Commanding Officer

Definition: Commanding Officer

Commanding Officer

Noun

1. An officer in command of a military unit.

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Synonyms: Commanding Officer

Crosswords: Commanding Officer

You took your father's armor, ran away from home, impersonated a soldier, deceived your commanding officer, destroyed my palace and you have saved us all. (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao)

He was my commanding officer. (One, Two, Three; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder)

But if you're asking me how a far a commanding officer is allowed to go, or dare go, or should be permitted to play God, I can't answer you. (The Great Escape; writing credit: James Clavell)

The Commanding Officer (1915)

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Zera L. Tanner First commanding officer of Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS Invented many surveying and oceanographic devices. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Joseph Lushene, Commanding Officer of 16th Field Artillery Observation Battalion Somewhere in Europe, 1944 or 1945 Photo taken from projected movie image. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Plate VII -- Tropical and Polar Air Currents. Contrast this view to some of the early TIROS imagery in the Space collection. In: The Weather Book : A Manual of Practical Meteorology, by Rear Admiral Robert Fitzroy . Published in 1863. Call Number QC861 .F54 1863. He was the commanding officer of H. M. S. BEAGLE when Charles Darwin made his famous studies. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Cartoons depicting officers of the BLAKE in their old age by Charles D. Sigsbee, Commanding Officer of the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB QB 281.2 .S37 1881. Credit: Treasures of the Library.

"The cabin." This was the captain's quarters. The individual sitting is Zera Luther Tanner, first commanding officer of the ALBATROSS. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS" , by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate III. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 19. Closing device for Chun and Petersen net first devised by Giuseppe Palumbo, commanding officer of the VETTOR PISANI. In the course of its around the world oceanographic cruise of 1882-1885, the idea to develop a helical clos ing device for a towed plankton net was developed. Prince Albert I of Monaco adapted this idea to a vertical net during the expedition of 1887. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 17, Dijon, France. : Base Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. Angus McLean, at tea with nurses. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army. Camp Hospital No. 29, Le Courneau, France. : Personnel- Nurses and Commanding Officer. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Officers, nurses and enlisted men of the Hospital staff, circa 1924-1927. Captain Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), Hospital Commanding Officer, is seated in the front row, center. Credit: NAVY.

Engraving published circa the later 19th Century. He was the last Commanding Officer of CSS Florida, in January-October 1864. Credit: NAVY.

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Human Rights

Maldives

The Attorney General or a commanding officer of the police must approve the search of private residences. (references)

Sierra Leone

Guinean and Sierra Leonean officials determined that the attack was an accident, and the commanding officer was removed immediately from his post. (references)

Ghana

In January the Commanding Officer of the 64th Infantry Regiment, who had commanded the unit since 1994, was transferred and a new Commanding Officer named. (references)

Political Economy

Ghana

Although members of the security forces often are not punished for abuses, the commanding officer and other members of the 64th Infantry Unit, which is believed to commit many abuses, was transferred during the year. (references)

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Chinese 

司令 . (various references)

Czech

velící dùstojník. (various references)

Dutch

Commandant van de Vliegdienst. (various references)

French

Commandant du Service aérien. (various references)

German

kommandant (captain, commandant, commander), befehlshabender offizier. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפק�" (chief, commandant, commander). (various references)

Hungarian

csapattest parancsnok, hadtest parancsnok. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

隊長 , 部隊長 , 部将 , 司令官 (commandant, general). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいちょう (ebb tide, leaving one's office, length of an animal, physical condition, waning fortunes), しれいか�" (commandant, general), ぶたいちょう, ぶしょう (indolence, laziness, military commander, sloth). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommandingcay officeray

Serbo-Croatian

komandant jedinica. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: monoaminergic.