Sentences with colonel
colo·nel
C c - This particular place was run by an ex-Army colonel.
- When the vice president visited the state he was made a Kentucky colonel.
- The Pentagon did not identify the other panel members, but said they were three colonels and a lieutenant colonel.
- Ted rose to the rank of colonel at the war's end serving as the 26th Infantry Regiment Commander.
- The admiral was said to be interested in inviting upper middle grade officers, army colonels and navy captains, to observe US military exercises as a way to establish contact with the next generation of Chinese military leaders.
- Many lieutenant colonels and colonels express frustration at being labeled as poor mentors, and portrayed as contributing to the attrition of captains.
- There are a thousand colonels in the army who'd give their eye teeth for this chance.
- He retired as a colonel in the air force.
- In the past year I have met midshipmen, Air Force cadets, colonels at the Army War College, officers in the Pentagon, air and naval crews at sea, reserve and retired officers, and a variety of civilian defense analysts.
- The Defense Department announced on Friday that the President has formally nominated three colonels for promotion to Brigadier General.
- As a general rule, however, military intellectuals tend to face mandatory retirement as lieutenant colonels or colonels, just as they are achieving full intellectual maturity.
- Captain John C. Putnam, a clerk before the war, allegedly lobbied Governor Andrew for the colonelcy of the regiment.
- Some of these officers are now lieutenant colonels and colonels in the Army Reserve.
- There are several interesting issues here, such as the much-vaunted discovery that Army colonels increasingly self-identify as Republicans.
- After 12 years of teaching ethics at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, I have learned a few lessons from the lieutenant colonels and colonels I've taught.
- Second, after Lee had resigned the colonelcy in December, his successor-in-rank, Palfrey, resigned his commission in April 1863; in fact, badly wounded at Antietam, he had never returned to the field.
- Despite an apology to the king for ‘unguarded expressions’ he was dismissed his post as lord-lieutenant of the West Riding and lost his colonelcy in the militia.
- The problem is that many military generals and colonels and lieutenant-colonels do their own thing.