The regimental commander exercised overall tactical control over these officers and usually relied on couriers and staff to deliver and receive messages and orders.
Still, commanders must exercise military power overseas with due regard for the safety of American troops and civilian populations.
To protect the colonists, a warship would be sent out in advance of the emigrant ship, and its commander would exercise the powers of 'Commissaire du Roi'.
But he said contra commanders exercise "rigorous control" over their distribution, and he discounted the possibility that they could find their way to other armed groups in Central America.
The commander exercises overall responsibility over assigned personnel and subordinate organizations to ensure that assigned missions are accomplished in the most efficient and effective manner possible.
The regiment's commander, Colonel J. Hale Sypher, served on court martial duty throughout the regiment's service and never exercised operational control over the regiment.
The commander was also seigneur of this and a further 21 communes and there exercised 'all justice'.
But it requires commanders to have "credible information" before undertaking an inquiry into a suspected violation, and it admonishes commanders to "exercise sound discretion regarding when credible information exists."
In this regard, the commander exercised command of U.S. Naval Forces assigned or attached, and operational control over the Republic of Korea Navy.
Vandegrift and his operational commanders, however, exercised local command over the Allied aircraft operating out of Henderson Field.