He later served as the Director of the Israel/Palestine Program for the American Friends Service Committee where he gained "extensive on-the-ground experience in Israel/Palestine."

In Assistant Secretary Joseph Shuldiner, former general manager of housing authorities in New York City and Los Angeles, he has an executive with extensive on-the-ground experience.

"Unfortunately, neither Colin Powell nor Condoleezza Rice has had much on-the-ground experience in Africa, and the Rumsfeld group has no interest."

Would a mercenary's on-the-ground experience ever contribute to public debate about our nation's military policy?

But their on-the-ground experience reveals holes in the neat strategies coming from United Nations experts in Geneva and Rome.

Moreira ultimately held McCann posts in eight nations and insisted that team members have on-the-ground experience in the countries where they were helping develop and execute campaigns.

Sandra Feldman, the teachers' union leader, said she wanted a chancellor with on-the-ground experience in the political battlefields of New York.

Not only will this help conserve and protect the sage grouse but young people will have the opportunity to gain on-the-ground experience in natural resources management in Nevada.

"He has on-the-ground experience there," she says, "which I would say is much more valuable than if he had been attending seminars at the Council on Foreign Relations for the last five years."

This overview of the region encompasses his on-the-ground experiences during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq war and the second Palestinian intifada, among other events.