command post

noun

|Updated on: 19 Jun 2018

Examples: command post in a Sentence

Definition of command post

: a post at which the commander of a unit in the field receives orders and exercises command

Examples of command post in a Sentence

a historic home that for a time served as Washington's command post during the American Revolution

Recent Examples of command post from the Web

Just before 8pm on Tuesday, June 5, Joshua Phillip Yabut, a 29-year-old 1st Lieutenant in the Virginia National Guard, drove off the Guard's Fort Pickett training center in Blackstone, Virginia in an M577 command post vehicle.

— sean gallagher, Ars Technica, "Police follow as guardsman takes personnel carrier on unscheduled deployment [Updated]," 6 June 2018
Yesterday, June 6th 2018, First Lieutenant Joshua Phillip Yabut drove the M1068 armored command post vehicle off the grounds of Fort Pickett, an Army National Guard base in Blackstone, Virginia.

— kyle mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Soldier Steals Armored Vehicle, Takes Joyride Through City," 6 June 2018
For Componere events, the silver bullet is a bustling command post.

— leilani marie labong, San Francisco Chronicle, "Start a tradition with a Bodega beach clambake," 11 May 2018
The US Department of Defense says that a chemical weapons storage facility was targeted, in addition to a chemical weapons equipment storage facility and command post.

— paul p. murphy, CNN, "Satellite images show craters at alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities," 14 Apr. 2018
More than 100 precision missiles targeted a scientific research center near Damascus, a chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs and a storage facility and command post near Homs.

— john bacon, USA TODAY, "Nikki Haley says Russia will face new sanctions over Syria," 15 Apr. 2018
Because the operation would take place far from Israeli airspace, beyond Israel’s radar and radio range, the air force had to set up an airborne command post, in the form of a Boeing 707 fitted with radar and communications equipment.

— ronen bergman, New York Times, "How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine," 23 Jan. 2018
The Pentagon said the locations hit were a scientific research center in the Barzeh suburb of Damascus, a chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs, and a chemical weapons equipment storage facility and a command post, also near Homs.

— author: louisa loveluck, liz sly, Anchorage Daily News, "Assad is defiant as US-led strikes in Syria show no sign of threatening his hold on power," 15 Apr. 2018
And then on Friday night, the countries hit three targets — including one on the outskirts of Damascus — all related to Syria’s chemical weapons program: a research center, a storage facility, and an equipment facility and command post.

— alex ward, Vox, "The US bombing of Syria, explained in 400 words," 14 Apr. 2018

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