second lieutenant

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Definition of second lieutenant

: a commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the army, air force, or marine corps

Examples of second lieutenant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After his graduation from West Point in 1992, Donahue served as a second lieutenant in the infantry branch. — NBC News, 1 Sep. 2021 While serving as a second lieutenant in the Army, Stockwell was driving with her unit from the airport to the Green Zone in Baghdad when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. — Taylor Dutc, SELF, 27 Aug. 2021 Daniel Gottlieb is a second lieutenant who is enrolled in law school at the University of Miami. — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021 After the outbreak of the war he was commissioned a second lieutenant and underwent additional training at Craig Field in Selma, Alabama. — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2021 He was discharged in June 1945 to attend the US Military Academy at West Point, graduating four years later with a commission as a second lieutenant. — Brad Lendon, CNN, 21 May 2021 Laurio, a software engineering major, will be commissioned as a second lieutenant by the Air Force ROTC Detachment 620. — cleveland, 24 May 2021 This gallery is named after Detroit's first Black mayor who was also a second lieutenant, bombardier and navigator in the Tuskegee Airmen. — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 28 May 2021 The son of a Welsh lord, Jones, a second lieutenant in the Indian Army Reserve, was captured after the disastrous siege of Kūt-al-‘Amāra, in what is now Iraq, in April 1916. — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 26 May 2021

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“Second lieutenant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/second%20lieutenant. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.

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