Sentence examples for command of the marine from inspiring English sources

David Holahan, second in command of the Marine unit in Najaf.

David Holahan, second in command of the Marine battalion in Najaf.

David Holahan, second-in-command of the Marine unit involved, and nearly all were killed.

In command of the 3,000 U.S. Marines set to land on Tulagi and the nearby islands of Florida, Gavutu, and Tanambogo was U.S. Brigadier General William H. Rupertus on the transport ship.

Although Curtis was personally opposed to British possession of Gibraltar, he took command of a marine unit during the siege, and in the attack by Spanish gunboats and floating batteries in September 1782, Curtis took his men into the harbour in small boats to engage the enemy.

They quickly established an austere command post in preparation for the arrival of the Marine CH-53s and the ground security force.

Matt Ritchie, commanding officer of the last Marine battery in charge of the area, told me.

Michael McAllister, chief of the marine response division in the New York command -- where 700 of the 4,000 high-interest vessels nationwide were boarded since Sept. 11 -- the number of ships boarded has been sharply reduced.

The central Imperial Fleet totalled some 19,600 oarsmen and 4,000 marines under the command of the droungarios of the basilikon plōimon.

In 1899 Dodds was appointed inspector general of the marine infantry and soon after was given command of the 20th (colonial) army corps.

Captain LaRue, a Philadelphia native and a veteran of World War II merchant marine operations in the Atlantic, remained in command of the Meredith Victory until it was decommissioned in 1952.