He was the commander, not the commandant.
What is interesting is how the crowd started paying attention to him. He was speaking while some of the voting for the first round (and only round) was continuing and the vote tabulation was going on. Our Representative and Minority Whip Eric Cantor, former Governor and Senator George Allen and others all spoke before him during the voting process and received a polite welcome. Before he was done, he had the Richmond Coliseum rock'n and a roll'n.
Thanks for sharing this with us. He hit it out of the ballpark with that speech. It needs much, much more airplay.