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 ).

The centre column, under Major General Semyakin, was divided into two wings: Semyakin himself, commanding the left wing, was to lead his troops south from Chorgun before moving against Canrobert's Hill and No. 1 redoubt ; Major General Levutsky, commanding the right wing of the centre column, was tasked to assault No. 2 redoubt farther to the west.

On January 28, 1918, while still commanding No. 3 Canadian General Hospital ( McGill ) at Boulogne, McCrae died of pneumonia with " extensive pneumococcus meningitis ".

No one will ever know for sure why the commanding general ordered a wholesale slaughter of the garrison.

Apart from the men from No. 6 Troop which had been wounded in their landing craft, the commanding officer, Peter Young, found that his command was largely intact.

Shortly after this, No. 3 Commando's commanding officer, Peter Young, was promoted to colonel and left to take command of the 3rd Commando Brigade in Burma.

Lieutenant Colonel Lister left to form No. 10 ( Inter-Allied ) Commando and Major Vaughan became the temporary commanding officer.

During this period, Major Frost was introduced to Commander F. N. Cook of the Royal Australian Navy who would be commanding the naval force intended to evacuate the company at the completion of the raid, as well as to the party of thirty-two officers and men from No. 12 Commando who would remain in the landing craft and cover the company as it withdrew from the beach.

In the North African campaign, although a Flight Sergeant, he periodically led his unit, No. 260 Squadron, RAF, into battle, a function normally reserved for an officer ; in fact during one flying operation his wingman ( i. e., subordinate ) was the United States Army Air Force lieutenant-colonel commanding the U. S. 57th Fighter Group.

# No. 224 Group RAF ( commanding officer Air Commodore Alexander Gray ) supporting the Indian XV Corps.

* Command of all pilots, airplanes, and searchlights devoted to the defense of London from air attack is consolidated under a single commander – Major T. C. Higgins, the commanding officer of the Royal Flying Corpss No. 19 Reserve Squadron at Hounslow – for the first time.

It was commanded by Squadron Leader D. Roberts, formerly commanding officer of No. 617 Squadron.

No longer a lieutenant commanding a precinct detective squad, Kojak had been promoted to inspector and put in charge of the NYPD's city-wide Major Crimes Squad.

The first day of 1917 saw Tedder promoted to major and appointed officer commanding No. 70 Squadron RFC.

Tedder was appointed officer commanding No. 67 Squadron at RAF Shawbury on 25 June 1917 and became commander of the School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping in Egypt the following year.

During the few years of its existence, No. 11 / 18 Group only had two air officers commanding.

Its initial flying unit was No. 3 ( Army Cooperation ) Squadron, operating Airco DH. 9 light bombers and Royal Aircraft Factory S. E. 5 fighters, and for the next decade the commanding officer of No. 3 Squadron was also in charge of the base.

In December 1897, Bernadou went to the Norfolk Navy Yard where he put ( Torpedo Boat No. 5 ) into commission on the 29th as her first commanding officer.

Upon reporting to the commanding officer of ( Gunboat No. 8 ), he received orders to take Winslow into the bay at Cardenas and scout for mines.

On 2 March 1945, near Meiktila, Burma, No. 18602 Naik Fazal Din was commanding a section during a company attack on a Japanese bunkered position.

In December 1916 he became commanding officer of No 1 Stores Depot at Kidbroke.

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.

But Morgan evidently reported matters of intelligence much more important to his commanding general.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

In a growing number of American homes, marriage counselors report, the wife is taking a commanding role in sexual relationships.

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.

Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

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.

Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.

The Cuttle Cart II was a success by homebrew standards, selling out both production runs and commanding high prices on eBay.

It was the most important center of trade in the whole empire ; and its primacy as an emporium of ideas was more commanding than that of Rome or Constantinople, Antioch or Marseilles.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

Brazil is currently commanding a multinational U. N. stabilization force in Haiti, the MINUSTAH.

In 1931 Montgomery became lieutenant-colonel commanding the 1st Battalion of The Royal Warwickshire Regiment and saw service in Palestine and India.