Sentence examples for former commandant from inspiring English sources

Gen. James L. Jones, a retired former commandant of the Marines and supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has been mentioned as an out-of-the-box choice for Senator Barack Obama.

Then Josef Kramer, former commandant of Auschwitz, was appointed to run the overcrowded camp.

Even one of Mr. Bush's staunchest supporters -- the former commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Charles C. Krulak -- agreed.

BANGKOK — Prosecutors and defense lawyers asked for drastic changes this week in the sentence given to the former commandant of the Khmer Rouge's main prison.

General S. Taco Gilbert III, the former commandant of cadets, denied that he had ignored sexual assault cases or blamed the victims.

Mr. Mountjoy-Pepka accused the academy of acting solely to shift attention from the actions of its former commandant of cadets, Brig.

Others include two former commandants of the Marine Corps, Gen. Charles C. Krulak and Gen. Carl Mundy Jr.; and two former chiefs of the Air Force, Gen. Ronald R. Fogelman and Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, all of whom served under President Clinton.

Her opinion cited a number of briefs from businesses, colleges and, with particular emphasis, two dozen retired senior military officers and former commandants of the service academies, who told the court that affirmative action was essential to maintaining an integrated officer corps.

The commission, whose chairman was the retired Gen. James L. Jones, the former Marine Corps commandant and NATO commander, noted that the Iraqi army was making strides but added that "for the foreseeable future" Iraqi troops would continue to rely on American help with logistics, equipment, training and support from air and artillery units.

For the first three months of its existence the WAAAF had been under the temporary command of Flight Officer Mary Bell, wife of an RAAF group captain and former Australian Commandant of the Women's Air Training Corps, an organisation of female pilots and ground staff that had been formed in 1939 and had been providing voluntary support to the Air Force.

Unfortunately for Mr. Jackson and for Adm. James Loy, the former Coast Guard commandant who now heads the T.S.A., there is no time to celebrate today's milestone.