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 ).

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

He finished the war as a major general, commanding a full division, and at 25 was the youngest major general in the history of the U.S. Army.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

Another topic concerns how soldiers ' lives are put at risk by their commanding officers who seem unaware of the trauma of their charges.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

It settled on a location north of Oakland along the foot of the Contra Costa Range ( later called the Berkeley Hills ) astride Strawberry Creek, at an elevation about above the bay, commanding a fantastic view of the Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate.

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

Flattering his former commanding officer, General Matthew Arbuckle, Birch named the site " Fort Arbuckle.

Among other items, their report indicated a " high, commanding position " along the river within the current boundaries of Jackson County that in 1808 became Fort Osage.

At one point during the 1970s, because of its reputation as a speed trap, the commanding general of Fort Hood declared Nolanville off-limits to all military personnel.

Sitting Bull had his young son Crow Foot surrender his rifle to the commanding officer of Fort Buford.

He also served as deputy commanding general at Fort Bliss, Texas.

Fort Richmond was a square work 95 across, with flanking bastions at two diagonally opposite angles, commanding the bridge and the river on both sides.

He led the successful assault in the Battle of Fort Fisher ( commanding the 2nd Division, XXIV Corps ), accompanying his men into the formidable coastal fortress as most of his staff were shot down by Confederate snipers.

Soon after the firing on Fort Sumter, Hunter was promoted to colonel of the 6th U. S. Cavalry, but three days later ( May 17, 1861 ), his political connection to the Lincoln administration bore fruit and he was appointed the fourth-ranking brigadier general of volunteers, commanding a brigade in the Department of Washington.

Col. Zachary Taylor, who later became the 12th U. S. President, was the commanding officer at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War of 1832.

* Zachary Taylor 12th President of the United States, was the commanding officer of Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War of 1832.

* Maj. General Eugene Stillions-Former commanding general of Army's Fort Lee, Virginia

Col. Chesnut considered this reply to be too conditional and wrote a reply, which he handed to Anderson at 3: 20 a. m .: " Sir: by authority of Brigadier General Beauregard, commanding the Provisional Forces of the Confederate States, we have the honor to notify you that he will open fire of his batteries on Fort Sumter in one hour from this time.

As a major, he commanded Kelly Field, Texas, from October 5, 1920, to February 1921, served at Fort Sam Houston as air officer of the Eighth Corps Area until November 1921, and was commanding officer of the 1st Pursuit Group, first at Ellington Field, Texas, and later at Selfridge Field, Michigan, until September 24, 1924.

Just days after Fort Sumter surrendered, Rosecrans offered his services to Ohio Governor William Dennison, who assigned him as a volunteer aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, the general commanding all Ohio volunteer forces at the beginning of the war.

Colonel William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the 509th, contacted General Roger M. Ramey of the Eighth Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, and Ramey ordered the object be flown to Fort Worth Army Air Field.

He did manage to do a more credible job on the construction of Fort Donelson, which was sited on dry ground, commanding the river.

Despairing of a peaceful settlement, on November 27, Superintendent Odeneal requested Major John Green, commanding officer at Fort Klamath, to furnish sufficient troops to compel Captain Jack to move to the reservation.

On November 28 Captain James Jackson, commanding 40 troops, left Fort Klamath for Captain Jack's camp on Lost River.

After Black Kettle and his band resettled, the commanding officer changed at Fort Lyon to one who was an ally of Chivington.

While commanding a reconnaissance patrol from Fort Mason on July 20, 1857, Hood sustained one of the many wounds that marked his lifetime in military service — an arrow through his left hand during action against the Comanches at Devil's River, Texas.

Still in place today, the Fort Otonaha complex has commanding views.

Short commanded the 1st Division at Fort Hamilton, New York, from 1938-1940, before commanding the 4th Army Corps and the 1st Army Corps.

* Saturday August 14-Though opposed to attacking any British fort, Montcalm, at the head of 3, 100 regulars, Canadians and Indians, captures Fort Oswego ,-a success attributable, mainly, to his intercepting a message to General Webb, commanding 2, 000 men in the vicinity.