commander
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Gen. Benjamin Watson, commander of the Third Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, ordered all American military activity halted for two days of on-base training in standards and discipline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
C: Maybe we should expect more from someone serving as president and commander in chief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Chris Pearson, city commander for Nottinghamshire Police, said the arrests were made "very quickly" after officers were called to the scene.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
One pro-government militia commander fighting in Tigray told the BBC that Eritrean soldiers were involved on the front lines.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
You could label it however you wanted to, but if the daughter of the first ever female commander in chief didn’t make it through, I would be a big fat failure.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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These tools can help commanders by automatically identifying enemy vehicles from drone feeds or tracking ammunition expenditure to predict resupply needs, Matthaidess said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
In his most draconian move yet, the Pentagon polygraphed some 50 high-ranking military officers and civilian officials on the Joint Staff, which coordinates operations, policy and war plans with combatant commanders worldwide.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Self said she had set out to put an ordinary contemporary Londoner on a site more usually associated with statues of monarchs and military commanders.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Top fire commanders decided not to deploy roughly 1,000 extra firefighters and dozens of engines in advance of the fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would arrange truces to exchange prisoners.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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