commander
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“Let’s let the commander in chief lead,” Columbia Spectator, Jan. 28, 1987.
From Slate • May 13, 2026
Otherwise it would just be a major coincidence that Rubio and Marine Corps Gen. Francis L. Donovan, commander of Southern Command, posed for a photo in front of a map of Cuba.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Zambada also said two of his bodyguards, one of them a Sinaloa state police commander, have not been “seen or heard from since.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
Gen. Aleksandr Chayko, who led the failed campaign to take Kyiv in early 2022, was promoted to become new commander of the Russian Air Force.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
“Around this time, all kinds of booby-trapped trinkets were being scattered on our airfield,” said Vera Tikhomirova, the 586th Regiment’s deputy commander for political affairs.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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