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At the end of December, Barnes rejoined the 29th as its commander and Peirce was elevated to brigade command.

The cantonment has a senior military officer in the rank of colonel as its commander and the commander reports to the general officer commanding the Eighty-Second Division.

The New Zealand government authorised the formation of the NZEF for service in the war in support of Great Britain, with Godley, having relinquished his position as commandant of the New Zealand Military Forces to Major General Alfred William Robin, as its commander.

He remained with it until 1980, when he returned to Rescue Company 2, serving as its commander for 14 years.

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On August 26th, Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state, told reporters that America might consider a UN force, so long as its commander was American.

"The president has demonstrated that a black man can competently and effectively lead and manage the country as its commander-in-chief," Morial said.

After serving for several years as the Master of the Ordnance, he was asked by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger to serve as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland as well as its Commander-in-Chief after the Irish Rebellion of 1798 broke out.

The Mobile Group was reinforced and reorganized in early July 1941 as the Mobile Brigade, also known as Brigade Pilfousek after its commander, and it mustered only 27 tanks despite 7 reinforcements because breakdowns had caused 10 tanks to be evacuated back to Slovakia.

Ignoring Chiang Kai-shek's order to dissolve the New Fourth Army, the communist high command named Chen Yi as its new commander and Liu Shaoqi as political commissar.

The first of these, Composite (Heavy Attack) Squadron 5 (VC-5) was formed at Moffett Field, California, on 9 September 1948, with Commander Frederick L. "Dick Ashworthh, who had been weaponeer on the Nagasaki raid, as its acting commander.