commissioned officer

A telegraphed order to the commander of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry ordered a commissioned officer, Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty, to report to Luther Byron Baker.

VMI has said over the years that it’s one of the highest producers of minority commissioned officers.

The newly commissioned officers will serve at least five years.

The academy in Annapolis educates more than 4,400 midshipmen who graduate as commissioned officers in the Navy or Marine Corps.

The current police chief is Black, as are about 58 percent of the department’s commissioned officers.