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n. (petty officer English)
Usage examples of "petty officers".
All these military and navy people, most of 'em in CoDominium uniforms, General Owensford dressed down as a light colonel of the Legion, General Slater in Royal Sparta uniform like Admiral Forrest, and they come with petty officers and sergeants and every one of them wearing sidearms.
Most of the petty officers were yanked out of regional headquarters.
The officers and petty officers aboard this ship are the pick of the U.
One of the trio outside started to climb over the gate to get her share, despite the petty officers angry command.
This was the kind of work best left to the supervision of their sergeants and petty officers, but the young lieutenant couldn't permit himself to slack off, and he didn't let his midshipmen do so either.
He couldn't make it out any better than the two petty officers, but he could tell the cruiser was too recent to have a hull number that began with ".
Except for those two, Cziller and Plekhanov had stripped off every midshipman aboard, and many of the better petty officers as well.
He's got a couple of petty officers with him, but his primary function is to coordinate communications.
The proper bit was already in place, and under the watchful eyes of Kelly and two petty officers he drilled a series of holes in the forward six inches of the hollow steel rod.
As familiar and joking as Petty Officers Jackson and Swofford might get with Lieutenant Commander Damana, Cardones could sense an invisible line which neither of them would ever cross.
We'll try to have your warrant and petty officers all lined up by then, too, and General Vonderhoff assures me your Marine complements won't present any problem.
Given the rush with which her ships had been manned, they were stretched tight for personnel, and Tschu was right about his lack of senior petty officers.
A knot of chiefs and petty officers appeared in the port passageway by the galley.
The Navy's enlisted men's uniform was worn by everybody but chief petty officers.