How to Use command post in a Sentence

command post

noun
  • Rescuers gave him water and brought him back to the command post.
    Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The teen was escorted to the nearest road and then taken to the command post.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 12 July 2022
  • The Obamas did not use the garage, so the extra traffic to and from the command post caused no problem.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The couple drove her to a nearby command post and left her in the care of firefighters and paramedics.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Second order of business: set up a command post out in the ‘burbs.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Police, who asked people to avoid the area, established a command post near the area.
    Tony Plohetski, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The group started working at the command post Thursday.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The Kings’ living room in Atlanta doubled as a command post.
    Clarence B. Jones, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • Still, Norman asked the command post for the quickest possible way to get the man downhill.
    Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Deputies set up a search and rescue command post at the Lakeside Christian Church, a few miles from where the man went missing.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The wind became intense, knocking down trees and power lines all around the command post.
    Jeffrey E. Stern, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The air unit lowered rescuers to the man, who was airlifted from the area to a command post at Pali Golf Course, rescuers said.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Clark County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the area and set up a command post at the Sunset Falls Campground.
    Jessica Prokop, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Aniah’s family has been in Auburn where a command post was set up.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Khoda left the base and sped north to Chernihiv to establish a forward command post.
    Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
  • At the command post, the lieutenant said a begrudging hello to a woman who was leaving her home, a few yards away.
    New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Offline, the team of volunteers set up shop at a local theater and are using the space as their command post.
    Ashley Vaughan, CNN, 7 June 2020
  • Once the 911 call came in, dozens of officers began searching for the girl and a command post was set up at East Precinct to coordinate the search.
    oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Upon landing at home base, Jerry went to thank the command post for getting the vital cartridge to him.
    Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • At the ad hoc incident command post, Rennick looked up the three-month forecast on his laptop.
    Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Trump toured a high school that had been transformed into a law enforcement command post.
    Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2020
  • From the ground around the command post protruded the fins of unexploded ordnance.
    New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • At stake is the command post of one of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies with a budget of nearly $1 billion.
    Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Johnson testified that another deputy, Raul Versales, had asked him to take and send the photos to the command post.
    Alene Tchekmedyianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The chief of the Uvalde police department called from his vacation to tell the acting chief, Lieutenant Pargas, to set up a command post.
    New York Times, 17 July 2022
  • Authorities set up a command post near the shopping center, and more than a dozen police cars converged on the scene.
    oregonlive, 26 July 2023
  • Al Fury, the Hilton’s security director, gave us a suite near the shooting site to use as a forward command post.
    Thomas J. Baker, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
  • State officials spent a full week inside their command post — built to withstand a nuclear blast — and used a map to chart the attack’s spread.
    Jake Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 26 July 2021
  • There's also a $1.3 million mobile command post larger than the vehicles of the same name that were purchased four years ago.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Inside the three-room hut that serves as his command post and living quarters, his Kalashnikov hangs on the wall near photographs of his father.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020

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