NOUN
- a commissioned officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines holding a rank above major and below colonel
How To Use lieutenant colonel In A Sentence
- Many lieutenant colonels and colonels express frustration at being labeled as poor mentors, and portrayed as contributing to the attrition of captains.
- In two years he rose from lieutenant colonel to major general. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
- As before, the Korean War recipients ranged from privates to lieutenant colonels, with nine army men and three Marines represented.
- How should a lieutenant colonel in the Marines address a captain in the navy? Times, Sunday Times
- The Lieutenant Colonel and Kostas muttered familiarly to each other, as the people in charge, showing they were at ease. COUP D'ETAT
- As a result, lieutenant colonels, colonels, and general officers must operate in a more complex task environment than during the Cold War.
- He later became senior medical officer in Borneo with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
- The Lieutenant Colonel put in, `They say we've achieved enosis. COUP D'ETAT
- In two years he rose from lieutenant colonel to major general. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
- In this year he returned to America with the rank of lieutenant colonel to take up a staff position.
