The phrase "a commanding officer in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a person who holds a leadership position within a military or organizational context.
Example: "The commanding officer in charge of the operation made a crucial decision that affected the outcome."
Alternatives: "a leader in" or "an officer in".
Under military law, any plea agreement prosecutors recommend would have to be signed off on by a commanding officer, in this case, Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg.
"This isn't fucking PlayStation," says a commanding officer in Good Kill.
In January 2011, he was a major in the paras with years of experience as a commanding officer in Kosovo and Afghanistan under his belt.
General Franco was using the tactics of bombardment, massacre, torture, and the killing and mutilation of prisoners that he had perfected as a commanding officer in Morocco in the nineteen-twenties.
Assistant Chief Phil T. Pulaski, a commanding officer in the counterterrorism bureau, gave me an example: "A tanker-truck collision, a spill, it's an accident anywhere in the country, but not here in New York City.
"I can promise you that throughout the war, there were many times that civilians walked by us and we never shot at them," said a commanding officer in a part of El Atatra, Major E. That statement draws a hollow laugh from villagers.
My background as a commanding officer stood me in good stead.
But (oh, here we go with the but) a commanding officer has it in his authority to make a policy as needed or required, as he deems necessary.
"I understand people don't believe what we have reached in a short time," said General Pastika, youthful-looking at 51, who served as a commanding officer for the United Nations police in Namibia in the late 1980's and participated in advanced courses in police work in Australia.
In the late 1980's, as a commanding officer for the United Nations police in Namibia, he was in charge of the "colored and black" officers of the force, he said.
These orders, replete with a detailed list of equipment, have already been brainstormed, charted, mapped, fine-tuned and war-gamed and once validated, a single telephone call from commanding officers in-theater triggers deployment.
