noncom

Example Sentences

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Instead, he played piano at enlisted men’s clubs in Japan and Hawaii, composing ditties deriding officers and senior noncoms in his unit.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

A year later, as American troops clung to the Italian beachhead at Anzio in some of the war’s bloodiest fighting, the sergeant and two other noncoms in his unit won battlefield commissions as second lieutenants.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2016

By now we were being urged by braver and more sensible noncoms and one or two surviving officers to get off the beach and up to higher ground.

From Time Magazine Archive

Worse, low re-enlistment rates have left all the services with critical shortages of skilled career people—pilots, electronic technicians, Navy petty officers, Army noncoms.

From Time Magazine Archive

A colonel came down the beach with his entourage, exhorting the noncoms and junior officers to re-form and improvise squads.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson