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commanding officer

NOUN
  1. an officer in command of a military unit

How To Use commanding officer In A Sentence

  • I support a troop's right to disobey his or her commanding officer, to desert, to subvert the system that enslaves him.
  • He watched the poor wretch the commanding officer was lecturing, and looked on him with little pity.
  • They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer.
  • There she found a unit of infantry soldiers who were also without a commanding officer.
  • The police could not arrest anyone, for the basket contained two Members of Parliament and the commanding Officer of the station!
  • The commanding officer put Sergeant Williams in for a medal for bravery.
  • His appointment as aide-de-camp to the commanding officer of the Australian Military Forces enabled him to see much of the new army before he was selected to attend the British Army Staff College in 1906, the first Australian to do so.
  • Junior officers in the British army require their commanding officer's permission to marry or they are obliged to resign their commission.
  • ‘Welcome aboard the Oberon, Captain,’ Reagan said, addressing Lawrence by the honorific he deserved as commanding officer of a ship.
  • I would not be in favor of seeing another commanding officer in charge of the military.
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