field officer
noun
: a commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps of the rank of colonel, lieutenant colonel, or major compare company officer, general officer
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Most of the people who carried the devices that exploded were probably field officers, the local linchpins for cells of fighters who make up the backbone of Hezbollah’s forces.
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Ben Wedeman, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
The former field officer, Edward C. Banfield, became a professor and went on to produce books now better known: The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, a study of Sicily, and The Unheavenly City, a devastating treatment of the naivete of modern urban policy.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Following that conversation, field officers returned to Borton’s home to gather more evidence to no avail.
—Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
Sometimes orders are inappropriate, perhaps because they are based on dated and incomplete intelligence and may therefore be ignored by even the most diligent field officer.
—Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2022
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Ben Wedeman, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
The former field officer, Edward C. Banfield, became a professor and went on to produce books now better known: The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, a study of Sicily, and The Unheavenly City, a devastating treatment of the naivete of modern urban policy.
—Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Following that conversation, field officers returned to Borton’s home to gather more evidence to no avail.
—Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
Sometimes orders are inappropriate, perhaps because they are based on dated and incomplete intelligence and may therefore be ignored by even the most diligent field officer.
—Lawrence Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2022
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“Field officer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20officer. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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