Sentence examples for Be second in command from inspiring English sources

I was to be second in command at the base.

We have a person who used to be second in command at Sharp.

Another navigator, in his 50's, was called Chapulete, and seemed to be second in command.

In 1975, he was selected to be second in command at the Military Vicariate.

In 1920 he was chosen to be second in command of the newly organized Spanish Foreign Legion, succeeding to full command in 1923.

Burns would be second in command to Bercow if he won the contest, despite having had to apologise in 2010 for remarks aimed at his potential future boss.

The Americans were originally under the command of General Spotswood, Governor of Virginia, who was to be second-in command under Cathcart, however Spotswood died and was replaced by Gooch as commander of the Americans.

2 November 2007: A government air raid kills the Tamil Tigers' political boss, SP Thamilselvan, believed to be second-in-command.

Mayorkas, who has been nominated to be second-in-command at DHS, is under investigation by the agency's inspector general for allegedly providing special treatment for GreenTech.

As the chief representative of the U.S. Navy, he had expected to be second-in-command of the expedition, a position that MacMillan accorded to McDonald.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, a former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a fundamentalist group that sought to turn Egypt into an Islamic state, is said to be second-in-command to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile who is suspected of directing the attacks.