There are a few players in the Role Startup process on Windows Azure [SDK 1.3]. Please note that I am only calling out the players in the Full IIS Support Process [This is not Hosted Web Core].
A commander-in-chief is the person or body that exercises supreme operational command and control of a nation's military forces or significant elements of those forces. In the latter case, the force element is those forces within a particular region, or associated by function.
The President of the USA is the Commander in Chief of the American Armed Forces. By deliberate design, that position can only be held by a civilian. It reinforces the concept that the military is subordinate to the rule of law as created by civilians in the form of the elected government.