adjutant:

( short form ‘adjt‘ or ‘adj‘; plural: ‘adjutants‘)

Mike Kenny, Adjutant, USMC (Viet Nam)

a clerk in a military office; an officer responsible for the office work in the army;

(in some armies) a ranked officer who assists a more senior officer;

an aide/aide-de-camp,

e.g.

One of my uncles is an adjutant to the special reserve.

Different armies use the rank ‘adjutant’ for different positions.

Note 1: ‘Adjutant’ is also used as a short form for a kind of Indian stork called “adjutant bird” or “adjutant stork”.

Note 2: “Adjutant General”, on the other hand, is the chief administrative officer in the US army.

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