With experience and additional training, third officers may qualify for higher rank.

After completing probation, an officer may qualify for a weapon of his/her choice.

In proud eagerness, the officer qualified.

Security concerns also increased the difficulty of recruiting officers qualified for counterterrorism.

Only first officers qualify for this one.

And some departments allow both types of weapons if officers qualify for each.

Very few officers qualify for food stamps.

"Or executive officer, at least," Phipps qualified, reflecting that in a two-man ship Don could hardly be less.

"That should be meant literally, not that every officer who went to the Police Academy qualifies as an expert."

Some 609 officers, men and marines of Wellesley qualified for the China Medal.