Sentence examples for combat officers from inspiring English sources

"In combat, officers eat last," Mr. Cleland said.

And Mohr, as Sheehan noted, almost immediately bonded with Beckwith, who became one of the war's most celebrated combat officers.

Fifty-two cofficersficers and soldiers in the Israeli Army Reserve signed a statement declaring that they would refuse to serve again in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Here, they make up about 10percentt of the staff officers, 15percentt of the combat support officers and up to 40percentt of the combat officers, the colonel said.

A1 Dissent in Israeli Ranks More than 100 Israeli Army reservists, including combat officers and soldiers, said in a newspaper statement that they would refuse to continue serving in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because they objected to Israeli tactics.

Neil Sheehan thought he got on so well with the best combat officers because he was so much like them -- he was from a small town, had hunted and fished as a boy and had hungered to get out and find adventure.

Ingraham's career as a combat officer lasted only a matter of minutes.

"If Charley had not been a great journalist he might have been a great combat officer," Sheehan said.

General Weyand (pronounced WY-und), one of the rare top commanders who did not attend West Point, began serving as a combat officer in Vietnam in 1966.

He served as a war correspondent in 1914 15 and, after the United States entered World War I in 1917, as a combat officer.

He fought on the Somme in 1916 and became the first black combat officer in the British army, despite a military rule excluding "negroes" from exercising actual command.