adjutant
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- n an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- n large Indian stork with a military gait
- Under him ex-Cadet Busch rose fast, became adjutant to Kundt, then Chief of the General Staff, was aide to Ernst Roehm when that luckless Nazi spent two years in Bolivia after a .
- He appoints his own adjutant general, often a political pal with a sketchy military background.
- Anthony, who joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps, at 19 became the youngest adjutant in the British army.