In the old days they would have had no chance to become professional officers.

What I think you are, is a professional officer who's never learned to play the political game.

The most immediate reason was the lack of professional officers.

And a professional officer at that, a product of the long, gray line.

After the war, it became obvious that the nation needed professional officers to lead its Army.

However, professional officers were permanent soldiers and paid by the state.

They headed down the corridor together, three professional officers from the same great family, whose needs always came first.

At division level and below mostly professional officers were in command.

They were the full-time professional officers of the Roman army.

It was not a professional officer who came through the door, but a great hulk of a man.

He's considered to be a professional officer, knowledgeable in migration issues.

I'm a professional officer on my second hitch in command of a company.

He was a professional officer, who was considered a natural born leader.

As a professional officer, such thoughts weren't supposed to even enter into the equation.

She would later become a professional officer in the Spanish Army.

They also organized a centralized general staff and a professional officer corps.

A further difference between the army and the police was that the professional officer corps had the task of leading the revolution.

A centurion was a professional officer of the Roman army.

He started his career as a professional officer, but retired from the army in 1919 to become a forester.

In a draft army, all decisions are made by professional officers, with the chain of command running up to the president.

Professional officers would be commissioned as Fregattenleutnant, the next higher rank.

Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer.

"And you well know that the personal comfort or discomfort of a professional officer is irrelevant.

But a spokesman said the murder was painstakingly investigated by professional officers.