Sentence examples for rank of command from inspiring English sources

Evelyn Banks, the senior enlisted sailor in the air wing, is the first black woman to reach the rank of command master chief petty officer in an air wing and the ninth black woman to reach the rank in the Navy.

As he rose through the ranks of command over a 37-year career in uniform, Admiral Stavridis also came to be recognized as one of the military's most prolific authors on strategy, operations and tactics.

We are destroying weapons, terror infrastructures, command and control systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, the houses of terrorists, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command… The campaign against Hamas will expand in the coming days, and the price the organization will pay will be very heavy".

Several months after Cape St Vincent, on 20 July, Downman was promoted to the rank of commander and appointed to command the 14-gun brig.

Promoted to the rank of commander on 30 June 1983, he assumed command of the frigate HMS Phoebe.

From there he moved to command the sloop on 27 May 1763, still at the rank of commander.

Robshaw, by the way, was magnificent in the ranks, stripped of command, but at the heart of the gritty and determined defence that followed the try – that is, everything England had to do for the next hour.

He became a captain and regimental supply officer in October, and subsequently, with the rank of major, commanded the 2nd Battalion from January to May 1918, Company F from May to July, and finally the 1st Battalion from July 1918.

But his rank and the chain-of-command dictated that he follow orders.

He entered the rebellious Texas army as a private and rose mercurially to the rank of colonel to command the cavalry at the Battle of San Jacinto.

In 1781, Wodrow was promoted to the military rank of colonel in command of the Hampshire County militia.