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unusual facts about company commander


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.


Norman Dike

During World War II he was a Lieutenant in the 101st Airborne Division, where one assignment was Company Commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.

Dike was transferred from Division HQ to Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in the first week of November 1944 becoming Company Commander .

Wayne Rollings

His next assignment, in Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Air Station, Hawaii, was as a rifle platoon commander and then rifle company commander in the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines.


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Achim Lidsba

From 1981 to 1985 was in the Infantry Battalion 52 in Rotenburg an der Fulda twice as company commander and received the promotion to captain during this time.

Anthony Stack

He was also Company Commander and Chief Instructor at the Atlantic Area Rank and Trade School in Gagetown, New Brunswick.

Brian Haig

He served as a platoon leader in Germany, three years as an infantry company commander at Fort Carson, Colorado, before he was selected as an intern at the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he worked in the Current Operations Directorate on the Lebanon peacekeeping operation.

Chhelu Ram

Company Havildar-Major Chhelu Ram dashed forward with a tommy-gun and killed the occupants of a post and then went to the aid of his company commander who had become a casualty.

Colin Evans

He then returned to the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines Lympstone, as an Instructor, Troop Commander and Company Commander.

Edward Shames

In the episode Breaking Point, in discussing the potential officers to replace Easy Company Commander Norman Dike, Richard Winters commented that Shames 'has seen too many war movies' and 'thinks he has to yell all the time', implying that he would not be a good option.

Frank J. Breth

Returning from overseas in 1961, he reported to the 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for duty as Weapons Platoon Commander, 81mm Mortar Platoon Commander, Company Executive officer and Company Commander in the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines.

Fritz Knoechlein

It was in his capacity as a company commander that he gained notoriety, being responsible for the 27 May 1940 massacre of British prisoners-of-war at Le Paradis in the Pas-de-Calais.

Fritz Ritterbusch

In the spring of 1944 he was moved to KL Gross-Rosen where since May 1944 to February 13, 1945 he was company commander and the head of sub Parschnitz in Pozici and AL Trautenau in Trutnov in the Czech Republic.

Glenn Andreotta

Thompson and his crew watched from a low hover as Captain Ernest Medina (C Company Commander, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment) came up to the woman, prodded her with his foot, and then shot and killed her.

Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny

Wiscliceny enlisted in the SS-Stabswache Berlin in 1933, he was posted in 1938 to the Der Führer Regiment, seeing his first action as a company commander in the Balkans in spring 1941.

Hermann von Kuhl

After attending the Prussian Military Academy from 1889 to 1892, he served in the Royal Prussian District Command (Bezirkskommando) Wesel and the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm I" (2nd East Prussian) No. 3 – Königsberg, where he was a company commander.

Isaac H. Ferguson

Isaac H. Ferguson - (About 1776 - January 1, 1848) was the first settler of Marine Township, Illinois, Ferguson moved to Texas in 1846 and at the age of 70 became a company commander of Rusk County, Texas to fight in the Mexican-American War.

Jeremy Moore

While a company commander, he was awarded a Bar to the Military Cross in December 1962 when he led an attack against rebels holding the town of Limbang in the Sarawak area of Borneo, rescuing British and Australian hostages.

John E. Hart

They were put in contact with Confederate Army Captain William Walter Leake, a company commander with the 1st Louisiana Cavalry, who was home on furlough.

John Rymer-Jones

From 1927 to 1928 he served as a staff officer with the Shanghai Defence Force and his last years in the Army, from 1929 to 1933, were spent as a company commander at the Royal Military Academy.

Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.

In 1978, Dunford served in the 1st Marine Division as a platoon and company commander in 3rd Battalion 1st Marines and a company commander in 1st Battalion 9th Marines until 1981.

Lawrence Colburn

Thompson and his crew watched from a low hover as Captain Ernest Medina (C Company Commander, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment) came up to the woman, prodded her with his foot, and then shot and killed her.

Leonid Maltsev

He served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany as an infantry platoon commander, with the 1972 and - mechanized infantry company commander, with the 1974 and - the commander of a motorized rifle battalion.

Michael D. Steele

He was a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the Somalia mission Operation Gothic Serpent, which resulted in the now famous book and movie Black Hawk Down, where he was portrayed by actor Jason Isaacs.

Michael Joseph Hayes

On 14 August 1918 he volunteered for a rescue operation into no man's land to save his company commander, Robert P. Patterson.

Mrinal Hazarika

However, Bijoy Chinese, a close confidant of Paresh Baruah and Sujit Moran, the ‘B’ company commander, distanced themselves from the pro-ceasefire group.

Olavi Alakulppi

While Alakulppi served as a company commander in West Germany in the 1950s, his personal chauffeur was Elvis Presley who was carrying out his military service.

Panagiotis Demestichas

He participated in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13, rising to company commander by the end of the First Balkan War, a position he held throughout the Second Balkan War as well.

Robert D. Robbins

After graduation from West Point, Robbins was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Regular Army and served two tours in Vietnam as a paratrooper, eventually serving as Company Commander with D Company, 501st Airborne Infantry Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.

Seyran Ohanyan

In June 1988, he was transferred to the Red Banner Transcaucasian BO and was appointed commander of the infantry company commander of the 366th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment stationed in Stepanakert.

The Benji Hillman Foundation

The foundation is named after the late Major Benji Hillman (1979–2006), a company commander in the elite Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, who was killed in Maroun al-Ras on 20 July leading his troops into battle.

Vivian Hunter Galbraith

Ater the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in January 1915 and served as a company commander in the Queen's Regiment and was awarded the Croix de guerre avec palme for his courage in Palestine in 1917 and France in 1918.

Walter Fillmore

After this time on at the seaboard bases he was sent to Okinawa to serve as a Company Commander with the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines.

Walter James Sabalauski

Under heavy enemy fire and unable to maneuver, the company commander, Captain William Carpenter called for air strikes in his position in an attempt to force the enemy to withdraw.

William R. Higgins

Returning to the Fleet Marine Force in 1977, Capt. Higgins was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he again served as a rifle company commander with A Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines.