WordNet
n. an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel [syn: field officer, FO]
Usage examples of "field-grade officer".
Even if he was an airplane driver, he was a major, a field-grade officer.
And although Givens was an experienced and capable field-grade officer, he still had a germ of hope that the doughty captain would have thought of a miracle.
Consequently, sometime between now and the time the mission left the United States, a field-grade officer would be assigned.
Banning reflected that Ernie Sage seemed to have grasped what was expected of the wife of a junior officer when entertaining in their quarters a field-grade officer.
Or, as a field-grade officer and gentleman, was he expected to wear at least a shirt and tie if not a jacket?
Youre going to have to watch that, Jack, now that youre a field-grade officer.
He had far more time in The Corps as a sergeant than he did as a field-grade officer and gentleman.
I am curious what one of my sergeants is doing in here, sharing an expensive suite with a movie star, a field-grade officer, and a woman with rubies on her hand worth more money than he makes in a year.
The chief of state of a supposedly sovereign nation knew how to take his orders from a field-grade officer of Russia's Committee for State Security.
There'd be drones out there, careerist officers just serving their time and filling out their forms, as if that were what it meant to be a field-grade officer.
Whittaker was obviously taken, and Canidy, wearing the uniform of a field-grade officer assigned to SHAEF and looking very tired, did not appear boyish.
Jackson climbed out first, and at the bottom of the ladder a field-grade officer saluted him correctly.
It was even more unlikely that the Air Corps would commission as a field-grade officer someone with Canidy's record.
At only twenty-nine years old, the Major didn't look like a soldier, even less like a field-grade officer.
What she needed, she thought, was a field-grade officer who knew enough about biology and technology to shake up die teams at Camp Smolley-or at least knew enough to know who to requisition as his operations officers.