"I am a director of a society which has been set up to protect the tower," the commandant, Bushire, replied.
Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), who had become a close associate of Sun, was chosen to be the first commandant of the academy, and Liao Zhongkai (Liao Chung-k'ai) became the party representative, or chief political officer.
The film is renowned partly for the rapport shared by aristocratic career officer de Boldieu (Pierre Fresnay) with von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim), the German flying ace who later, in a back and neck brace, becomes the commandant of a nearly impregnable camp.
She was appointed a Commandant of the Legion of Honor in 1987.
A best-seller that was also made into a popular movie, it is told from the point of view of Bruno, a nine-year-old German boy whose life is upended when his father, a Nazi officer, becomes the commandant of Auschwitz.
He returned to the U.S. in March to become Commandant of the 10th Naval District and commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier from 1 May 1947 until 10 October 1950.
Gale was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant general in August 1944, and in January 1945 he became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Service Corps, a position he held until 1954.
While still a major general, Shoup was unexpectedly nominated to become Commandant of the Marine Corps by President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the behest of Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, Jr.. To prepare for this duty he was promoted to lieutenant general on 2 November 1959, and briefly assigned duties as Chief of Staff, Headquarters Marine Corps.
Gen.-select Johnny A. Weida, a 1978 graduate of the academy, to become the new commandant of cadets and acting superintendent.
A year later, he became commandant of Castle Thunder, a former tobacco warehouse that held men considered the lowest of war prisoners — among them Yankee deserters, Union spies, runaway slaves, rebel soldiers accused of crimes and Southerners suspected of disloyalty to the Confederacy.
