Current NASCAR President Mike Helton ( left ) being presented a Commandant of the Coast Guard | Commandant Challenge coin | Coin by Admiral Thomas H. Collins ( right ) in 2005.

The Duchess in the uniform of the Commandant of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force | WAAF.

The French M1917 Browning machine gun | Browning Machine Gun being manned by two crew members wearing gas mask s. They are on board the French sloop FFS COMMANDANT DUBOC ( British Navy designation for FFNL aviso Commandant Duboc F743 ) at Plymouth.

Military beret | Military use of beret ( Commandant Soutiras, Officer of the French Chasseurs alpins )

The request came about when Ellis first submitted it to his ' first ' of his chain-of-command, Brigadier General Logan Feland, whose approval was sine qua non before it even reached the desks of Major Generals Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps | Asst.

Commandant Wendell C. Neville and Commandant of the Marine Corps | Commandant John A. Lejeune.

File: Soutiras. jpg | Commandant Soutiras, Officer of the Chasseurs alpins

Commandant of the Marine Corps | Commandant James T. Conway leads a unit run in celebration of the United States Marine Corps birthday ball | Marine Corps birthday.

File: US Navy 071108-N-5549O-097 Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway speaks with members of the United States Marine Corps Band during a ceremony in celebration of the 232nd Marine Corps birthday held at the Pentagon. jpg | The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway, speaking with members of the Marine Band during a ceremony in celebration of the 232nd Marine Corps birthday held at The Pentagon, 2007.

Image: Commandant Ducuing 061030-N-5555T-019. jpg | Inspections at sea are often carried out by fusilliers marins

Image: Commandant des armes à cheval. png | Cavalry

As with the other joint chiefs, the Commandant is an administrative position and has no operational command authority over United States Marine Corps forces.

As stated in the U. S. Code, the Commandant shall preside over the Headquarters, Marine Corps, transmit the plans and recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, to the Secretary and advise the Secretary with regard to such plans and recommendations, after approval of the plans or recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, by the Secretary, act as the agent of the Secretary in carrying them into effect, exercise supervision, consistent with the authority assigned to commanders of unified or specified combatant commands under chapter 6 of this title, over such of the members and organizations of the Marine Corps and the Navy as the Secretary determines, perform the duties prescribed for him by section 171 of this title and other provisions of law and perform such other military duties, not otherwise assigned by law, as are assigned to him by the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Navy.

At around 10 p. m. he was discovered by Peter Lozgachev, the Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo, who entered his bedroom to check up on him and recalled a horrifying scene of Stalin lying on his back on the floor of his room beside his bed wearing pyjama bottoms and an undershirt with his clothes soaked in stale urine.

* To All Who These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know Ye, that in consequence of propositions of peace, or cessation of hostilities, being submitted to me, as Commandant of the California Battalion of the United States forces, which have so far been acceded to by me as to cause me to appoint a board of commissioners to confer with a similar board appointed by the Californians, and it requiring a little time to close the negotiations ; it is agreed upon and ordered by me that an entire cessation of hostilities shall take place until to-morrow afternoon ( January 13 ), and that the said Californians be permitted to bring in their wounded to the mission of San Fernando, where, also, if they choose, they can move their camp to facilitate said negotiations.

De Gaulle officially promulgated the Groupe de Chasse GC 3 Normandie on 1 September 1942, with Commandant Pouliquen in command.

In 1940 he killed the Commandant of the German garrison in Narvik with a single shot from a distance of more than a mile.

In 1777, with the creation of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas, the province was removed from the purview of the Viceroy and placed solely on the Commandant General.

On 6 July the UN observers had their first casualty with the death of the French Observer Commandant Rene Labarriere, he was wounded near the Afoula area and later died in the Jewish Hospital at Afoula.

The Commandant of the Royal Palaces is mainly in charge, in close cooperation with the Chief of Protocol, of the logistic support of activities and the maintenance and cleaning of the Palaces, Castles and Residences.

The name Marine Commandos met with much controversy within the Marine Corps leading Commandant Thomas J. Holcomb to state, " the term ' Marine ' is sufficient to indicate a man ready for duty at any time, and the injection of a special name, such as commando, would be undesirable and superfluous.

Eventually it becomes clear that the use of the machine, and its associated process of justice where the accused is always instantly found guilty and the law he has broken is inscribed on his body before ultimately killing him, has fallen out of favor with the current Commandant.

Four ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Sterett in honor of Master Commandant Andrew Sterett ( 1778 – 1807 ), who served during the Quasi-War with France and the Barbary Wars.

He spent his leisure time devising with Philip Christison more up-to-date theories of logistics, staff duties and tactical handling, only to be reprimanded by Lord Gort, the Commandant, for taking things too fast.

Following the end of the Boer War, Trenchard decided to apply for service in the West African Frontier Force and was granted the position of Deputy Commandant of the Southern Nigeria Regiment with the promise that he was entitled to lead all regimental expeditions.

He was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order in 1906 and was Commandant with the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel from 1908 onwards.

On October 22, 2010, Conway turned the position of Commandant over to James F. Amos, his Assistant Commandant, at a ceremony at Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C., Defense secretary Robert Gates presented Conway with his third Defense Distinguished Service Medal during the change-in-command.

Colonel Ernst-Günther Baade was the German Commandant Messina Straits with Fortress Commander powers including control over infantry, artillery, anti-aircraft, engineer and construction, transport and administration units as well as German naval transport headquarters.

On 28 April 1945, the day before the surrender, Camp Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss had left the Dachau camp, along with most of the regular guards and administrators in the camp.

Dong also instigated Lü Bu to kill his foster father and Imperial Commandant of Capital Guards, Ding Yuan, when the latter disagreed on his proposal to replace Emperor Shao with a younger Liu Xie.

The current Special Commandant ( Chief Officer ) is Ian Miller MBE who was the first Special to ever be given permission by the Home Office to serve with two police forces simultaneously.

On 1 September, he was promoted to colonel, with his seniority backdated to 1 February 1939, and became Commandant of the Small Arms School.

Although the Corps of Cadets is supervised directly by the Commandant of Cadets ( a Coast Guard officer with the rank of captain ), the academy operates on the concept of " the Corps leading the Corps.

Deputy Commandant Major Gustav Simoleit, a professor of history, geography and ethnology before the war, spoke several languages, including English, Russian, Polish, and Czech.

During the War of the Polish Succession he already had the rank of a Field Marshal Lieutenant, and he was an Interim Commandant of the Imperial Army in 1734 in the defence of Grevenberg against the French led by Bellisle.

On January 17, 1941, almost 11 months before the U. S. entered World War II, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations asked the Commandant of the 13th Naval District to find a location for the re-arming and refueling of Navy patrol planes operating in defense of Puget Sound, should such defense be necessary.

The recent history of OSINT began in 1988 when General Alfred M. Gray, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps, called for a redirection of US intelligence away from the collapsing Soviet Union and toward non-state actors and Third World zones of instability.

This consisted of the World War 1 Era battleships Provence and Bretagne, the modern battleships ( or battlecruisers ) Dunkerque and Strasbourg, the seaplane tender Commandant Teste and six destroyers under the command of Admiral Marcel-Bruno Gensoul.

" In the Rob Zombie animated film, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, Paulsen voices the characters " El Gato " and " Commandant Hess ", among some others.

* The Haunted World of El Superbeasto – El Gato and Commandant Hess

Jack Lewis a former U. S. Marine veteran of World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam War and editor of Gun World magazine met the then Commandant of the Marine Corps Paul X. Kelley.

He served the French military as engineer officer and was killed in battle a few months before the end of World War I ; his discovery was published posthumously by his fellow officer Commandant Benoît in the " Bulletin Géodésique ".

By August 29, 1916, Ellis was promoted to Major, a week before United States ' involvement in World War I. Commandant Barnett persuaded Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels for the participation of his Marines of 5th Marines to join General John J. Pershing in the American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ).

* Brigadier General George Nugent, Commandant of the Duke of York's Royal Military School 1913-1914, commanded the 5th London Infantry Brigade in World War I.

When the Corps ' first Commandant Air Commodore Edward Masterman CB CBE AFC RAF ( R ’ td ) had stood down in April 1936, Air Commodore Alfred Warrington-Morris CB CMG OBE AFC MiD RAF ( R ’ td ) replaced him and took control of the Observer Corps during the important period immediately prior to the Second World War.

A distant cousin, Major General George Barnett ( also raised in Boscobel ), was Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps during World War I.

During the First World War, Commandant was used as a title by officers commanding Defence Rifle Association units, also known as Burgher Commandoes.

During the First World War, he served in France from 1914-1917 as Camp Commandant and ADC to General Allenby and subsequently in Palestine as Allenby's Military Secretary.

As Commandant of the Command and General Staff College from April 1939 to July 1940, McNair initiated changes that prepared the College's graduates to meet the upcoming challenges of World War II.

Following World War I, Middleton served at the United States Army Infantry School, the Command and General Staff School, the Army War College, and as Commandant of Cadets at LSU.

A veteran of World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, he was the 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

He was Commandant during the U. S. involvement in World War I.

The second daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she served for thirty years in the WRAF, where she worked in intelligence during World War II and by the time of her retirement she had attained the rank of Air Commandant, the highest rank in the Women's Royal Air Force.

The officer commanding the attack, Commandant Louis Bossut, was killed ; a large monument there commemorates all French tank crewmen who died in World War I.

** Col. Sidney Mashbir, Commandant of Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, Military Intelligence Service during World War II.

Like the Army, the Royal Marines adopted the appointment of Brigadier in 1928, but the two grades of Colonel Commandant persisted at least as far as World War II.

General Louis Hugh Wilson, Jr. ( February 11, 1920 – June 21, 2005 ) was a World War II recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Guam, and 26th Commandant of the Marine Corps.