1.   A career Foreign Service officer and Middle East expert, Burns combines boyish charm and good looks with the verbal precision and politesse Christopher values.

2.   A former national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan and career Army officer, Powell had a finely tuned sense of politics.

3.   After the couple divorced, the children were adopted by their stepfather, a career Army officer, and took his name.

4.   Clinton also intends to nominate Nicholas Burns, a career Foreign Service officer and former State Department spokesman, to be ambassador to Greece.

5.   Her father was a career Army officer.

6.   He wanted to be like his father, Nathan Palmer, a career Army officer, who is a retired major.

7.   His father, a sensitive nonconformist who wrote and taught literature, became a career Army officer.

8.   Keyes, the youngest of five children, is the son of a career Army officer who moved the family repeatedly through Italy and the United States.

9.   Laura stayed with her mother, who then married a career Army officer.

10.   Roy, a Bush family friend, was a career Foreign Service officer under presidents of both parties.