lieutenant colonel
light colonel

Which is why, he seemed to say, you're still only a lieutenant colonel in the Army.

He had been a lieutenant colonel longer than just about anyone in the army.

The young lieutenant colonel didn't give him a chance to say anything.

He was a lieutenant colonel at the end of the second world war.

You're not a real lieutenant colonel, you just know how to play political games.

"You think you're going to make lieutenant colonel while I'm still here?"

But he simply wasn't bright enough to be a lieutenant colonel.

From 1795 he was a lieutenant colonel in the regular army.

He might have been a lieutenant colonel, but he'd learned to move like a red Indian.

He served as lieutenant colonel in the War of 1812.