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    His First Command is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy action film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian and Gavin Gordon...
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  • fights to save his career after being saddled with a group of misfit seamen who have been brought together as the crew of his first command, USS Stingray...
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    fourth in the United States Naval Academy class of 1901. He received his first command in 1914, of the destroyer USS Terry in the occupation of Veracruz...
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    The Primeiro Comando da Capital ("Capital's First Command", Portuguese pronunciation: [pɾiˈmejɾu koˈmɐ̃du da kapiˈtaw], PCC) is a Brazilian organized...
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    Confederate Army of Northern Virginia as part of the Army of the Potomac. His first command was a cavalry brigade under Major General John Pope. He distinguished...
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    the post-war Reichswehr during the Weimar Republic. Bock was given his first command post in 1935, playing a key role in the Anschluss, the annexation...
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    of his mother. When he was 11 years old, Farragut served in the War of 1812 under the command of his adoptive father. He received his first command in...
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    that his father established during his reign, taking his first command of Egyptian forces when he was merely a teenager. In the final year of his life...
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    well as serving as executive officer of USS Montpelier (SSN-765). His first command assignment was as commanding officer of USS Jefferson City (SSN-759)...
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    Always. Facebook. Retrieved February 6, 2014. Lt. Col. Hal Moore in his first command portrait as the CO of 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry (later re-designated:...
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    was a Royal Navy officer. His first command was largely spent off the coast of Spain, which was then in the midst of the First Carlist War. As commanding...
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    gained his first command, that of an infantry regiment, before becoming military governor of Marseille. A number of brigade and regional commands followed...
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  • feigning injury. After Iofur's defeat, Iorek is proclaimed the king, and his first command is that the bears discard their pseudo-human trinkets and tear down...
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    quickly and received his first command in 1754. At the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 he was promoted to captain and given a command on the Jamaica Station...
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    sometimes just called The Shepherd, is a Christian literary work of the late first half of the second century, considered a valuable book by many Christians...
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    United States Naval Academy in 1911. His first assignment was on board the armored cruiser USS California, in command of a turret with twin 8-inch (203 mm)...
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  • and follows the exploits of Jean-Luc Picard during the period of his first command, the USS Stargazer (NCC-2893). Many of the characters originally appeared...
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  • a command position in the Continental Army. Washington tells Hamilton the story of his first command, when his ineptitude led to a massacre of his men...
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    known for his service during World War II. He built a reputation as a "fighting admiral" in the aircraft carrier battles of 1942 and commanded the Allied...
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    Defeat Agency (JIDA). Abrams has commanded at every level from company through divisional command. His first command was of D Company and Headquarters...
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    officers, and after the resumption of his career, received a series of promotions that gave him his first command at the age of 27 and made him a post-captain...
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  • Paratroop Command. The plot tells the story of a by-the-book officer (in his first command in the Pacific war) who is ordered to take his submarine on...
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    passed the Royal Navy's rigorous Submarine Command Course known as The Perisher, and received his first command, the T-class submarine HMS Tireless. Promoted...
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    Santa Clara in Brazil. In the course of this voyage, he carried out his first command when obtaining the surrender of the castle of the Ascensión, located...
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    battlecruiser Kirishima, followed by the destroyer Sugi. He was assigned his first command, the destroyer Kisaragi, on 15 December 1917. Nagumo graduated from...
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  • Command & Conquer (also known by the retronym Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn) is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Westwood...
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    Vice-admiral Sir Richard Bickerton and first served aboard HMS Medway in June 1774, in the Mediterranean. His first command came in March 1779 when he was given...
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    Nazi Germany. He was given his first command of a unit in 1942, and in November 1943 received his most prestigious command as the commander of the 1st...
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    initially in the Mediterranean, and had been promoted to his first command by 1794. He saw action with his uncle Lord Hotham's fleet at the Battle of Hyères...
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  • performance. When he returns to his inn, his letter of promotion to master and commander awaits him. He is given his first command: a fourteen-gun brig-rigged...
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