on the for his "coolness and close attention to duty in looking out for signals and steering the ship in the action in Mobile Bay on the morning and forenoon of August 5, 1864". Appointed mate of the on July 9, 1866, Cronin was warranted acting gunner on November 12, 1875, was transferred to the Retired List August 16, 1898, and continued to serve on board the and the , and at the New York Navy Yard until February 3, 1908.
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However, he had long held an interest in fire safety and, at the end of 1884, he instead became superintendent of the Glasgow Fire Brigade. The brigade expanded significantly under his leadership, with six new fire stations, about ninety additional staff, and much new equipment. The Glasgow Herald state that: "Among the men under his charge he was very popular. He was a strict disciplinarian, insisted on sedulous attention to duty, but he did everything in his power to provide for the comfort of the staff, nor did he neglect to consider the necessity for facilities for healthful exercise, relaxation and amusement in the laying out of the stations which he had erected".
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The Unit Citation is awarded by the District Commander/Commanding Officer (or designee) to commend extraordinary law enforcement performance, attention to duty, contribution to this agency or to the general welfare of the citizens of the City of Baltimore. The criteria for the awarding of this recognition is the same as that for the "Commendation" when a group effort is recognized. The mutual and full participation of all unit members in the cited activity must be explained in detail in order to be considered for this unit distinction. 1968 Riot Ribbon: Only sworn members of the department on duty in the City of Baltimore during the period of civil unrest, 5 April through 14 April 1968, were eligible for this award.
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In 1315 William de Beresford, the chief justice of the common pleas, being suddenly summoned to the king, the business of the court devolved upon Thrikingham and Bacon exclusively. We may conjecture that it was not very promptly or efficiently despatched, for it was but a short time since he had been enjoined to pay a more diligent attention to duty. In 1317 he was summoned with the rest of the judges to parliament at Lincoln, but the invasion of the Scots in that year caused the postponement of the parliament sine die. In 1320 he was placed on a commission to try certain persons charged with debasing and counterfeiting the coinage in the counties of Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, and in 1321 upon another directed to inquire into offences committed by sheriffs and other legal functionaries under colour of their official duties in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Huntingdon.
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