military officer

Example Sentences

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So when the phone rang as he was visiting family one Monday afternoon in February, Turmus wasn’t too surprised that the person speaking accented Arabic was an Israeli military officer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

At a Pentagon news conference on Thursday, America's most senior military officer Gen Dan Caine presented a map which showed a "blockade line" stretching from the eastern tip of Oman to Iran's border with Pakistan.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Steven J. Lockjaw, a military officer obsessed with Taylor’s revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills, overtly embodies this contradiction.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

A former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Larijani leads Iran’s most powerful security body, the Supreme National Security Council, and is Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s chief diplomatic fixer and enforcer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

But the sharp-eyed Tallmadge knew from the way that André paced across the floor that he had to be a military officer.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen