lieutenant colonel

noun

U.S. Military.

lieutenant colonel

an officer holding commissioned rank immediately junior to a colonel in certain armies, air forces, and marine corps

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First recorded in 1590–1600

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“She said she was lieutenant colonel in the GRU,” Perlowin, now 74, told The Times, referring to the Soviet Union’s military intelligence agency.

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Charity Adams, who, after being promoted to lieutenant colonel, became the highest ranking Black woman in the U.S.

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Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served in Iraq, has long been critical of foreign policy establishment.

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The pilot is Scott “Kidd” Poteet, 50, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel.

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By war’s end, he was a lieutenant colonel, and he came back to L.A. persuaded that America needed to keep its peacetime ears on a wartime footing.

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