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n. (first sergeant English)
Usage examples of "first sergeants".
I'd like you to get with the battalion command sergeant major and the company first sergeants as to billeting.
Unfortunately, none of them spoke Japanese, although four of them had apparently managed to utter enough Japanese-sounding noises to convince their first sergeants that they did.
There were tank commanders and cartographers, first sergeants and budget analysts, infantry platoon sergeants and medical corps x-ray technicians.
There was only one company commander present and half the first sergeants were still out.
He had been asked already and repeatedly by the company first sergeants.
The first sergeants of every company in the FIST sat behind them, keeping close watch on everyone.
The use of the nickname, reserved for company first sergeants, and only as a sign of respect, indicated that the captain might actually agree with the NCOs assessment of the situation.
Most of the companies had staff sergeants as first sergeants, if they were lucky, and often only sergeant E-5s.
He began walking toward the line, the first sergeants voice turning his direction into a tersely-radioed order.
Platoon sergeants, battalion staff NCOs and first sergeants, the senior noncommissioned officers, had quarters on one side of the area and the platoon leaders, company commanders and battalion staff had quarters on the other.
And she had dropped her voice to a whisper, though it was a whisper louder than most first sergeants' commands.
His senior staff, company commanders, and first sergeants looked somber and reflective, but none had anything to ask.