Sentence examples for is commandant from inspiring English sources

Hla Maung Shwe, a businessman whose brother is commandant of the National Defense University, told me, "In the Army for twenty-nine years, my brother had one chance at exposure — a trip to Thailand for three days".

The table at which the British prosecuting attorneys sit is spectacular in a manner that has offered Colonel Burton C. Andrus, the much beloved cavalry officer who is commandant of the prison and in charge of security, one of his few gratifications.

On October 9, 1901, Sebree was promoted to captain and received orders to travel to American Samoa to take command of the and to be commandant of the United States Naval Station Tutuila.

At the opening of World War II, he was commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, and he later commanded the 82nd and 28th infantry divisions.

Promoted to flag rank in 1928, he was Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard from 1928 to 1930, commanded Battleship Division Two the Scouting Fleet from June to November 1930, and was Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief United States Fleet.

He was Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard from 1928 to 1930, and commanded Battleship Division Two (BatDiv2) of the Scouting Fleet from June to November 1930.

Matthew C. Perry was commandant for two years starting in 1841.

The White House announced its intention to nominate Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen to be commandant of the United States Coast Guard.

Nearly 24,000 of them were deported from the notorious Drancy transit camp outside Paris, where Brunner was commandant from June 1943 to August 1944.

Adm. Willard J. Smith, who was commandant of the Coast Guard from 1966 to 1970, died on April 1 at a nursing home in Atlantic Beach, Fla.

In fact, the terms of office in the 19th century seemed to run rather short: Perry's successor, Joshua Sands, was commandant for only a year.