field grade
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of field grade
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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It was the same in Iraq, where her dogged attention to responsibility and detail earned her a Meritorious Service Medal - awarded for outstanding performance to field grade officers like Tami Mielke.
From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2014
As a consequence there are a lot of field grade officers who would be glad to have the quarters in which our noncoms are living.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men like Charles L. Ricks, one of the 696 Aggies killed in World War II, who lives in my memory as the finest field grade officer I ever knew.
From Time Magazine Archive
U.N. forces last week also honored a white flag'borne by a Communist lieutenant colonel, the first North Korean officer of field grade to surrender since the fighting began.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chronic shortage of black field grade officers in the 332d was the immediate cause of the change in Air Force policy.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.
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