Stephan P. Karabin II, who commands Company C, greeted Company K as it arrived.
Craig A. Halstead, who commands Company B, Second Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, which rotates platoons through the post.
Other than Inouye, the one man willing to reflect on racism, then and now, was the only white veteran in the group, Robert Foote, who was sent by the Army to command Company K in 1943.
Promoted to captain in the summer of 1853, Grant was assigned to command Company F, 4th Infantry, at Fort Humboldt in California.
Soriano was then sent to Korea where he commanded Combat Support Company, 1st Battalion, 23d Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division, before he was transferred to command Company A, 3d Battalion, 47th Infantry, 3d Brigade, 9th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington.
For now, Smolyansky may stand alone on this list, but she recognizes that she's hardly unique in business, as a growing number of young women are moving to command companies in the private sector.
Clark commanded C Company, 6th Battalion, 32nd Armor, 194th Armored Brigade, a company composed of wounded soldiers, at Fort Knox.
In the War of 1812 Parris commanded a company of engineers and after the war moved to Boston.
Later he commanded a company of archers during Diego Velásquez's campaign to conquer and pacify Cuba.
In the 1970s his career took him to Northern Ireland, where he commanded a company and earned a mention in dispatches.
