Thursday and enter the craft as its first commander.
On August 20, several military units in Virginia were consolidated into his department and he immediately formed the Army of the Potomac, with himself as its first commander.
On February 17 , 1621 the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life.
Galland appointed Oberst Johannes Steinhoff as its first Geschwaderkommodore (wing commander).
In the U.S., Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on May 21 formally announced the appointment of Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency NSAas, as the first commander of the newly established U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM).
NASA was allowed to make key decisions about the station, including the choice of an American as the first commander, despite Russia's greater experience with long-term space flight, he said.
The Montreal front office, decimated by the transaction, is now staffed by Major League Baseball employees; this qualifies the 'Spos' new skipper, Frank Robinson, as the first commander of a baseball protectorate.
William M. Shepherd, a retired astronaut and a retired captain in the Navy who served as the first commander aboard the International Space Station, said Navy experience provided long-term expedition training, with the kind of independent, flexible style of operation that prepared astronauts for long-duration missions aboard the station and in future planned voyages to the Moon and Mars.
He pioneered strategic bombardment of both Germany and Japan, as commander of the first B-17 Flying Fortress combat wing in Europe, and as the first commander of the B-29 force in the Marianas.
She was the first ship named for the city of Portland, Maine, and sponsored by the daughter of Ralph D. Brooks of Portland, and with Captain Herbert F. Leary as her first commander.
Though he played a fundamental role in the development of U.S. air power strategy, he is perhaps better known as the first commander of Air Transport Command the man who guided and expanded that organization throughout World War II.
