commissioned officer
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The academy in Annapolis educates more than 4,400 midshipmen who graduate as commissioned officers in the Navy or Marine Corps.
From Washington Post
The current police chief is Black, as are about 58 percent of the department’s commissioned officers.
From New York Times
Of nearly 2,000 commissioned officers, about 58 percent are Black, 37 percent are white and 3 percent are Hispanic.
From New York Times
He did attend the military academy then — just after Robert E. Lee and before Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman — with the intention of becoming a commissioned officer in the Army.
From Washington Post
The commissioned officers — assistants, deputy assistants and special assistants to the president — “frequently convene with the president, influence his way of thinking, make recommendations and advise him on important personnel decisions,” the study says.
From Washington Post
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