In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

The post of Chief of the General Staff was only filled again seven years later when Daniel arap Moi moved Lieutenant General Jackson Mulinge from Army Commander to CGS in November 1978.

His last Army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East.

He assumed command of Third ( U. S .) Army / Army Forces Central Command in Atlanta, Ga. in May 1997, a post he held until June 2000 when he was selected for promotion to general and assignment as Commander in Chief, United States Central Command.

He ceded his post as Commander of the Forces to Noriega.

In 1861, Dahlgren's commander at the Navy Yard resigned to join the Confederate navy, and President Abraham Lincoln wanted to name Lieutenant Dahlgren to the post of Commander of the Washington Navy Yard.

He was dismissed again after the German defeat in Normandy in July 1944, but was again recalled as Commander in Chief in the West in September, holding this post until his final dismissal by Hitler in March 1945.

New Zealanders in the RAF itself included pilots, such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere ( whose book Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat ) and leaders such as the World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded No. 11 Group RAF in the Battle of Britain and went on to the air defence of Malta and, in the closing stages of the war, Commonwealth air units under South East Asia Command, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Air Tactical Commander of D-Day.

In December 1944, following the death of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Wilson was relieved as Supreme Commander, promoted field marshal and sent to Washington to be Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission, a post he took up in January 1945.

She was the subject of a portrait by Adam Buck, and a caricature by Isaac Cruikshank ; ten days after the latter's publication, the Duke resigned from his post as Commander of the British Army.

After the Duke of York resigned his post as Commander in Chief of the Army, and before he was later reinstated, he cut all ties to Clarke, paying her a considerable sum to prevent her from publishing letters he had written to her during their relationship.

That summer, Commander Coastal Surveillance Force and his staff moved their headquarters from Saigon to Cam Ranh Bay and set up operational command post to control the Operation Market Time effort.

He resigned his post as Commander in Chief, North America, in 1778, and returned to England, where he was at times active in the defence of the British Isles.

Within the span of a few months in late 1590, he received four military appointments, in rapid succession, with each subsequent post carrying greater responsibility than the last: Commander of the Kosarijin Garrison in Pyeongan province, Commander of the Manpo Garrison, also in Pyeongan province, and the Commander of the Wando Garrison, in Jeolla province, before finally receiving the appointment as Commander of the Left Jeolla Naval District.

No Soviet civilian administration was set up, the USSR simply administered it through the military commander of Porkkala, a post held ( from an unclear date ) until 1 January 1956 to Sergey Ivanovich Kabanov ( 1901 – 1973 ), the former Commander of Hanko naval base.

However, once Tsar Nicholas II assumed the post of Supreme Commander, he put Kuropatkin in charge of the Grenadier Corps in October, 1915.

The post of Supreme Commander South East Asia Command ( SACSEA ) was occupied throughout most of its existence by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten.

In 1943 he became the Deputy Commander of the organization, and served in this post until 1945, when he became Commander in Chief.

As Secretary of Defense Cohen played a large role in directing the United States military actions in Iraq and Kosovo, including the dismissal of Wesley Clark from his post as the NATO Supreme Allied Commander.

United States Readiness Command ( USREDCOM ), with an often misunderstood mission, did not appear to have a viable mission in the post Goldwater-Nichols era, and its Commander in Chief, General James Lindsay, had had some special operations experience.

# Second Grade-Panglima Gemilang Darjah Kinabalu ( post nominal PGDK )( Knight Commander of the Order of Kinabalu ).

SMPTE's Task Force on 3D to the Home produced a report on the issues, challenges and suggested minimum standards for the 3D Home Master that would be distributed after post production to the ingest points of distribution channels for 3D video content.

After the 1997 election, he was briefly a Parliamentary Officer for the NHS Confederation from August to December 1997, before taking up the post as an administrator with the Football Task Force for a year .< ref >

In addition to that post, he commanded Task Force 56 in the Battle of Iwo Jima before returning to the United States in July 1945, to head the Marine Training and Replacement Command at Camp Pendleton, California.

to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;

He moved his field HQ to Burg al Arab, close to the Air Force command post in order better to coordinate combined operations.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba suspended Lieutenant General Martin Shalli from his post as Chief of Defence Force in 2009 over corruption allegations, dating back to the time when Shalli served as Namibia ’ s High Commissioner to Zambia .. During the time of the suspension, Peter Nambundunga acted as Chief.

United States Air Force | U. S. Air Force operator works a switchboard in the underground command post at Strategic Air Command headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska in 1967.

Operational units on the post include the 1st Aviation Brigade and the 110th Aviation Brigade handling Army Aviation training, and the USAF 23d Flying Training Squadron for the training of Air Force helicopter pilots.

As part of the realignment of the post Cold-War Air Force, HQ ACC converted and realigned the 347th Fighter Wing to the 347th Wing ( 347 WG ) on 1 July 1994, with a new mission being that of a force projection, air / land composite wing.

Wheeler Army Airfield, also known as Wheeler Field and formerly as Wheeler Air Force Base, is a United States Army post located in the City & County of Honolulu and in the Wahiawa District of the Island of O ' ahu, Hawaii.

Knowing that Fort Dix was on a base closure list the U. S. Air Force attempted to save the U. S. Army post during 1987.

Adair Village post office closed in 1951, and Adair Air Force Station post office took its place from 1961-1969.

Upon graduation he was assigned to the 2d Airborne Command and Control Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska as an EC-135 pilot, flying the Strategic Air Command's airborne command post code-named “ Looking Glass ”.

The British Forces Cyprus are stationed there to defend them, and they contain a British defence radio listening post, and the only full-fledged Royal Air Force air base in the Mediterranean region ( since Gibraltar does not have any aircraft permanently based there ), called RAF Akrotiri.

The Air Force colonel withdraws from the meeting in disgrace and later resigns from his post.

It is named after Tiran Island located at its inflow, on which the Multinational Force and Observers has an observation post to monitor the compliance of Egypt in maintaining freedom of navigation of the straits as provided under the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.

He was offered a post in the Luftstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee ( East German Air Force ), which he refused:

Direct entry midshipmen continue their normal training and Australian Defence Force Academy ( ADFA ) entry midshipmen post to Canberra to study at the ADFA in their second year in the Navy.

The addition of mobile suits did much to help out the Earth Federation Ground Force, and in the post war years the Ground Force became a force to be feared.

In World War II Manus was the site of an observation post manned by No. 4 Section, ' B ' Platoon, 1st Independent Company, Australian Imperial Force., who also provided medical treatment to the inhabitants.

The post is similar to that of the " Inspector General of the Swedish Navy " () and the " Inspector General of the Swedish Air Force " ().

Bonding for Life: The post World War II story of the elite strike brigade, First Special Service Force ( First Special Service Force Association, 2007 ) ISBN 978-0-9797275-0-4