second lieutenant in English

noun
1
a commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps ranking above chief warrant officer and below first lieutenant.
Drew was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in April 1986.

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1. promoted to second lieutenant.

2. The need for an insignia for the second lieutenant became urgent.

3. Upon graduating in September 1785, Bonaparte was commissioned a second lieutenant in La Fère artillery regiment.

4. On February 28, 1865, was commissioned a second lieutenant for bravery on the field of battle.

5. For majors, the shoulder strap contained an oak leaf, but like the second lieutenant, the epaulette had no grade insignia.

6. The second lieutenant had no grade insignia, but the presence of an epaulette or shoulder strap identified him as a commissioned officer.

7. Concentration Camp Kaiserwald and the Barrackings Excursus II: SS Second Lieutenant Fritz Scherwitz, The Commander at Lenta: A Biographical Sketch Chapter 19

8. However, the major was still distinguishable from the second lieutenant due to the more elaborate epaulette fringes worn by field grade officers.

9. During the Second World War, while serving as a Second lieutenant, Raina was injured in a grenade accident which resulted in the loss of an eye.

10. As the shoulder knots had no fringe, it was necessary that some change in the insignia on the dress uniform be made in order to distinguish the major from the second lieutenant.

11. Unable to afford the tuition, Hata enrolled in the Army Cadet School instead, going on to graduate in the 12th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1901 as a second lieutenant in the artillery.

12. Second Lieutenant Heymans Breda (ハイマンスブレダ, Haimansu Bureda) is an Amestrian soldier initially stationed at the East Area Headquarters in East City and one of Colonel Roy Mustang's most trusted subordinates, handpicked by the Flame Alchemist for his outstanding abilities and qualities

13. Second-Lieutenant Arnold Gyde, of the 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment, who was the author of "Contemptible - A Personal Recollection of the 'Retreat from Mons' by a British Infantry Officer," under the nom-de-plume of "Casualty." Alfred Arnold Ernest Gyde was born in October 1894 and was the son of Ernest and Sybil Mary Boone Gyde.

14. Dominique Amigou Mendy, born August 4, 1909 in Ziguinchor, Senegal, discusses his early life as a farmer in Casamance, a volunteer in World War I, and a second lieutenant in the Free French Forces; his return to Senegal in 1918; joining the merchant marines in Dakar in 1929 as a mechanic; his response to Degaulle's speech June 18, 1940; training as a photographer in France; joining the