if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.

The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.

* Adder, a fictional commanding officer in the Advance Wars video games

However, command problems ensued, as the assault guns were considered to be artillery by the Wehrmacht and therefore the assault guns were not under the control of the Panzer unit's commanding officer, reducing unit effectiveness.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

In the center he designated Domitius as the commanding officer.

About a dozen of the crewmen managed to escape the sinking submarine, and Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, ordered the surviving sailors to be summarily executed after they boarded the Nicosian.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

On 24 September 1915, Baralong sank the U-boat, for which her commanding officer at the time, Lieutenant-Commander A. Wilmot-Smith, was later awarded £ 170 prize bounty.

This reorganization permitted the establishment of a commanding officer ( the flight leader ), added support officers, and further redefined the squadron's mission emphasizing the support of recruiting efforts.

Commander Tony Less was the squadron's first official commanding officer.

The rank of commanding officer of the crossbowmen corps was one of the highest positions in any army of this time.

Because of their immobility, most Ballistas were constructed on site following a siege assessment by the commanding military officer.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

He served briefly in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and was an officer in the United States Navy during World War II, briefly commanding two ships, the USS YP-422 and USS PC-815.

In First Contact Worf is initially commanding USS Defiant before he is beamed aboard the Enterprise, while in Insurrection Picard jokes that Worf was late for his bridge shift due to being accustomed to life aboard Deep Space 9.

In the alternate 2390 future in Star Trek: Voyagers " Timeless ", La Forge is a captain and the commanding officer of the USS Challenger, doing his best to stop Harry Kim and Chakotay from altering the time line.

Jeffrey Hunter played Captain Christopher Pike, commanding officer of the USS Enterprise, in the rejected Star Trek television pilot, " The Cage ".

In the seventh-season episode " The Pegasus ", Riker must confront his former commanding officer, Admiral Eric Pressman, over a cover-up related to the destruction of the USS Pegasus.

It was named in honor of Captain James Lawrence ( 1781 – 1813 ), who while commanding the USS Chesapeake in an 1813 battle with the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon, issued his famous command: " Don't give up the ship!

After appointment and an initial cruise as acting Lieutenant commanding USS Ferret, Farragut married Susan Caroline Marchant.

* Tunis Craven ( 1813 – 64 ), commanding officer of the USS Tecumseh, an iron-hulled, single-turret monitor, commissioned in 1864 and sunk in the Battle of Mobile Bay.

Her commanding officer also served as the flagship for TG 88. 3, the Mobile Logistics Group, consisted of: Neosho, equipped with USAF MSQ-1 radar and communication vans, USS Salamonie ( AO-26 ), and assigned destroyers.

The first battle in the Philippine theater was in Manila Bay, where, on May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey, commanding the United States Asiatic Squadron aboard the USS Olympia, in a matter of hours, defeated the Spanish squadron, under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón.

He saw combat during the Quasi-War with France and in the Barbary Wars, commanding the schooner USS Enterprise in both conflicts.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, commanding the USS Enterprise-E, comes to its aid.

His next tour was as commanding officer, USS Parrot ( MSC-197 ).

John Harriman is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe, the commanding officer of the starship USS Enterprise-B.

Provo Wallis commanding the HMS Shannon into Halifax after the Capture of USS Chesapeake

Talbot is most famous for commanding the USS Constitution from 1798 to 1801.

Upon completing his tour of duty as Bradley's aide in March 1951, Beach was named prospective commanding officer of the new USS Trigger ( SS-564 ), then under construction.

Upon commissioning of Trigger II, which was named for the USS Trigger ( SS-237 ) lost during World War II, he became commanding officer of the first submarine to be completed in a new class after World War II.

Hewitt was awarded the Navy Cross commanding the destroyer USS Cummings escorting Atlantic convoys during World War I.

He returned to sea commanding the cruiser USS Indianapolis and transported President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Pan-American Conference at Buenos Aires following the 1936 elections.

Rogers was personally criticized for being overly aggressive by Commander David Carlson, commanding officer of the USS Sides, a second ship that was under the tactical control of Rogers at the time of the incident.

While commanding in Tripoli, Preble masterminded the burning of the USS Philadelphia by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur on February 16, 1804, preventing the captured frigate from falling into enemy hands.

The commanding officer of USS Wainwright directed a final warning ( of a series of warnings ) stating that the Joshan was to " stop your engines, abandon ship, I intend to sink you ".

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

Bonetti played fine for an hour and England went into a commanding 2 – 0 lead, with Peters scoring against the Germans again after Alan Mullery had put the defending champions ahead.

* 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.

* July 13 – First English Civil War – Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.

Instead the NSW Corps, now known as the 102nd Regiment of Foot, was to be recalled to England and replaced with the 73rd Regiment of Foot, whose commanding officer would take over as Governor.

His father managed to obtain the renewed support of the French government in 1744 ; and Charles Edward travelled to France with the sole purpose of commanding a French army, which he would lead in an invasion of England.

Therefore, this particular play can be viewed as a turning point in the history of England as the throne is taken over by a more commanding king in comparison to King Richard II.

Most of the Irish-American officers who landed at Cork, in the expectation of commanding an army against England, were imprisoned ; sporadic disturbances around the country were easily suppressed by the police, army and local militias.

He became the first baronet in New England for commanding a militia which defeated the French in 1745 at the Siege of Louisbourg.

However, his brother Bobby scored twice to give England a commanding lead, before Eusébio scored a late penalty after Charlton had handled a shot on the goal-line.

Cardigan's commanding officer, Lord Lucan, had been recalled in disgrace — largely brought about by the determination of the commander-in-chief, Lord Raglan, to displace blame from himself — and arrived in England only two weeks after his subordinate but, as the officer who had " looked on " ( a pun on his name much exploited by Cardigan ) while the charge had taken place, little regard was given to his version of events.

A brief stop in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations upon his return from England in the spring of 1934 preceded his traveling to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, as prospective commanding officer of the new aircraft carrier Ranger ( CV-4 ).

It was the turning point of his career as England collapsed to 166 for 7, before Tom Graveney 165 and John Murray 112 consolidated, but it still left England a little short of a commanding score until Snow hit eight boundaries in his 59 not out and added 128 with fellow bowler Ken Higgs, who made 63.

After accompanying the division to England, Steele was offered an administrative post as commanding officer of the South-East District.

In June 1942, he went to England as commanding general of II Corps, and the next month moved up to Commanding General, Army Forces European Theater of Operations, promoted to major general on August 17, 1942.

This included the local Red Cow pub which was later renamed the King Canute in reference to the legend of the 11th century Danish king of England commanding the tide to halt with the sea lapping at his feet.

In 1588, when the Spanish Armada threatened England, the 14-year-old Robert joined his father, who was commanding the army at Camp Tilbury, preparing to resist a Spanish invasion.

England noted that she felt " weird " when a commanding officer asked her to do such things as " stand there, give the thumbs up, and smile ".

From 1645 until the end of the Civil War he was in England commanding a regiment in the New Model Army.

In the First Anglo-Dutch War, he served in the navy of the Commonwealth of England, commanding squadrons at the battles of the Kentish Knock ( 1652 ), Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen ( 1653 ).

It stands in a commanding spot on Stag Hill-so named because the Kings of England used to hunt here-and its solid red brick outline is visible for miles around ; it immediately overlooks the University of Surrey.

He returned to England in 1874 as colonel on the staff, commanding the forces at Shorncliffe, and was appointed to command a brigade at Aldershot, with the temporary rank of Brigadier-General, in 1877.

On 4 November 1641 O ' Neill issued a proclamation at Newry and read out a commission from Charles I of England dated 1 October, commanding him to seize: "... all the forts, castles, and places, of strength and defence within the kingdom, except the places, persons, and estates of Our loyal and loving subjects the Scots ; also to arrest and seize the goods, estates, and persons of all the English Protestants, within the said kingdom to Our use.