Sentence examples for command air from inspiring English sources

The basic pattern of unit organization, in descending order, was established as follows: command, air force, air division, wing, group, squadron, and flight.

Up to 16 players can take part in an online multiplayer mode, as you command air, armor, infantry and support units.

He went on to command air bases at Rathmines, Canberra and Townsville during the 1950s and 60s.

Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he returned to Australia in 1942 to command air bases in Canberra and Melbourne.

Early in World War II Kesselring commanded air fleets in Poland (September 1939) and France (May June 1940) and during the Battle of Britain (1940 41).

During World War II he commanded air forces in the invasions of Poland and France, the Battle of Britain and Operation Barbarossa.

Hal M. Hornburg Langley, Va., Oct. 28, 2004 The writer is commander, Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base.

During the subsequent seven-month Italo-Ethiopian War, the Italian command used air power and poison gas to separate, flank, and destroy Haile Selassie's poorly equipped armies.

Sperrle went on to command all air forces in North Africa during General Erwin Rommel's operations with the Afrika Korps there.

As the aircraft meandered through the skies, its fuel supply dwindling, the military coup took place, and army officers took command of air traffic control.

American and British forces attacked the standard targets: command posts, air defenses, aircraft, electrical plants and terrorist training bases in bombing and cruise missile attacks, which Pentagon officials indicated could last a week or more.