"It is a promise that as long as I am your Commander in Chief, I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary, and with the strategy, the well-defined goals, the equipment and the support you need to get the job done,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

After being interned in a Nazi work camp during World War II, he managed to make his way with his first wife, Eva, to the Romanian border, only to encounter a Russian commander who demanded to see his papers.

WSJ: Cello's Golden Age Comes to a Close | J��nos Starker | By Stuart Isacoff

But all too often, recounts a naval commander, helicopters arrive only to watch pirates taking their prey back to Somalia.

ECONOMIST: Piracy off Somalia

The job of deputy supreme commander in Europe, always held by a European, would be beefed up so that, in the absence of Americans, the European deputy could lead a European-only mission (the supreme commander is an American).

ECONOMIST: France