Possible Clues:

• Attached to a military unit, as a journalist
• Like some war correspondents
• Implanted
• Became fixed in the rose garden perhaps
• Firmly implanted
• Became fixed
• Like aleph in the central black squares of this puzzle's grid
• Like some journalists
• Settled to live as a theologian, bounded by eastern sea
• Inserted as an integral part, journalist with a military unit during a conflict, say