"Commander, where are your shoes?" "I forgot to wear them," the little nine-year-old "commander" replied.
We asked our company commander where the enemy was, since we could not see any and therefore did not know where to shoot.
Who is their commander, where do the hold drills, what are the bylaws of the will regulated militia they are a part of?
Hence, when the decision to annex Carthage and Macedonia had been made in principle (149 bc), a permanent court (the quaestio repetundarum) was established at Rome to hear complaints against former commanders and, where necessary, to assure repayment of illegal exactions.
The American Special Operations officers, who were dispatched to Yemen this month, are also advising Yemeni commanders when and where to deploy their troops.
According to the rebel commander, "Even where you are sitting, there is oil".
His skeptical commander asks where those ships are heading — and Pluskat yells, "Straight at me!" We're well inland, so no issues of storm surge.
"You hear things," he said, "about who's a good commander, about where you want to be".
