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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Primeiro Comando da Capital ("Capital's First Command", Portuguese pronunciation: [pɾiˈmejɾu koˈmɐ̃du da kapiˈtaw], PCC) is a Brazilian organized...
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  • Revolutionary Wars while serving in the West Indies with Sir John Jervis. His first command was a fireship, though he was also temporary commander of a 74-gun...
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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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    the naval ranks to his first commands during the War of the Austrian Succession. A fortunate encounter while in his first command brought him a valuable...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • commander, ambitious in his first command, indifferent to the morale of his men, and bad-tempered. On 11 November 1942, a month into her first war patrol under...
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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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    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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    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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  • in the Siege of Toulon, before being given his first command, the 14-gun brig-sloop HMS Speedy. The command was short-lived, and Speedy was chased down...
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  • First Command Financial Planning, Inc. is a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory...
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    Napoleonic Wars. Rapid promotion followed and when he was 21 he received his first command, the 28-gun sloop HMS Brazen, and, in the War of 1812 between the...
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    Jachmann received his first command, the corvette SMS Amazone; through the 1850s and early 1860s, he held several other commands, including the frigates...
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    received his first command in 1692, when he took over the colonelcy of Jonathan Foulkes's Regiment on the latter's death. On assuming command the regiment...
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  • acquired from his cousin Sir Thomas Strickland of Sizergh. He received his first command in 1665, and the following year he commanded the 48-gun Santa...
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