Sentence examples for border guard commander from inspiring English sources

Col. Sher Ahmed Kuchai, the Afghan border guard commander, was showered with glass as the car windows shattered.

He had been serving as a border guard commander, one of many opposition fighters to receive government jobs as part of a peace deal that ended the civil war in 1997.

Benjamin Jones (NYT) GERMANY: WALL GUARD JAILED -- A former East German border guard commander, Walter Schulze, 52, was sentenced to two years and four months in prison by a Berlin court in the shooting deaths of East Germans trying to escape across the Berlin Wall.

After one of the attackers was apprehended, he detonated an explosive belt, killing Saudi General Oudah al-Belawi, the senior border guard commander in the region.

The border guards commander, Turganbek Stambekov, was among those on board, the security service said on its Web site.

The Pentagon estimates that 20,000 Russian troops may now be in Crimea, while the Ukrainian border guards' commander puts the figure at 30,000.

With their control of seaports and multiple land borders, guard commanders have become rich sanctions-busting traders, dabbling in industries from telecoms to banking.

Even the border-guard commander welcomes it.

The influence of his years in the PLA, where he rose from border guard to regimental commander, is evident.

It later emerged that one of the dead soldiers was no ordinary border guard but the commander of Saudi Arabia's northern border forces, Brigadier General Awdah al-Balawi.

About 6,000 soldiers, most of them from East Germany, will become part of the German Federal Border Guard, which now numbers 20,000, the guard's coastal commander, Diethelm Brucker, said in the newspaper Die Welt.