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 ).

Watson was 41 years old, and an Acting Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 2nd / 5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ( now part of The Rifles ) during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Watson of the British army asked his commanding officer, Captain William Freeman for permission to start repairs on the mosque.

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.

Finally, Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps, offered a novel proposal to break the impasse.

Custer, now commanding the 3rd Division, followed Sheridan to the Shenandoah Valley where they defeated the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

It was here that the first blood of the American Revolution was spilled when the commanding officer of the Gaspée, Lt. Dudingston, was shot in his crotch while resisting the taking of his ship.

Subsequently, Vines replaced Lt. Gen. Dan K. McNeill as the commanding general of U. S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

* Lt. Col. Justice M. Chambers ( 1908 – 1982 ), commanding officer of 3rd Battalion 25th Marines ( formerly served in 1st Raider Battalion )

Lt Gen Michael Walker, Commander Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps ( ARRC ) acted as the Land Component Commander for the Operation, commanding from HQ ARRC ( Forward ) based initially in Kiseljak and from late January 1996 from HQ ARRC ( Main ) Ilidža.

The commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, the Grenadier Guards, Lt. Col. Eyre Crabbe, was surprised to find that Cronje had been accompanied on campaign by his wife.

The success of the operation prompted this quote from Lt. Col. Donald E. Downard, commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, 222nd Infantry ( 42nd Infantry Division ) who had witnessed more than 25 months of combat, " I have never seen a more armored unit.

The official report by Lt Moore, the commanding officer at the time, referred to an ‘ attack ’ by Aboriginals armed with spears and indicated that two Aboriginals were killed and an unknown number wounded.

However, its commanding officer, Lt. Col. Reid-Daly, had a poor relationship with many of the Rhodesian Army commanders ;< ref name =" RND "> Godwin, P. & Hancock, I., Rhodesians Never Die – the impact of war and political change on white Rhodesia, 1995, Baobab Books, Harare, Zimbabwe.

There had been no widespread aggression, but if their displeasure spread and escalated, Lt. Moore, the commanding officer at the time, and his dozen or so soldiers, could not be expected to be able to protect the settlement from a mob of such size.

* the commanding officer on the West coast, Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, was not on the Magic intercept list,

The first man into the British upper works was Lt. Col. Francois de Fleury, an aristocrat French engineer commanding a battalion of the 1st Regiment.

Fitz assists the police and the new commanding officer, the younger and better educated-but less experienced-Lt. Monroe Macey, Lt. Fry's replacement, in tracking a serial killer of three women when a police officer becomes a victim.

Lt. Col. Morneault, the commanding officer of the CAR, declared the " rogue commando " unit unfit for service abroad and sought to have it remain in Canada.

# On 29 July 1812, at the start of the War of 1812, Lt. William M. Crane, USN, commanding officer of U. S. brig Nautilus, reported his capture by a British squadron in these words: " the chaseing ship put her helm up hoisted a broad pendant and English colours and ranged under my lee quarter -- unable to resist I was compelled to strike the Flag of the United States.

Elements of General George Patton's Third Army, spearheaded by Lt. Col. Creighton Abrams commanding the 4th Armored Division's 37th Armor Battalion, succeeded in punching through to Bastogne, reaching the lines of the 326th Engineers on the day after the Christmas attack.

During the Siege of Boston, Admiral Graves, on 6 October 1775, ordered Lt. Henry Mowatt, commanding the armed vessel Canceaux, to destroy seaports that were supporting the rebellion.

The first Indian commanding officer of this battalion, Lt Col. ( later Brig.

With the encouragement of their commanding officer, Lt. Stone and Hall approached the Curtiss Flying School in Newport News, Virginia about using aircraft in air-sea rescue operations, and participated in experimental flights in a Curtiss model F flying boat.

A scratch force of 106th Division personnel, in particular the division's 81st Engineer Combat Battalion, was organized and led by the 81st's 28-year-old commanding officer, Lt. Col. Thomas Riggs, in a five-day holding action ( 17 – 21 December ) on a thin ridge line a mile outside St. Vith, against German forces vastly superior in numbers and armament ( only a few hundred combat-green Americans against many thousands of veteran Germans ).

Similarly, in Mad Men, Richard " Dick " Whitman goes to war ( Korea ) and his commanding officer, Lt. Donald " Don " Draper, is killed in an artillery barrage.

* James Carne, British Army – commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, in the Battle of the Imjin River in April 1951, Lt.

* Albert Crahay, Belgian Army – commanding officer of the Belgian UN Battalion in Korea, Lt.