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 ).

He assumed duties again at Camp Meade, Maryland, commanding a battalion of tanks, where he remained until 1922.

Bouquet was commanding officer of the 1st battalion, and with his fellow battalion commanders, set about creating units that were better suited to warfare in the forests and lakes of northeast America.

His commanding officer had been his contemporary at Eton ; after him and the second-in-command, Captain Hogg was the third-oldest officer in the battalion.

Rusk was coached in football by William " Monk " Younger and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order Sigma chapter, becoming a Cadet Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps battalion.

A United States Marine Corps battalion includes the battalion headquarters, consisting of the commanding officer ( usually a lieutenant colonel, sometimes a colonel ), an executive officer ( the second-in-command, usually a major ), the sergeant major, and the executive staff ( A-1 through A-8 ).

The captain commanding the left-wing company of the Grenadiers, however, felt this order to be foolish and instead ordered his company to form a right angle with the rest of the battalion which thus now assumed an ' L ' shape, with the base of the ' L ' pointing back down to the river.

When the United States Army integrates with Air Force assets, it typically is at the theater or corps level, with a general commanding, while at the division level it will integrate with Army aviation, which can be organized as organic at the battalion level.

Generally, divisions are garrisoned together and share the same installations: thus, in divisional administration, a battalion commanding officer is just another officer in a chain of command.

In the British regimental system the tactical regiment or battalion is the basic functional unit and its commanding officer more autonomous than in continental systems.

Divisional and brigade commanders generally do not immerse themselves in the day-to-day functioning of a battalion – they can replace the commanding officer but will not micro-manage the unit.

Chavasse joined the battalion on 2 June 1913 and was welcomed by Lieutenant-Colonel W. Nicholl, the commanding officer.

During the final stages of the Battle of the Somme, when commanding a battalion as a temporary lieutenant-colonel, he so distinguished himself in the capture of Beaucourt village that he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

When the commanding officer of the battalion arrived at the battalion rendezvous point at 01: 20 he found only thirty paratroopers and a small group of sappers with a Jeep and trailer.

The commanding officer therefore decided to send a small force to demolish the bridges at Bures and lead the rest of the battalion to a crossroad north of Troarn where it would await more reinforcements before it attacked Troarn itself.

Another commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Saunders, was also killed early in the battle but his battalion, Anson, was more successful, managing to capture the " Green Line ".

Between 08: 15 and 08: 55 hostile planes flew over attacking with machine guns, but by 08: 30 when the higher ground was clear, the leading battalion of one infantry brigade were only from their main objective ; the commanding height of Ali Muntar.

is a staff officer, who assists the commanding officer of a regiment, battalion or garrison in the details of regimental, garrison or similar duty.

Marine Commander Robacio, commanding the Marine battalion, spoke to British journalists after the war and said, At about seven o ' clock I received the order to withdraw prior to a surrender.

During the fighting, most of the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment were killed or captured during a stubborn resistance during the Battle of the Imjin River that saw the commanding officer — Lieutenant Colonel James Carne — awarded the Victoria Cross after his battalion was surrounded.

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.

The commanding officer of a battalion ( or squadron of cavalry ), a lieutenant colonel, is the battalion commander.

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

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

In July, after commanding the only successful front in the disastrous Russian offensive of June, 1917, he became Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government's armed forces.

At the vote, he became deadlocked against Pat Morton and Askin asked his former commanding officer Murray Robson to take the leadership instead.

Boromir's great stamina and physical strength, together with a forceful and commanding personality, made him a widely-admired commander in Gondor's army: he was made Captain of the White Tower, and quickly became Captain-General, also bearing the title High Warden of the White Tower.

The process sped up under José Remón, who became the Police's commandant ( commanding officer ) in 1947.

In 1463 he was forced to submit to Pius II, who left him only Rimini and little more ; Roberto Malatesta, his son ( 1482 ), under pope Paul II nearly lost his state but under Sixtus IV became the commanding officer of the pontifical army against Ferdinand of Naples.

On March 1941, del Valle became the commanding officer of the 11th Marine Regiment, ( artillery ).

Rohan was not executed ( as were leaders of rebellions later in Richelieu's tenure ); in fact, he later became a commanding officer in the French army.

Breckinridge entered the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War as a brigadier general on November 2, 1861 and on April 14, 1862 became a major general, originally commanding the 1st Kentucky Brigade.

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.

On 28 October 1797 Brock purchased the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and became acting commanding officer of the regiment, assuming substantive command on 22 March 1798 with the retirement of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Keppel.

Beauregard continued commanding the defenses of Petersburg in the early days of the siege, but with the loss of the Weldon Railroad in the Battle of Globe Tavern ( August 18 – 21 ), he was criticized for not attacking more forcefully and he became dissatisfied with the command arrangements under Lee.

He named the camp for his former commanding officer Captain Braxton Bragg, who later became a General in the Army of the Confederacy.

The 22nd Bomb Wing became operational on 1 May 1949 and the 1st Fighter Wing was attached to it with both wings sharing the same commanding officer.

He became the first baronet in New England for commanding a militia which defeated the French in 1745 at the Siege of Louisbourg.

In 1941, he became a lieutenant general and commanding general of the Army Ground Forces.

On January 22, 1936, became commanding general of the Philippine Department until 1938.

The winners were the commanding general of the Battle of New Orleans, Major General Andrew Jackson, who became president and the Americans who basked in a victory over a much more powerful nation.

He went west in search of employment and became treasurer of the Illinois Central Railroad, where he worked for, and became friendly with, one of his future commanding officers, George B. McClellan.

In 1925, Hayashi became the commanding Officer of the IJA 2nd Infantry Brigade.

Promoted to rear-admiral in 1910, he became Rear Admiral commanding the First Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet.

Alexander Macomb was promoted to Major General and became commanding general of the United States Army in 1828.