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Second-in-command

The second-in-command (2i/c or 2IC) is the deputy commander of any British Army or Royal Marines unit, from battalion or regiment downwards.


174th Brigade

174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States), a major subordinate command of the Ohio Army National Guard located in Columbus, Ohio.

3rd Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 3rd Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for three-months service on May 14, 1861 under the command of Colonel John L. Chatfield.

457th

457th Air Expeditionary Group, provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command

Adventure International

The games were written using an in-house adventure creator with text compression and a sophisticated command interpreter running on a BBC Micro and a graphics tool running on an Apricot F1.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

Arjun Ray

He holds a master's degree in Defence Studies from the University of Madras, and he has attended the Higher Command Course and the National Defence Course at the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Asud

They suffered heavy losses from Song resistance when they were under the command of Bayan of the Baarin and Aju.

August von Werder

Promoted general of infantry, and assigned to command the new XIVth Army Corps, Werder defeated the French at Dijon and at Nuits, and, when Charles Denis Bourbaki's army moved forward to relieve Belfort, turned upon him and fought the desperate action of Battle of Villersexel, which enabled him to cover the Germans besieging Belfort.

Augustus Leopold Kuper

In 1864 Kuper was in command of the International fleet at the Shimonoseki Expedition, Japan, the action fought to reopen the Inland Sea and the Straits of Shimonoseki.

Battle of Pentemili beachhead

On the Greek side, the National Guard's High Command had noticed the inability of the 3rd Tactical Group (responsible for Kyrenia sector) to coordinate its forces and eliminate the Turkish beachhead, and gave the command of all Greek forces west and east of the beachhead to Colonel Kobokis (commander of the Greek-Cypriot Special Forces).

British Cemetery Elvas

The Duke of Wellington was anxious to secure both cities before advancing into Spain and chose to conduct the operations in the north himself and leave Marshal Beresford, the Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army, in command of the southern operation.

Charles E. Hazlett

He was part of the battery during its near annihilation at the First Battle of Bull Run, fought through the battles of the Peninsula Campaign and was in command of the battery by the Second Battle of Bull Run.

Child of the Prophecy

Publishers Weekly said that "Marillier's strong voice and rolling, lucid prose seem appropriate for a 10th-century Irish tale, and her command of a fantasy story's

Dragan Obrenović

Captain Vinko Pandurević was in command of the whole brigade involvement.

Edit mask

Aspect of command called user mask, allowing "masked" computer users to have write access on some shared resources in Unix and Linux

Edward Kinder Bradbury

Bradbury was an officer in the British Army during the First World War where as second-in-command of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery he led the battery during an engagement at Néry during the Retreat from Mons on 1 September 1914, where he was killed in action.

Enric Llaudet

It was not until the eighties, under the command of Josep Lluís Núñez, when the club returned to chair the Committee on Economic and Statuary.

Ernst Freiherr von Althaus

In a reversal of the usual system of transfers, Althaus shifted back into the command of an infantry company at Verdun.

First Republic of South Korea

The resulting Armistice Agreement was signed by the North Korean army, Chinese People's Volunteers and the U.S.-led and Republic of Korea-supported United Nations Command.

Fortified Sector of Thionville

The Thionville sector was under the overall command of the French 3rd Army, headquartered at Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, under the command of General Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.

Guy Tousignant

He departed from Rwanda on December 8, 1995, leaving the mission in the charge of his second-in-command, Brigadier-General Shiva Kumar of India.

Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

The formation HQ is under Operational Command of Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR).

Henry Frederick Stephenson

On 30 March 1866 Stephenson was the lieutenant-in-command of HMS Heron, serving in North America and the West Indies, and becoming the commanding officer of a gun-boat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian raids of 1866.

Hermann Foertsch

Hermann Foertsch surrendered to American forces under the command of Jacob Devers in 1945 and was later tried at the Hostages Trial in 1947 but was acquitted.

Johann Philipp d'Arco

His second in command Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli was stripped of all honours and his sword was broken over him.

John Tyler Morgan

He was reassigned to a new command and fought in the Atlanta Campaign.

Marcel A. Hugues

On 7 March 1918, he was appointed to command of Escadrille Spa95 ('Spa' meaning Spad).

Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 39

On January 2003, the squadron deployed as a command in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) both aboard the SS Curtiss (T-AVB-4) aviation logistics support ship, and ashore at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait and at various Forward Operating Bases throughout Iraq.

McRaven

William H. McRaven (born 1955), United States Navy four-star admiral, currently Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command.

Michael J. Williams

BGen Williams served in that capacity until July 16, 1993, when he assumed command of 2nd Force Service Support Group (2nd FSSG).

Montana Air National Guard

As state militia units, the units in the Montana Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.

Natural user interface

In the 1970s, '80s and '90s Steve Mann developed a number of user-interface strategies using natural interaction with the real world as an alternative to a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI).

Norman Augustus Finch

On 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, Sergeant Finch was second in command of the pom-poms and Lewis gun in the foretop of HMS Vindictive.

Phillippe de Rullecourt

He was placed in command of French troops during the 1779 failed invasion of Jersey, as second-in-command to the Prince of Nassau.

Piotra Sych

There he joined the Polish Army in the East, being formed under command of General Władysław Anders, just like hundreds of other Belarusians from Western Belarus (Kresy).

PPRU

PPRU-1 is a Soviet/Russian mobile air target reconnaissance and command center

Rama Raghoba Rane

Major Rama Raghoba Rane, PVC (Konkani: रामा राघोबा राणे), was born on 26 June 1918 at Chendia, Karwar, Karnataka, India and died July 11, 1994 at Southern command Hospital in Pune.

Richard Lestock

Whilst in command of her, he was active ashore at the relief of Barcelona and the capture of Alicante.

Royal Air Force Germany

RAF Germany was disbanded as a separate command in 1993 as part of the reduction of British Armed Forces presence in Europe at the cessation of the Cold War.

Sex in the American Civil War

Popular legend has it that they were so common around the Army of the Potomac when Union general Joseph Hooker was in command that the term "hooker" was coined to describe them; however, the term had been in use since 1845.

SNMP simulator

Since current network management standards comprise a set of protocols, the better simulators integrate the current network management standards, such as NetFlow, command-line interfaces (CLI), etc.

Supreme National Security Council

# Chief of the Supreme Command Council of the Armed Forces (SCCAF)- Major General Hassan Firouzabadi

The Detached Mission

The CIA officers appoints U.S. Army Major Jack Hessalt as a commanding officer of missile launch command post inside a secret U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean.

Theodore McEvoy

Air Chief Marshal Sir Theodore Neuman McEvoy KCB CBE RAF (21 November 1904 – 19 September 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force officer during World War II who held high command in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Third English Civil War

At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.

Troop commander

A troop commander is the senior officer in command of a Red Army cavalry troop.

Vilhelm Herold

However, he also sang throughout Europe, including a command performance for King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace in 1905.

William Ziegler

The third expedition fitted out by Mr. Ziegler, and which was still in the arctic regions at the time of his death, was sent out in the summer of 1903 under the command of Anthony Fiala and Captain Edward Coffin of Edgartown, Massachusetts.

Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station

In 1994, the Air Force Reserve became a separate Major Command (MAJCOM) in the Air Force organizational structure as Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC).


see also

1824: The Arkansas War

Charles Ball, General in the Arkansas Army, second-in-command to Driscoll.

1st Battalion 25th Marines

During this same timeframe, US forces made significant progress in eliminating some of al-Qaeda in Iraq's top leadership: a 7 June 2006 airstrike killed al-Zarqawi and his spiritual advisor Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman while the organization's reputed second-in-command, Hamid Juma Faris Jouri al-Saeedi, was captured in a joint US/Iraqi raid on 19 June 2006.

5th United States Colored Cavalry

Lieutenant Colonel James S. Brisbin and his second in command, Carpenter, led their dismounted soldiers forward toward the Confederate defensive works.

Action of 2 March 1808

The Danish captain was the colourful and erratic adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen, who in 1801 had been a member of the crew, and perhaps second in command, of Lady Nelson.

Alberto Sileoni

The election of Kirchner's wife, Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as President in late 2007 resulted in Sileoni's appointment as second-in-command for Education Minister Juan Carlos Tedesco, a UNESCO official.

Alfred Friendly

While in the military he was involved in cryptography and intelligence operations, finally becoming the second in command at Bletchley Park, and the highest ranking American officer there.

Archibald H. Gillespie

He joined the Fremont volunteers in the California Battalion as its second in command after it was formed under Commodore Robert F. Stockton on July 18, 1846.

Armitage Saddle

They named it for Lieutenant Albert Armitage, second-in-command of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, in recognition of his exploration in this area.

Bug Bite

In Transformers: Timelines volume 2 #2, "Games of Deception", traveling to Earth with a group of Bludgeon's Decepticons (unaware they were being trailed by Ultra Magnus' forces), they met up with Megatron's second-in-command Starscream.

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

His attention is noted by Joab, Nemo’s second in command (John Turner).

Charles Francis Hall

The first attempt using the 95-ton schooner Active was abandoned, probably due to lack of finances caused by the American Civil War and the failed relationship with his intended second in command Parker Snow.

Chhibramau

Accompanied by his second-in-command, McDowell, and 75 men, he rode across a countryside swarming with rebels to carry despatches to the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Colin Campbell.

Cleander of Macedon

In 330 he was employed by Polydamas, Alexander's emissary, to kill Parmenion, under whom he had been left as second in command at Ecbatana.

Company commander

Some specialized company-sized units, such as aviation companies using the Boeing CH-47 Chinook airframe, are assigned a major as a company commander due to the increased responsibility of such assignments; the platoons which comprise these company are typically commanded by captains rather than lieutenants, with a captain, rather than a first lieutenant, as the company's second-in-command.

Count Baltar

To this end, the Imperious Leader installs Baltar as the commander of a Cylon basestar, with an "I.L.-series" Cylon named Lucifer (body by Felix Silla, voice by Jonathan Harris) as Baltar's second in command; the two other basestars in Baltar's taskforce are also subservient to him.

Edward Riou

After the British force had surveyed the Danish positions around Copenhagen, a council of war was held between Parker, his second in command Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, and the other British captains.

Emilio Largo

With his status as SPECTRE's second in command, Largo and his appearance inspired Robert Wagner's Number Two in the Austin Powers films.

Fabián Ramírez

He is a member of the Estado Mayor and the second-in-command of the Southern Bloc of the FARC-EP.

Fahim Ahmad

His original “second in command” was Zakaria Amara; however he apparently grew disenchanted with Ahmad’s lack of action and broke away.

Fayetteville, Tennessee

Lincoln County was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, second in command of the U.S. Army at the end of the Revolutionary War.

Halvor Kongsjorden

Towards the end of World War II he was one of the local Milorg leaders in Buskerud (second-in-command in the D16 north district 1612, and leader of the Veggli-Rollag group).

Hitlerjugendführer

In the 1981 German film Das Boot, Director Wolfgang Petersen uses the term Hitlerjugendführer to describe the second in command of the featured German U-Boot, indicating the stern and "by-the-book" manner of the second officer in contrast to the more realistic views of the boat's captain played by Jürgen Prochnow.

Joseph Hodgkins

On January 24, 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress formed a special company of Minuteman in which Captain Nathaniel Wade would be the commander and Lieutenant Hodgkins would be the second in command.

Juan O'Neylle

On November 23, 1808, the Spanish army of Andalucía regrouped and prepared to give battle under the command of Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén with Palafox as the second in command.

Knights of God

Patrick Troughton played Arthur, the apparent leader of the English resistance, and Julian Fellowes played Mordrin's ambitious and ruthless second-in-command, Brother Hugo.

Louis-Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil

Louis-Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1724-1802), second in command of the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War.

Louise Drew

Among Drew's many Broadway appearances were in The Second in Command (co-starring her father), Iris, Lady Rose's Daughter (1903), Whitewashing Julia (1903), Strongheart, Caught in the Rain (not connected with the Charlie Chaplin Keystone short), and as the French Countess in It Pays to Advertise (1914), which subsequently was revived on both stage and film.

Luigi Pistilli

He appeared in many spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (as the priest brother of Eli Wallach's character Tuco) and in For a Few Dollars More (1965) as the cunning second-in-command Groggy (his first credited film role).

Marrowbone Lane

His second-in-command was Cathal Brugha, and other participants who achieved later prominence in one way or another were W. T. Cosgrave, Joseph McGrath and Dennis O'Brien.

Military campaigns of Julius Caesar

Nevertheless, Pompey's sons Gnaeus Pompeius and Sextus Pompeius, together with Titus Labienus, Caesar's former propraetorian legate (legatus propraetore) and second in command in the Gallic War, escaped to Hispania.

Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington

In September 1942 he was parachuted to mainland Greece as the Second-in-Command of the Harling Force, headed by Eddie Myers, whose task was to blow up the Gorgopotamos bridge.

Nintendo Comics System

Simon Belmont and Mega Man were appropriately replaced by Samus Aran, the Metroid heroine who had not appeared in the cartoon, and Mother Brain's second-in-command became Uranos, the demigod from Kid Icarus.

Onslow baronets

The title was awarded in recognition of his services at the Battle of Camperdown where he was second in command.

Paul Picerni

(December 1, 1922 – January 12, 2011), was an American actor with a long, distinguished career in film and television, perhaps best known today in the role of Federal Agent Lee Hobson, second-in-command to Robert Stack's Eliot Ness in the ABC hit television series, The Untouchables.

Robert Terrill Rundle

Chief Trader John Edward Harriott – As John Rowand's second-in-command, and also Rowand's son-in-law, Harriott was a valuable benefactor for Robert Rundle.

Rudi Gunn

He joined NUMA at the same time as Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino, becoming deputy director of NUMA's oceanographic projects, making him second in command under Admiral James Sandecker.

Ruth Railton

She was one of four daughters and one son, David, born to the Rev. David Railton, the son of George Scott Railton, who was second in command of William and Catherine Booth's Salvation Army.

Sam Hinkie

In Houston, Hinkie promoted the use of advanced statistics in professional basketball while "second-in-command" to General Manager Daryl Morey, another widely known advocate of advanced basketball analytics.

Temugin

However, much later he's seen among the Agents of Atlas, appointed as a second in command, and possible replacement, for Jimmy Woo, current head figure for the Atlas Foundation.

Thomas Poulter

He was second in command on the Second Byrd Antarctic Mission to the South Pole with Richard E. Byrd.

Thomas William Sweeny

As second in command, he participated in the capture of Camp Jackson in May 1861 and later assisted in organizing the Home Guards.

William Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson left the expedition before it ended in disaster at Cooper Creek, and went on to join first Alfred William Howitt’s Victorian Relief Expedition, which aimed to establish the fate of the Burke and Wills expedition, and then in 1861 the John McKinlay relief party, on which he served as second-in-command.

William Wills

William John Wills (1834–1861), English explorer and second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition

Winchester Osgood

Without re-sighting the artillery piece, Osgood’s second in command Major Frederick Funston gave the order to fire the gun and the shell hit one of the blockhouses.