| Western militaries are typically small, professional organizations officered by the middle class and filled by working-class volunteers. |
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| It was six months before Andrew got a command, but then of troops purposely ill-equipped, poorly officered and virtually untrained. |
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| Thus most of the 380,000 blacks who served in the Army were in labor units officered by whites. |
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| It expanded by calling upon the states for militia, officered by men chosen and characterized by bonds of friendship, popularity, and politics. |
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| The navy, of course, was commanded and largely officered by Royal Navy personnel. |
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| The Streltsy and the Cossacks were professional units but they were officered by foreigners. |
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| The division's fighting elements were 8,000 Philippine Scouts, officered by Americans, a US infantry regiment some 2,000 strong, and a regiment of artillery. |
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| Pulaski's Legion consisted mostly of British and German deserters, and was officered by a motley mix of Poles and other expatriate Europeans. |
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| They were undoubtedly brave but hurridly trained, and in many cases poorly officered. |
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| They finished training in December 1942 and three battalions of 1,000 men each were formed, but they were officered by Germans who gave their orders in German. |
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| Under him it remained a force of peasants and of numerous foreign recruits obtained often by outright kidnapping, officered by landowners. |
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| The troops of the imperial levy fought alongside the regular army in national units, were armed according to their individual customs, but were usually officered by Persians. |
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| Until 1939 it was officered by a small permanent army. |
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| It became less Roman, the duties of border protection and territorial administration being more and more taken by foreign mercenaries officered by Romans. |
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