Three years later, married with a young daughter in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he decided to bring his family back to New York to take an administrative post, commandant of cadets, at the Maritime College.
As a result, only one duplex of the five planned officers quarters (four duplexes and post commandant's house) was built by 1844, and the intended enlisted barracks were not completed.
The post commander, Commandant Peter Marron -- the rank is equivalent to major -- ushered his visitors into the shelter of the outpost, where soldiers served coffee.
General Miller toured Iraq's prisons last summer but did not take command of them until April, after leaving his post as commandant of the American prison for Qaeda and Afghan war prisoners at Guantánamo.
A 1933 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy, he was the first aviator to have held the post of commandant.
In 1904 the governor general of Algeria, Célestin Jonnart, obtained for Lyautey the post of commandant of the subdivision of Aïn Sefra.
Bourgmont had in fact been in trouble with the French colonial authorities since 1706, when he deserted his post as commandant of Fort Detroit after poorly handling an attack by the Ottawa that resulted in thirty-one deaths.
The Grand Commandant, whose title was changed to Grand Marshal in 119 BC before reverting to Grand Commandant in 51 AD, was the irregularly posted commander of the military and then regent during the Western Han period.
Gen. James L. Jones, who is leaving his post as Marine Corps commandant to become commander of all American forces in Europe, said earlier this week that 65,000 to 75,000 marines would be involved in any military action against Iraq.
His position as commandant, the most senior post in the Coast Guard, lends Admiral Allen a gravitas that officials say should help streamline the federal response, which has been criticized as too slow.
On 26 June he removed Wäckerle from his post as camp commandant and replaced him with a close associate, Theodor Eicke – who, ironically, he had to release from a mental asylum where he had been placed by a political rival.
