This week America's top military officer expressed support for the proposal at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

One Confederate officer, trying to prevent his troops from moving back, pointed to a group led by General T.J.Jackson of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Stephen Ryan is the communications officer for youth and volunteers at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

On Thursday, the chief executive officer of BP faced hours of intense questioning at a House of Representatives hearing.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

President-elect Obama has chosen the chief executive officer of the Chicago schools, Arne Duncan, to become his education secretary.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Poe served in the Army for two years, before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point to become an officer.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

He became a lieutenant after boxing champion Joe Louis pushed for Robinson to be trained as an officer.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Sometimes on television crime dramas you might hear a police officer or a suspect say someone was "eighty-sixed,"

VOA: special.2010.01.08

That was only one of the many times Bill Tilghman used his gun as a law officer.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

He became an officer in the Army during America's war with Mexico in the late eighteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

One of them was Louis Wigfall, a former United States senator from Texas, now a Confederate officer.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

But he is president and chief operating officer of Best Doctors, a medical company in Boston, Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

In South Carolina,for example, the new governor was a former army officer from the state of Ohio.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Night fell. Then,a militia officer, Captain Sinn, walked up to the small building held by Brown.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

One young girl he met in Germany was Priscilla Beaulieu, the daughter of an Army officer.

VOA: special.2010.04.04