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General Line Officer and general line (military) are missing. I attempted to do something, but my expertise was sufficient only for disambiguation of general line. Dzied Bulbash (talk) 00:36, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
History
editA much more probable origin of the term "line officer" is the drawn up lines of opposing armies of 18th century and earlier Europe. Officers commanding infantry and artillery units in the battle lines were "officers of the line", as opposed to officers serving in support functions who did not have direct contact with the enemy. Allan Akbar (talk) 11:59, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Clothing Makes the Man...er, Officer
editIn discussing line officers in the Navy, this article states: "Line officers wear an inverted gold star above their rank stripes on their dress blue uniforms and, in the case of Captains and below, on their shoulder boards in whites. Line officer admirals will wear solid gold shoulder boards with a silver metallic thread anchor and one, two, three or four silver metallic thread stars below the anchor. When wearing khakis or utility/working uniforms, they wear their rank insignia on both collar points. The Navy refers to non-line officers as Staff Corps officers. Both Line and Staff Corps officers may be assigned as "staff officers" serving on the staff of a senior officer. Staff Corps officers wear their corps insignia, rather than the line officer's star, placed over their sleeve/shoulder board stripes on blues and whites and on their left collar point on khakis and utility/working uniforms in lieu of matching pin-on rank insignia on the right collar point." Is half of the section devoted to the uniform of line officers really necessary? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.16 (talk) 12:17, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
2023 discussion
editIt appears no one has taken a look at this page in quite some time. I would like to point out that the term "Line Officer" is and was in broader use than strictly the United States Military. There are exhaustive uses of it throughout several (predominantly European, though not exclusively) militaries. Not to mention, it has been used as a rank in some intelligence services. The article ought to be updates to reflect this, but I don't know what a major overhaul like that would look like. Uhtregorn (talk) 05:25, 19 September 2023 (UTC)