Sentence examples for commander and then from inspiring English sources

He'd had all the right assignments--chief aide to the Marine commandant, Marine division commander and then, in 1997, military aide to Secretary of Defense William Cohen. Butthings soured for General Jones when Donald Rumsfeld took over the Pentagon.Rumsfeld's self-importance and arrogance inflected everything, Jones concluded.

He is generally thought to be too hardline to win even in modern Afghanistan, but like Ghani has teamed up with a popular former militia leader – Ismail Khan, commander and then governor of western Herat – who can command a block vote.

He served, first, as an army tank commander, and then as a transport pilot.

He trained as a tank commander, and then climbed the military hierarchy; he led the Fifty-eighth Army during the Second Chechen War.

Del Ponte received Montgomery's memo as she was preparing to indict Ramush Haradinaj, a former bouncer who joined the K.L.A., rose to commander, and then went on to become the Prime Minister of U.N.-administered Kosovo.

After three years as an instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst (1959-62), he joined 42 Commando, as a company commander and then adjutant, and was sent back to the far east.

Petraeus also served as commander of US central command, and then commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan before retiring from the army.

Mr Taguba blamed a failure in leadership "from the brigade commander on down, lack of discipline, no training whatsoever, and no supervision".But some are looking higher still up the chain of command: the International Committee of the Red Cross complained about abuses repeatedly, first to military commanders and then, in February, to the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Chiarelli and Petraeus served in Iraq during this period, too, first as division commanders and then in more senior posts.

The extensions are approved by company commanders and then forwarded to higher officials, a process that can take several days.

"You enable brigade commanders and then decentralize authority to him to take account of conditions on the ground," the official said.