command post
noun
: a post at which the commander of a unit in the field receives orders and exercises command
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a historic home that for a time served as Washington's command post during the American Revolution
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Ukrainian forces also reportedly used a HIMARS to strike a different 810th Naval Infantry Brigade command post near Lgov, Kursk Oblast, on December 25, killing the brigade's deputy commander and other staff officers.
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Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
At Zuma Beach, in Malibu, emergency workers had set up a command post to coördinate the response to the Palisades Fire.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
Addressing radio interoperability by requiring, and ensuring through appropriate supervision, the co-location of Secret Service personnel with state and local public safety counterparts at unified command posts.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
Ukraine's Strategic Command previously reported that an attack on December 25 had successfully hit a command post of the Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, a regiment of the Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol.
—Hugh Cameron, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
At Zuma Beach, in Malibu, emergency workers had set up a command post to coördinate the response to the Palisades Fire.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
Addressing radio interoperability by requiring, and ensuring through appropriate supervision, the co-location of Secret Service personnel with state and local public safety counterparts at unified command posts.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
Ukraine's Strategic Command previously reported that an attack on December 25 had successfully hit a command post of the Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, a regiment of the Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol.
—Hugh Cameron, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Command post.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/command%20post. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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