Greenhorns

Usage examples of rookies.

The two reinforcing squadrons would go a long way toward evening the odds, but half the starfighter pilots were rookies who couldn't be expected to hold their own against the Yuuzhan Vong, and the experienced pilots would be distracted by having to look after them.

She wanted her squadron in single file because it was easier for the rookies to keep up.

At least her rookies hadn't blown her tail off, which under these conditions had to count as a success.

The rookies needed much more training before they'd have a chance of surviving against the Yuuzhan Vong, and she wouldn't be there to supervise it.

I've got eleven other pilots in my squadron to look after, and half of them are rookies, and if I don't beat them to pieces in training, the Vong arc going to blow them to pieces in combat.

Her six rookies were now proud veterans, all with kills to their credit.

Jaina's own rookies had been blooded, but they'd been blooded in battles where great pains had been taken to assure only victory.

Like Paul McLanahan, Tom Chandler had been one of the department’s hot young rookies when he came on the force twenty-five years ago.

Sacramento Police Department uniforms, especially for rookies, are as plain as can be, but on his little brother it looked as sharp as a tuxedo.

McLanahan didn’t seem to be cocky, but it was always best to nail the rookies on one or two uniform items just to keep them from thinking that their shit didn’t stink.

The department usually took weeks to schedule that class, so the rookies had to absorb as much as they could about the complicated system as they went along.

Whatever this crop of rookies had been before they got here, it was Brandy's job to make them into legionnaires.

Now he was pitting raw rookies against Gambolts, the most respected fighters known.

He could see the astronauts at the graveside, the row of them, rookies and veterans alike, all with their heads turned up to the jets.

The Atlanta Eagles had begun summer training and the rookies were reporting.