Some articles on officer, officers:
... An officer of arms is a person appointed by a sovereign or state with authority to perform one or more of the following functions to control and initiate armorial matters to arrange and participate in ... Traditionally, officers of arms are of three ranks kings of arms, heralds of arms, and pursuivants of arms ... Officers of arms whose appointments are of a permanent nature are known as officers of arms in ordinary those whose appointments are of a temporary or occasional nature are known as officers of arms ...
... itself, there were three distinct levels private soldiers, non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers ... Commissioned officers within the Gurkha regiments held a Viceroy's Commission, which was distinct from the King's or Queen's Commission that British officers ... holding a commission was technically subordinate to any British officer, regardless of rank ...
... Lane was the first officer to be slain on duty since the end of the Vietnam War ... Taylor was the first female police officer killed in the line of duty in Australian history. 12 October 1988, officers Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre were gunned down in the Walsh Street police shootings ...
... Since December 25, 1806, the NYPD has lost 781 officers in the line of duty, the most-recent officer being lost on December 12, 2011 ... This figure includes officers from agencies that were absorbed by or became a part of the modern NYPD in addition to the modern department itself ... This number also includes officers killed on and off duty by gunfire of other officers on duty ...
... Attempts to learn what had happened were hampered by the German officers instructing their sailors to obfuscate the enemy with false answers, people describing events they did not witness ... Initially, the sailors were imprisoned at Harvey while the officers were imprisoned at Swanbourne Barracks, but after interrogations were concluded in December, they were all relocated to prisoner ... Afrika Korps, and their shipmates rescued by Aquitania, while officers were sent to the Dhurringile homestead ...
Famous quotes containing the word officers:
“Now for civil service reform. Legislation must be prepared and executive rules and maxims. We must limit and narrow the area of patronage. We must diminish the evils of office-seeking. We must stop interference of federal officers with elections. We must be relieved of congressional dictation as to appointments.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme—mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.”
—Bernard Ingham (b. 1932)