Adjutant
In the military, an adjutant is a regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. For squadrons, the adjutant is often the officer-in-charge (OIC) of the administrative platoon.
There is a bugle call announcing the adjutant that is still used in military ceremonies today.
An adjutant general is the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the United States Army he is brigadier general. (Among the Jesuits, the adjutant general is one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care).
An adjutant is a species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India, also called the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
