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However, he did conclude the father-of-three was "on occasions treated and spoken to by his chain of command in a way that caused him distress".

While L/Cpl Mongan never made an official complaint about bullying Ms Norton believed his chain of command "should have been capable of identifying that and dealing with it".

The directive had come from the Pentagon, and filtered down through her chain of command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

In the past ten days, intense Israeli strikes have inflicted more damage on Iran's chain of command and military hardware than its eight-year war with Iraq, which still casts a long shadow across Iranian society.

In a surprise attack in the dead of night, Israel took out several of Iran’s top military chain of command.