The phrase "a regular officer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an officer who holds a standard or permanent position, typically in a military or law enforcement context.
Example: "He was promoted to the rank of captain after serving as a regular officer for several years."
Alternatives: "a full-time officer" or "a permanent officer".
L. 96 513, § 324(b), substituted "a regular officer" for "any officer on the active list".
Before joining the ranks of academe, Col. Miles served as a regular officer in the U.S. Army.
Returning to the Gloucesters as a regular officer in 1946 after serving in Palestine, Captain Farrar-Hockley was adjutant of the regiment's 1st battalion when it was sent to Korea late in 1950 as part of the 29th Brigade.
The initial talk of revolution fades, and Tancredi, who begins as a follower of Garibaldi, becomes a regular officer in the army of the Piedmontese, expressing contempt for the red-shirted Garibaldi rabble.
"I am always with a regular officer so there are no calls I wouldn't deal with," Harman says, "and we have had a really comprehensive eight-week training programme".
Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he subsequently served as a regular officer in the Grenadier Guards before leaving to become a photographer's trainee in 1962, much to the consternation of his parents who viewed the move as akin to going into trade.
Morshead was passed over in favour of Oliver Leese, a British regular officer, who was junior to him and had never commanded a division in action.
Once again, he had a talented regular officer as chief of staff, Brigadier Ragnar Garrett, with whom he had worked in Greece during 1941 and more recently in New Guinea.
The 1st Division was made up of the 1st Infantry Brigade under Colonel Henry MacLaurin, an Australian-born officer with previous part-time military service; the 2nd, under Colonel James Whiteside McCay, an Irish-born Australian politician and former Minister for Defence; and the 3rd, under Colonel Ewen Sinclair-Maclagan, a British regular officer seconded to the Australian Army before the war.
The 1st Division was made up of the 1st Infantry Brigade under Colonel Henry MacLaurin; the 2nd, under Colonel James Whiteside McCay, an Australian politician and former Minister for Defence; and the 3rd, under Colonel Ewen Sinclair-Maclagan, a British regular officer seconded to the Australian Army before the war.
Pavle Đurišić (, ; 9 July 1909 April 194545) was a Montenegrin Serb regular officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army who became a Chetnik commander (vojvoda) and led a significant proportion of the Chetniks in Montenegro during World War II.
