Sentence examples for first commandant from inspiring English sources
But this is my first commandant".
Its first commandant, Theodor Eicke, created the organizational structure for the camp.
Mr. Chiang was the academy's first commandant, appointed by Sun Yat-sen, the idealistic firebrand who wanted to build an army that would unite China.
"I have been trying to find out where our first commandant, Elihu Munson, is buried," said Major deFriesse, who is employed at the public works department of Brookfield.
Perhaps the most famous military academy in East Asia, however, was the Whampoa Academy, an army academy set up by the Chinese Kuomintang (Nationalist) leader Sun Yat-sen near Canton in 1924 with Chiang Kai-shek as its first commandant.
Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), who had become a close associate of Sun, was chosen to be the first commandant of the academy, and Liao Zhongkai (Liao Chung-k'ai) became the party representative, or chief political officer.
The second commandant of Treblinka II, Franz Stangl, managed to escape with his wife and children from Austria to Brazil in 1951.
The letter's signatories included Gen Charles Krulak, a retired 4-Star commandant of the Marine Corps, and Major General Michael R Lehnert, the first commanding general of the joint detention task force at Guantanamo.
Margaret D. Klein will be the Naval Academy's first female commandant of midshipmen, serving as No. 2 in the chain of command behind Vice Adm. Rodney P. Rempt.
"Because I'm the first woman commandant, I am highly motivated to do the best job I can," she said.
The tough, wiry, charismatic daughter of a North Carolina sharecropper, Sergeant Major King gained international recognition when she was named the school's first female commandant in 2009.
