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Duty officer at the US Army's Garrison Hohenfels operations center. A duty officer or officer of the day is a worker assigned a position on a regularly rotational basis. While on duty, duty officers attend to administrative tasks and incidents that require attention regardless of the time of day, in addition to the officer's normal duties.
A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the ...
Officer in Charge (usually "OIC") is a very widely used term which may refer to: Duty officer Officer in Charge (Philippines) , interim position in the context of Philippine governance.
[4] [5] Some sections may also be under the command of an "Officer-In-Charge" (OIC), typically a company-grade-officer (CGO) at the rank of second lieutenant (O-1) or first lieutenant (O-2). Examples of sections include "Outbound Assignments" within the "Military Personnel Flight" of the "Force Support Squadron" and the "Avionics Intermediate ...
Detective sergeants are in charge of all criminal investigations at a barracks, or may be assigned to other investigative functions. Sergeants act as shift commanders or duty officers. Corporals are the first-line supervisors and are usually assigned as road supervisors within barracks. In the absence of a sergeant, they may act as the duty ...
A command duty officer (CDO, on a naval ship) or officer of the watch (OOW, on a merchant ship) is the head duty officer (officer of the day) on a ship, entrusted by the commanding officer and executive officer (on a naval ship) or the shipmaster (on a merchant ship) with exercising in their absence command and control of the ship on their behalf for the duration of a watch.
A superior officer is an officer with a higher rank than another officer, who is a subordinate officer relative to the superior. NCOs, including U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard petty officers and chief petty officers, in positions of authority can be said to have control or charge rather than command per se (although the word "command" is often ...
CO – Commanding Officer; COA – Course of Action; COB – Chief Of the Boat (Chief Petty Officer in charge of the Boat usually a Master Chief (USN Submariner Terminology)) CoB – Close of Business (End of the duty day) COCOM – Combatant Commander; CODELS – Congressional Delegations; COL – Colonel; COMINT – Communications Intelligence