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
- How should a lieutenant colonel in the Marines address a captain in the navy? Times, Sunday Times
- He became a pilot in 1921 and was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel during World War II.
- He was finally appointed lieutenant colonel and authorized to raise a regiment.
- Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.
- As a general rule, however, military intellectuals tend to face mandatory retirement as lieutenant colonels or colonels, just as they are achieving full intellectual maturity.
- The men, in uniforms of a major and lieutenant colonel, got past security into a compound. The Sun
- After 12 years of teaching ethics at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, I have learned a few lessons from the lieutenant colonels and colonels I've taught.
- Lieutenant Colonel McSally commands twenty - seven aircraft and more than sixty crew members.
- The King conferred revised sentences - notably four full pardons and a reinstatement - on the group, which included three majors and two lieutenant colonels.
- Five Americans were also killed in the last week, one a lieutenant colonel. Times, Sunday Times
