commander vs military personnel

commander and military personnel both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commander	Yes	No	No	No
military personnel	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, military personnel is a hypernym of commander; that is, military personnel is a word with a broader meaning than commander:

commander: an officer in the airforce
military personnel: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force

Other hypernyms of commander include man, military man, serviceman.

commander (noun)	military personnel (noun)
an officer in command of a military unit	soldiers collectively
a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain	someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
an officer in the airforce
someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others