Wiktionary
n. (context military US English) A non-commissioned officer of rank E-7 in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above a staff sergeant and below a master sergeant or first sergeant.
WordNet
n. a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant in the marines
Wikipedia
Gunnery Sergeant (GySgt) is the seventh enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps, just above Staff Sergeant and below Master Sergeant and First Sergeant, and is a staff non-commissioned officer (SNCO). It has a pay grade of E-7.
The Gunnery Sergeant insignia consists of two M1 Garands centered vertically between three chevrons and two rockers.
Usage examples of "gunnery sergeant".
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.
He sort of missed being around a motor pool, but you couldn't work in a motor pool if you were a gunnery sergeant, and it was nice being a gunny.
As he invariably did when he went for a ride in the jeep with a PFC at the wheel, he thought about how much he'd liked it better when he'd been a master gunnery sergeant with the pickup and didn't have to sit like a statue on an uncomfortable pad in the jeep.
But I don't have an empty gunnery sergeant billet to put him into--and I don't want to give him up to some other command either.
It is under the command of the ground forces commander, who happens to be Gunnery Sergeant Bass.
Nor did he mention the ambush that killed Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men with him.
He had reported the Cheereek sighting to Gunnery Sergeant Bass, who then took Kerr and his fire team to Captain Conorado to repeat the story.
Charlie Bass knew his only alternative was to accept whatever gunnery sergeant billet in 34th FIST he was assigned to, wait for a platoon commander in the FIST's infantry battalion to get killed, then hope for a reshuffling of officers that would open his job back up.
They were reaching for a shotgun shell when Gunnery Sergeant Lai appeared out of the mist.
The company began to pour fire down on the scummy positions surrounding the sewage ditch bridgehead as the gunnery sergeant slid down the rope.
The gunnery sergeant turned from specifying positions and fields of fire with Corporal Casset and glanced at the prince.
If they offer me, say, gunnery sergeant, and I take it, then what?
But if they offer me gunnery sergeant and I turn it down, and get out, they damned sure wont call me back as a captain.
When I was a battalion commander, I had a master gunnery sergeant who made it pretty clear that he thought he could run the battalion at least as well as I could.
If they of-fer me, say, gunnery sergeant, and I take it, then what?