The annotation of the Purple Heart is denoted both with the service member's parent command and at the headquarters of the military service department.

New personnel were selected from the parent command, and by August 1981, unit strength was up to 165 men and 16 aircraft.

A subsearch is an argument to a command that runs its own search, returning those results to the parent command as the argument value.

The Starfleet crew undoubtedly would have contacted their parent command about their current situation.

Commands can be nested, taking the place of one or more arguments within the parent command to form more complex code:

The division conducts evaluations of service-wide ground safety mishap investigations and provides advice to investigators in the field through their parent major commands.

The TTC serves as the parent command for two German air crew training squadrons.

As a result, it was decided to merge the Iraq Assistance Group back into its parent command.

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the 43rd Battalion's parent command, the Army of Northern Virginia.

In October 1992, the parent commands of both wings changed.