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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Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Halem served about 13 years as an officer before becoming a reserve officer.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

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

Those records detail issues including a felony theft charge filed against Bird in 1996 after he failed to return a pistol he’d been issued as a Yakima County sheriff reserve officer after leaving.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

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