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staff officer

NOUN
  1. a commissioned officer assigned to a military commander's staff

How To Use staff officer In A Sentence

  • His staff officers were white except for a black warrant officer, the assistant regimental adjutant.
  • A solitary disgruntled staff officer accompanied Lohengrin back to his hotel, asking him what he did want, receiving no reply. LOHENGRIN
  • Keitel, a professional soldier, served as an artillery officer on the Western Front during the First World War and then as a staff officer.
  • He countermanded his instructions to his staff officer.
  • The trial of a chief constable's staff officer accused of stealing a hi-fi from a police property store collapsed after a jury failed to reach a verdict on two charges of theft and one of forgery.
  • Following the War, the Captain was stationed in Qingdao, China as a staff officer in the Headquarters of the US Seventh Fleet.
  • That night he gave his bed to a mortally wounded staff officer, and tears furrowed his cheeks when he heard of the losses.
  • How many British staff officers are aware that the elaborate braiding on their uniforms originated among Austrian hussars?
  • Apart from some garrison artillery, the regular army comprised staff officers and instructional cadres for the volunteer militia.
  • One of Grant's staff officers, Horace Porter, characterized the style of his commander's orders and dispatches as "vigorous and terse, with little of ornament; its most conspicuous characteristic was perspicuity. From Shiloh to Kandahar
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