WordNet
n. a male enlisted person in the armed forces
Usage examples of "enlisted man".
He looked for a second, then let go and turned to the enlisted man.
Every liberated village in France, and later in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Austria, was full of wine, cognac, brandy, and other fine liquor, of a quality and in a quantity quite unknown to the average enlisted man.
A Marine brigadier general, a pilot, who had been in the trenches in France as an enlisted man with Corporal Fleming Pickering, USMC, had saved his old buddy's son from a Marine Corps career as a club officer by arranging to have him sent to flight school.
It is not in keeping with the principles of good leadership to eat the ass out of an enlisted man just before you ask him to parachute onto an enemy-held island.
Never before had an enlisted man-not even a Master Gunnery Sergeant when he had been a wet-behind-the-ears shavetail-talked to him the way this twenty-one-year-old corporal was talking to him now.
No matter what an enlisted man decided, it could be improved upon by any officer.
I know your sense of propriety is offended by being under the command of an enlisted man.
Early in the morning, they hoist an enlisted man into a tree with a canteen, a watch, and a mirror.
But it's impossible for any service to keep secrets from its top enlisted man.
In this case, each officer and enlisted man was told that he could stay if he wished to do so.
For one thing, I happen to know that until very recently, Rutterman was an enlisted man who guarded the door at Colonel Rickabee's place of business.
He was perfectly willing to throw an enlisted man to the wolves so he would look good-a PFC or a corporal, Jake now remembered, although he couldn't come up with a face or a name.