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reserve officer

American  

noun

  1. a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.


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The author, who is also a reserve officer in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Brigadier General Ariel Heimann – also a reservist and a former chief reserve officer - says Israel is too small a country to have a large, expensive, professional, regular army.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

Eventually, the reserve officer in charge that night, Sgt.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Meijer, who is from Grand Rapids, is a former Army reserve officer who served in Iraq.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2023

I had been warned by one of the men in our group who had been through reserve officer training that this would happen to me.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

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