He was the first Marine Corps Commandant to serve full time on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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 county was officially organized on January 2, 1835, and is named for Amos Stoddard, the first American Civil Commandant of Upper Louisiana.

He is the first Commandant in nearly 40 years to have not served in the Vietnam War.

The area was first explored by European colonists in 1826, when Captain Patrick Logan, Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, sailed up the Brisbane River and discovered large deposits of limestone and other minerals.

Major P. Copland-Crawford, Vice-Consul of the Benin District, made the first attempt, Mr. Locke, the Vice-Consul Assistant, made a second one and the third one was made by Captain Arthur Maling, the Commandant of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force detachment based in Sapele.

He also respects the tough-talking, cigar-chomping Colonel " Bear " Berrineau ( based on Thomas Nugent " The Boo " Courvoisie, a former Commandant at The Citadel ) who asks the senior cadet McLean to look out for the Institute's first black cadet, Tom Pearce.

and took the post of Commandant of the Imperial Defence College for its first course since 1939.

In May 1998, Loy became the twenty first Commandant of the Coast Guard, serving in that post until 2002.

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.

Major-General David Fraser, former Commandant of the Canadian Forces College in Toronto and the first Canadian commander of the Multi-National Brigade ( Regional Command ( South )) in Afghanistan, was designated as the first commander of the newly reactivated 1st Canadian Division.

Vandegrift later served as the 18th Commandant of the Marine Corps, and was the first U. S. Marine to hold the rank of four-star general while on active duty.

The first Commandant of the BALTDEFCOL, the Danish Brigadier General M. H. Clemmesen ( Danish Army ), retired from his position in December 2004.

In May 2005, the first Commandant of BALTDEFCOL was awarded with the St Germain Gold Medal of the Danish Military Society, the citation also mentioning his initiative and work with the establishment and running of the college.

The first Commandant of the college was Brigadier General William Bridges, who later died on a hospital ship after being wounded by a sniper on the shores of Gallipoli.

The first Commandant was Colonel ( later Major-General ) William Throsby Bridges, who was killed at Gallipoli.

The post of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps was established in 1957 as the senior enlisted advisor to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the first such post in any of the five branches of the United States Armed Forces.

General Sir John Anderson GCB, KCB DSO ( 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards ) was appointed as the first Colonel Commandant and the first regimental commander was a WW2 veteran, Brigadier Logan Scott-Bowden CBE DSO OBE MC & Bar.

Then called Wrights River, Major Archibald Clunes Innes, Commandant of Port Macquarie Penal Settlement, sent the first government gang of Australian red cedar ( Toona ciliata ) cutters to work here in 1827.

The first Commandant was Colonel ( then Major ) Michael Ralph DeCordova, M. B. E., who evolved the organization, rules and regulations and also designed its badge.

Esteves returned to the island and was named the first official Commandant of the Guard.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.