Sentence examples for command assignments from inspiring English sources

Votel's résumé is bolstered by command assignments in a variety of influential jobs.

Indeed, except for four command assignments, none more than 15 months, General Powell served in the power corridors of Washington from 1969 until he retired in 1993.

A1 Generals May Be Promoted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is considering new top command assignments that would include promoting Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former American commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Pentagon and military officials say.

A non-West Pointer, he had failed during a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1963 and 1964 to get the command assignments necessary for promotion; he spent nearly two of the next four years in subordinate roles with the 11th Brigade in Hawaii, moving with the unit to Vietnam in late 1967 as deputy commander.

Fellows completing AOASF receive credit as a United States Army War College graduate, and typically serve in a follow-on command assignment or work for a three- or four-star general officer as a member of his or her staff.

She has served 20 years on active duty in the U.S. Army in a variety of command and staff assignments, most recently in Baghdad with the 1st Cavalry Division.

He has held numerous command and staff assignments that include platoon, company, battalion, regimental, Marine expeditionary unit, and Marine expeditionary force command.

Arrow stands for assignment command (e.g., a→b means that a is assigned to symbol b); we use it when the equality sign is false from the mathematical point of view or it could lead to a confusion.

To that end, the Army has instituted incentives for officers who choose the program: They will receive preferential consideration for assignments commanding battalions and brigades in Afghanistan.

We often put out work and ask "who will do this?" and someone says "that should be me". Command of an assignment isn't "bossness".

After a variety of postwar assignments, including command of a second submarine named Trigger, Captain Beach served as naval aide to President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957.