commander
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“We’ll be here till tomorrow dealing with this blaze,” said Major Issa Hamdoun, a civil defense commander, as he watched his men manhandling the fire hose into the wreckage of the building.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Welkos, the commander, calls it a "very serious weapon".
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Shortly after the Tallet al-Khayat strike, Israel's army said it had "struck a Hezbollah commander in Beirut".
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold, commander of the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Yevdokia Bershanskaya didn’t always go by the book as the commander of the 46th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, but she was good at her job.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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