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Officials said Hokanson has been working from home, and led meetings with adjutants general around the country on Thursday.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021

“He addressed it early on, but obviously he’s not out of the woods yet,” Walker said, comparing their situations while exiting a NGA reception for state adjutants general that Christie skipped.

From Time • Feb. 23, 2014

Soothingly he assured the adjutants general that the trimming-down, as well as the anticipated 10% cut in U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, in 1947 citizen groups sprang up in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and California to agitate among their state adjutants general for liberalization of the National Guard's racial policy.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.

The National Guard Bureau supported voluntary integration, and its chiefs tried in 1962 and 1963 to prod state adjutants general into taking action on their own account.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.