What is "non-commissioned officers"

Usage examples of "non-commissioned officers".

But these are not regular soldiers, and we are short of non-commissioned officers.

He had six special-forces non-commissioned officers and his XO with him.

Some men and armaments and other necessaries were made available to him, but he had to raise the rest himself, and so he did the natural thing and recruited many soldiers and non-commissioned officers from his father’.

What this meant was that the privates were greenhorns, who had been workmen or farm workers, but the commissioned and non-commissioned officers were peace-time, part-time soldiers whose real occupation lay far from war or any serious Army life.

Sometimes Briggs wished for one of the enlisted and non-commissioned officers' rooms, which were nice, modern, air-conditioned dormitory-style brick buildings.