Your commission as a line officer automatically makes you senior to him, of course.
Or, at least, to advance beyond that rank as a line officer.
"Not as well as you seem to, but I've heard the same from other line officers."
Motivation of line officers, however, may count for less than a police department's managerial approach.
You'll be in total and complete command, even over the line officers who have agreed to help us with this.
Now the front line officers learned the plans had been changed.
You are not currently a line officer on this ship.
The chief, the senior line officer in the department, reports to the director.
For a time I made quite a bit of money playing cards with the line officers and other doctors.
He was the only person in the room who wasn't a ship's master, or a line officer.
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