At the Pentagon, Mr. Bush faces pressure from the uniformed leaders of the armed services to immediately increase spending.

But the Pentagon's uniformed leaders sought and won more time to devise their plan to carry out the mission.

There's the overbearing, obnoxious, humorless uniformed leader of the volunteers, whose husband is exempt from military service because he is doing what is deemed essential work: reading radio news reports.

Please discuss your view of the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior uniformed military leaders with regard to the secretary of defense and the president.

The stocky, uniformed native leader shook his head.

A senior military officer said the allegations - and the implications raised by them - had rocked the Marine Corps and the Navy, stunning their civilian and uniformed leaders.

FOR this and other reasons, the overwhelming majority of the nation's uniformed leaders oppose the idea of reviving the draft on its face.

The uniformed leaders say today's military is better educated, better trained and better motivated than any conscripted force ever was or could be again.

The occasion was a memorial service held by the couple's family and attended by the civilian and uniformed leaders of the Air Force.

The Chief Scout holds the highest authority in the SSA and grants warrants and awards to uniformed adult leaders and commissioners who are recommended by the Association Headquarters.