In the DS9 episode " Q-Less ", Q at one point goads Commander Benjamin Sisko into a bare-knuckle boxing match, all the while belittling and insulting him.

In 2370, Jem ' Hadar troops annihilated numerous Bajoran and Federation colonies and ships in the Gamma Quadrant and captured Commander Sisko, as the Dominion demanded the Federation stay on their side of the " anomaly ".

In 2369, when Commander ( later Captain ) Benjamin Sisko was assigned command of DS9, one of his instructions was to prepare Bajor for full membership into the Federation ( pilot episode: " Emissary ").

Along with Commander Sisko, Quark was also among the first to encounter the genetically engineered soldiers of the Dominion, the Jem ' Hadar.

Sisko served aboard the USS Okinawa under Captain Leyton, who saw command potential in the young officer ; Leyton promoted Sisko to Lieutenant Commander and made him his executive officer.

Curzon had been a friend and mentor to station Commander Benjamin Sisko, and Jadzia and Sisko continue this friendship despite the change in circumstances.

In " Emissary ", the pilot episode, the United Federation of Planets dispatches Commander Benjamin Sisko to take command of the space station Deep Space Nine.

The Dominion's Jem ' Hadar shock troops capture Commander Sisko, Quark and an alien named Eris, who is later identified as a double agent and one of the Vorta, the Dominion's negotiators and administrators.

In the two-part season opener, " The Search ", Commander Sisko returns from Starfleet Headquarters on Earth with a Defiant-class prototype starship, the USS Defiant.

It was necessary that the character of Ezri avoid being a carbon copy of Jadzia, just as it was necessary for Commander Benjamin Sisko not to be a copy of James T. Kirk.

In the early episodes of the show after Cardassia withdrew from Bajor, the recently-ranked Major Kira, now at age 26, became an influential figure in Bajor's reconstruction and the politics of the region, due to her assignment to Deep Space Nine, and her closeness to Benjamin Sisko then a full Commander in Starfleet, whom the Bajorans believed to be an emissary from the Bajoran Prophets.

Commander Benjamin Sisko is assigned by Starfleet as station commander of " Deep Space Nine " in orbit of Bajor, previously used by the Cardassian Union during its occupation of the planet, now repurposed to help Bajor to enter into the Federation.

After going through the Ferengi coming of age rite, he requests an apprenticeship under Commander, later Captain, Benjamin Sisko in order to attend Starfleet Academy (" Heart of Stone ").

Commander Benjamin Sisko helps the Cardassians capture the ship and its crew on the condition that the Defiant be returned to Starfleet and that Tom Riker not be executed.

Commander Sisko orders the runabout to be held in a tractor-beam.

Starfleet sends Lieutenant Commander Calvin Hudson, stationed in the demilitarized zone along the Cardassian border and an old friend of both Sisko and Dax, to the station to investigate the possibility of retaliatory attacks.

Brooks is best known in popular culture for his role as Commander — and later Captain — Benjamin Sisko on the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999.

Brooks won the right to play Commander Benjamin Sisko by beating 100 other actors from all racial backgrounds to become the first African-American captain to lead a Star Trek series.

Commander Sisko has returned from Earth in the newly commissioned USS Defiant.

Sisko introduces two new officers: a Romulan sub-commander, there to supervise the proper use of the cloaking device, and a Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington, from Starfleet Security.

With three Jem ' Hadar ships also on course to intercept, Commander Sisko makes the hard decision to keep the Defiant cloaked and leave his two officers to their fate.

After a bomb is detonated in the school, Commander Sisko is forced to seek help from Vedek Bareil, a Bajoran spiritual leader who has a different ideology than Winn.

While observing the peaceful Ba ' ku people on their planet, Lieutenant Commander Data ( on secondment to the duck blind mission there ) appears to malfunction, revealing the hidden presence of the joint Federation and Son ' a task force to the Ba ' ku.

Phibunsongkhram, a World War II hero of Thailand, the Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in 1941 had signed a formal treaty of alliance between the two Buddhist countries of Thailand and Japan in the divine presence of the Emerald Buddha in the wat.

However, the presence of paratroopers of the US 101st Airborne Division near the Vire estuary, led General Kraiss, the Commander of the 352nd division, to perceive this threat as more important and ordered the reserve to this location.

The RAF presence on Ascension is backed up by United States Air Force personnel, who contribute a similar number of service personnel to ensure the effective running of the station, under the command of Captain Eduard Rodriguez, who is responsible to the RAF Station Commander.

Under the direction of former Commander of Navy, Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan, the navy's presence in East Pakistan was tripled.

At noon on Wednesday, 30 March 1910, at N Street, Annapolis, Maryland, in the home of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Willard H. Brownson, ( Superintendent U. S. Naval Academy, 1902 – 1905 ) and in the presence of a small company of naval officers and friends Lieutenant Commander Thomas Charles Hart, USN, was married to Ms. Caroline Brownson, daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Brownson.

Naval Station San Diego was realigned under Commander, Navy Region Southwest and became one in a triad of metropolitan Navy bases that now make up the bulk of the metro area Navy ’ s presence.

When directed, I MEF deploys and is employed as a Marine Air Ground Task Force ( MAGTF ) in support of Combatant Commander ( COCOM ) requirements for contingency response or Major Theater War ; with appropriate augmentation, serves as the core element of a Joint Task Force ( JTF ); prepares and deploys combat ready MAGTF ’ s to support COCOM presence and crisis response ; and supports service and COCOM initiatives as required.

While most of Rohilkhand was annexed, the Rohilla State of Rampur was established by Nawab Faizullah Khan on 7 October 1774 in the presence of British Commander Colonel Champion, and remained a pliant state under British protection thereafter.

In 1877, the army was redeployed from Alaska to the Nez Perce War, and no administration was present until 1879, when the U. S. Navy established a presence at Sitka under Commander Lester A. Beardslee.

An armed Baltar was transported dangerously into Commander Adama's direct presence by Count Iblis ' own power.

Farnsworth then called up Commander Yamaguchi in Lewis ' presence and demanded money from the officer.

On 27 May 2011, the Blue Angels announced that Commander Dave Koss, the squadron's Commanding Officer, would be stepping down.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

In December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower — not Marshall — would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

He declined the royal honour of Commander of the British Empire in 2000, and turned down a knighthood in 2003, stating: " I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that.

Hall has frequently commented that if he could obtain the rights to Commander Keen, he would immediately develop another Keen title.

The Romulan Commander Tebok explained that the Romulans had decided to concentrate on their own internal affairs for the past fifty years and said " We are back ," indicating that Romulans would again be active in galactic affairs.

Aside from a ritualistic chant in " The Sontaran Strategem "/" The Poison Sky ", they are never seen to engage in any activity that would be considered recreation, though a few offhand comments by Commander Skorr in " The Poison Sky " suggest they do consider hunting a sport ( according to their creator Robert Holmes, Sontarans do have a highly developed artistic culture, but have put it on hold for the duration of the war, while the opening chapter of the novelisation of The Time Warrior, based on Holmes ' incomplete draft, refers to Linx listening to the Sontaran anthem while his spaceship is in flight ).

Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, Commander in Chief of the High Seas Fleet, pressed for all-out U-boat war, convinced that a high rate of shipping losses would force Britain to seek an early peace before the United States could react effectively.

He would ultimately rise to the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

It was assumed that Marshall would become the Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord, but Roosevelt selected Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander.

John Romero was later contacted by Scott Miller of Apogee, who, after seeing some of id's work, advanced the team $ 2, 000 for the development of Commander Keen, starting a profitable business relationship that would last until id Software self-published Doom.

Patton expected that the Theater Commander would keep fuel and supplies flowing to support successful advances.

During this conflict, Deep Space Nine Commander Benjamin Sisko's superior explicitly cited the Prime Directive, and ordered him to evacuate all Starfleet personnel from the station, as the situation, i. e. a conflict as to what form the Bajoran government would take, was deemed internal to Bajor, and the Federation, it was felt, had no business influencing the Bajorans ' decision in this matter.

The novel was originally a screenplay written in 1956 for producer Henry Morgenthau III for what would have been a television show entitled Commander Jamaica.

Another fraction led by Commander Wolfgang Wegener argued that because of superior British shipbuilding capacity that Germany could never hope to build a “ balanced fleet ” capable of winning the Entscheidungsschlacht, and that as such, the best use of German naval strength was to build a fleet of cruisers and submarines that would wage a guerre de course (“ war of the chase ”, a strategy of seeking to destroy the British Merchant Marine instead of the Navy ).

The German historian Jost Dülffer wrote that Raeder would have been better off in preparing the Z Plan with following the advice of Commander Hellmuth Heye who had advocated in a 1938 paper a guerre-de-course strategy of Kreuzerkrieg ( cruiser war ) in which groups of Panzerschiffe and submarines would attack British convoys or Karl Dönitz who also advocated a guerre-de-course strategy of using " wolf-packs " of submarines to attack British commerence.

The series would have included several new characters, such as Commander Willard " Will " Decker, the Executive Officer, Lieutenant Ilia, and the Vulcan Lieutenant Xon.

A Defense Ministry was created which would be in charge of the three military branches although officially the President of Portugal would be the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1952, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1960, an award which was partly for her charity work, largely unnoticed, which she carried on until her death, often for small and rather obscure charities rather than the grand ones which would have given her more publicity.

The Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force would be Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham ; his deputy was Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who would plan the ground effort.