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Major-General Patrick Nicholas Yardley Monrad Sanders CBE, DSO is a British Army officer. He is currently General Officer Commanding the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division. ==Military career== Educated at Worth School and the University of Exeter,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Major-General Patrick Sanders )〕 Sanders was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets on 23 September 1984. He served as a junior officer in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and then undertook tours in Kosovo in 1999 and in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001.〔 He became Chief of Staff of 1st Mechanised Brigade in 2002 and then became commanding officer of 2nd Battalion the Royal Green Jackets in 2005.〔 In the latter role he managed the transition of his battalion to become 4th Battalion The Rifles and then saw action with his battalion at the siege of UK bases in Basra in 2007 during the Iraq War. Sanders became commander of 20th Armoured Brigade in August 2009,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Senior Army Commands )〕 in which role he was deployed to command British troops in Helmand Province in Afghanistan in late 2011,〔 Chief of the Liaison Officer to the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee in 2012 and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) in March 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Army Commands )〕 In Spring 2014 Sanders took part in the Prime Minister's Cobra meetings on the floods crisis.〔 He took over command of the 3rd Division in April 2015. He was awarded the DSO for service in Iraq on 25 July 2008. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Sanders (British Army officer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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