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Line officer   /laɪn ˈɔfəsər/   Listen
Line officer

noun
1.
A commissioned officer with combat units (not a staff officer or a supply officer).






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"Line officer" Quotes from Famous Books



... aground for thirty-five minutes. He had sat in the control room that whole time, supervising a smoothly-running operation. He had had to supervise it. Nobody else could have planned and carried it out. But it was not heroic. He had the line officer's inherent scorn for administrative officers, who are necessary but not glamorous or admired. He was stuck with just that kind of duty now. But he fretted. The local officials were given time to get over their panic. They ought to be planning ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins



Words linked to "Line officer" :   commissioned officer



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