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General Officer Commanding Major General

Arabic translation: قائد وحدة بدرجة لواء

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English term or phrase:	General Officer Commanding Major General
Arabic translation:	قائد وحدة بدرجة لواء
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08:15 Aug 11, 2005

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English term or phrase: General Officer Commanding Major General

He explained that the General Officer Commanding Major General Riley had directed the most thorough investigation at the very earliest opportunity.

This is the longest title I have ever seen! I would really appreciate any help thanks.

Ziad Marzouka KudoZ activity Questions: 267 (6 open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 802
Local time: 15:46

قائد وحدة بدرجة لواء

Explanation:
Genral is جنرال / لواء
Officer commanding is ضابط قائد / قائد وحدة
Major general is لواء
So I guess قائد وحدة بدرجة لواء could do. or Maybe جنرال قائد وحدة بدرجة لواء

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lamiayehia
Local time: 14:46

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5 +1

UK Military English = GOC

Stephen Franke

3 +3

قائد وحدة بدرجة لواء

lamiayehia

الفريق أول (ميجور جنرال) رايلي الضابط الفريق الآمر (للواء، للمنطقة للفيلق، الخ بحسب السيلق)

Hassan Al-Haifi (wordforword)

الفريق الركن القائد

Alaa Abdulsalam

الضابط العظيم الآمر

MElHelw

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38 mins confidence:

general officer commanding الضابط العظيم الآمر

Explanation:
General Officer commanding, generally abbreviated as G.O.C., means the officer of General rank actually commanding an army unit or front etc. Sometimes also CO (commanding officer) is used.
Major General here is the rank of RILEY equivalent to فريق أو فريق أول

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOC

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOC

MElHelw
Local time: 14:46
Specializes in field
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Arabic

1 hr confidence:

general officer commanding major general الفريق الركن القائد

Explanation:
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الفريق بقيادة الأركان

Alaa Abdulsalam
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 15:46
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1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

general officer commanding major general

قائد وحدة بدرجة لواء

lamiayehia
Local time: 14:46
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Arabic
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6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

UK Military English = GOC

Explanation:
Greetings.

As the first respodnent mentioned, the term General Officer Commanding (abbrev as "GOC") is a standard usage in the British Army.

The title of GOC denotes a general-grade officer who is in command of a unit (at least a regiment, but usually a division, corps or higher-level unit), versus a general who is a senior staff officer or director of a non-combat unit. (Staffers and directors do not "command")

The equivalent of "GOC" in US Army "military English" is "Commanding General" or abbrev. as "CG."

For clarity in US English media, that title and (set off by commas) attendant rank and name (Riley) would be rendered thusly:

The Commanding General (of whatever unit is cited elsewhere in the original item), Major General Riley, promised...

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Correction:... Riley, had directed (conform to original text)

Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 05:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

2 days13 hrs confidence:

general officer commanding major general الفريق أول (ميجور جنرال) رايلي الضابط الفريق الآمر (للواء، للمنطقة للفيلق، الخ بحسب السيلق)

Explanation:
Arabs Gate defines Major General by transliteration; I think we might call him فريق أول
Please see bottom of second link for US Army (General staff ranking)
MG is bigger than a Brigadier General (قائد لواء( أو فرقة

http://www.arabsgate.com/trjm/translate.php
http://www.military-quotes.com/ranks/army-rank-insignia.
I changed my mind after browsing MSN Search for GOC (http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?srch_type=0&q=General Off...
GOC is also used in some other countries (mostly former British colonies) as well as Ireland, as shown by links below:
he served as General Officer Commanding the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. On D-Day, he led the charge of that division on the beaches of Normandy

n the other hand this could really be translated as
القائد العام آمر اللواء أو المنطقة، ولكن ذلك يتضارب والترجمة السائدة لمنصب

Commander-in-Chief والتي ربما أن ترجمتها تحتاج إلى إعادة النظر كاالقائد الرئيسي أو الأول.

Reference: http://www.junobeach.org/e/3/can-pep-can-keller-e.htm
Reference: http://www.kildare.ie/defenceforces/goc.HTM

Hassan Al-Haifi (wordforword)
Local time: 15:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

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