Sentence examples for the first commanding from inspiring English sources

The letter's signatories included Gen Charles Krulak, a retired 4-Star commandant of the Marine Corps, and Major General Michael R Lehnert, the first commanding general of the joint detention task force at Guantanamo.

Five years after he sent the letter, Eisenhower became the first commanding general of Nato.

In 1966 he became the first commanding officer of the Atlantic City Police-Community Relation's Unit.

Major General Michael Lehnert, the first commanding officer of Guantánamo, quickly understood the complexities of the situation.

The first commanding general of the Army's Chemical Warfare Service had extolled the "effectiveness and humaneness" of gases: they killed quickly, and kept infrastructure intact.

He became the first commanding officer of the Royal Canadian regiment of infantry (1893) and led a Canadian force in the South African War (1899 1902).

Brown became the third commanding officer of the Regiment after Desert Storm.

Captain Franz von Hipper was the ship's first commanding officer; he took command of the ship the day she was commissioned.

The late Admiral Lent had been the earlier Tritons first commanding officer.

The prime value of that book, characteristically well written by Bishop, is that it is the campaign seen through the eyes of its first commanding officer of the 3 Para battle group, Lt Colonel Tootal.

The regiment's first commanding officer, Meldrum, was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath, a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and awarded the Distinguished Service Order DSOO).