In the week that British troops were deployed at Bagram Airport and politicians deliberate over dispatching thousands more to Afghanistan, it was propitious to meet Burridge and tour the Joint Services and Command Staff College at Shrivenham, in Wiltshire, where he is the commandant.
Brigadier General John Thomson is the Commandant of Cadets, and Brigadier General Timothy Trainor is the Dean of the Academic Board.
He chose Franz Stangl, who had previously been the commandant of the Sobibór extermination camp, to assume command of the camp as Eberl's successor.
The rank of a commandant depends upon the size and importance of his command: in the British Army a colonel commandant is the senior officer of a regiment; in the French Army a commandant is the commanding officer of a battalion, a rank equivalent to major; and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps is a four-star general.
Before taking over the I.S.I., Taj was the commandant of the Pakistani military academy in Abbottabad.
The defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch, was the commandant of the Khmers Rouges' infamous S-21 detention centre.
Baer's first name was Richard; he was thirty-two in the photograph, and he was the commandant of Auschwitz from May , 1944 to January, 1945.
He retired from the Army in 2005 as a sergeant first class, and was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., where he was the commandant of the United States Army Combatives School.
Mr. Nuon Chea is the second major Khmer Rouge figure arrested, seven weeks after the tribunal charged Kaing Guek Eav, 64, known as Duch, who was the commandant of the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, where at least 14,000 people died.
An Eagle reporter returned in August 1872 and wrote that, along with its orchard and vegetable garden, Quarters A had "a look that makes one feel that it must be a pleasant thing to be the commandant".
The house itself is white clapboard Federal style, with a pitched roof and a huge greenhouse; it was the commandant's house from 1806 until 1966, and was declared a city and state landmark in the 60's.
