group captain

noun

1. an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces

Example Sentences

One senior recruitment officer, a female group captain, has already resigned her post in protest after recruitment at RAF Cranwell was slowed down to look at ways of boosting diversity.

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“It’s a relief,” said Ray White, a group captain for volunteer fire brigades north of Sydney, where serious fires have been burning since July.

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On another, we are herded by our group captains into doing a cutesy Superman pose.

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On Hogan’s Heroes, he played the incompetent Crittendon, a Royal Air Force group captain referred to as the colonel.

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Ellen Chiweshe, whose title was group captain, has been promoted to become the southern African country's first female Air Commodore, the No. 3 post in the air force.

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