commissioned officer

They touted his war record as a non-commissioned officer in Vietnam, where he earned a purple heart.

Ney was fortunate in that he had not to spend long years as a non-commissioned officer with no obvious future before him.

The sergeant's reply was: "Sire, how can a non-commissioned officer dine with a general?"

The non-commissioned officer was a tall Kentuckian, over six feet high, lank and raw-boned.

At one of the military stations we took on a guard of a dozen or fifteen soldiers under command of a non-commissioned officer.

But in the modesty of the non-commissioned officer Bruce had underrated his own prominence in Indian eyes.