 Complete the following phrase:  Close allies of Józef Piłsudski, most of the colonels had served as officers in the Polish Legions and Polish Military Organization POW, and in the Polish Army particularly during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920, prior to Piłsudskis 1923 resignation as Chief of the Polish General Staff. They had held key, if not necessarily the highest, military ranks during Piłsudskis 