Governors normally command the Guard in their states, but Guard members deployed overseas in support of a federal mission are under the control of the president.
A lieutenant-colonel, Yacouba Isaac Zida, the second-in-command at the presidential guard, challenged him and won the backing of other senior officers.
He also fights against the first of the four Sū-shin guards of Woo Heishin, Enishi's second-in-command, and defeats him.
Theoden gathers his troops and rides from Meduseld with his nephew, Eomer, as his second-in-command, leaving his niece, Eowyn, to guard the hall.
But while they were all deliberating about the matter in the Forum, a centurion in command of a guard chanced to march directly past the assembly bath to call out to his men: "Halt!
Similarly, Wellington was not usually in command of rear guard actions, during advances or retreats, despite his army engaging in them often.
As a major in the Scots Guards in 1944 he won an immediate MC and became second-in-command of his battalion.
"The guard immediately alerted the detention unit officer in command and the medical officer.
Put on guard by Tikas's prickliness, the officer in command there ordered a machine gun to the top of a hill that overlooked the tents.
Although Zida, the second in command of the presidential guard, could face similar criticism, analysts believe he is more appealing to the younger generation and civil society.
Col Zida was previously second in command of the presidential guard.
