How to Use general officer in a Sentence

general officer

noun
  • Flag and general officers are not mere conduits of orders.
    — Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Kendall added that one of his general officers was recently taunted by a Chinese counterpart.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The congratulatory peck has gone by the wayside, as dozens of women have since become general officers.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Removal for loss of confidence typically kills the career of a general officer.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Instead, the indelible image of the end of the War in Afghanistan is the lone soldier – and again, a general officer – boarding the last plane out.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • These purges have also called the military’s strength into question—in in the last two months, as many as half of the army’s general officers have been arrested or relieved of duty.
    — Ryan Gingeras, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2016
  • There are folks who are expressing very serious concern about a general officer so soon assuming the civilian leadership.
    — CBS News, 9 Dec. 2020
  • First, an active-duty general officer rarely denounces the command style of a former commander-in-chief so explicitly.
    — chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Maryland could then request a review of the decision by a general officer assigned to the bureau, said Air Force Maj.
    — USA Today, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Each general officer was given a portion of tickets for the event, McKee spokesman Matthew Sheaff said.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Hegseth orders ‘historic’ reduction of general officers in the military.
    — FOXNews.com, 6 May 2025
  • The verdict marks the first court-martial trial and conviction of a general officer in the Air Force's 75-year history.
    — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Russia has also suffered a relatively high number of fatalities among its general officer ranks.
    — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Officials said the verdict marks the first court-martial trial and conviction of a general officer in the Air Force’s 75-year history.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In addition, another six future general officers could be found among the twenty-two Royal Artillery officers in the column.
    — / Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
  • The governor was a Navy judge advocate general officer, a position that took him to Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Adriana Gomez Licon, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Long-standing tradition says that, to protect the principle of civilian control over the military, general officers should not resign in protest against lawful orders given by the president.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Xi's nationwide campaign against graft and corruption has not spared the PLA, with general officers sacked for taking bribes and enriching themselves at the expense of the armed services.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The upcoming meeting follows Hegseth’s directive to reduce the number of general officers by 20 percent as the administration eyes changes to where troops are placed across the globe.
    — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Firings of general officers are relatively rare and have historically followed public scandals.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The conversation is the first since Tuberville began holding up staff and general officer nominations and promotions for several months over his objection to the policy.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
  • If an investigation is launched, commanders worry that general officers will dispose of these allegations negatively rather than appear lenient.
    — S.l. Nelson, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2024
  • That was the case this past weekend when social media claims were made that among the houses destroyed in the tragic Los Angeles fires were homes belonging to at least eight Ukrainian military general officers.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • If multiple legacies are at risk, flag officers will develop and implement more objective metrics for recommending general officer positions.
    — S.l. Nelson, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Sullivan revealed that the military expects Tuberville’s blockade to affect 89 percent of all general officer positions, across all branches.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Efflandt, the report stated eight officers and non-commissioned officers would be given general officer memorandums of reprimand, with another person told they’ll be relieved.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Cooley, whose career with the Air Force began in 1988, was the first general officer in his service’s history to be criminally prosecuted.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Formalizing the investigation requires the investigating general officer to gather the facts and produce a report on the findings and issue recommendations.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 28 June 2023
  • Generations of general officers like Kelly cultivated the exclusively male warrior Marine ideal at the exclusion of women.
    — Kate Germano, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The memo also directs the Pentagon to cut the number of general officers in the National Guard by 20 percent, and to slash the total of general and flag officers across the military by 10 percent.
    — Adeola Adeosun gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025

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