What is "noncommissioned officers"

Usage examples of "noncommissioned officers".

And you know the old maxim--rely on your noncommissioned officers and you'll never get a bum steer.

Team or anything else they wanted to, but as far as General Harke was concerned, nine men was a squad, and there should be a sergeant as a squad leader, not a captain, and a corporal assistant squad leader and seven privates or specialists, not a second officer and seven noncommissioned officers.

For each two firing points, there was a training NCO, so-called even though most of them were PFCs and not noncommissioned officers.

The other ninety percent of you, the noncommissioned officers, the backbone of the army, are doubtless at this moment entertaining certain questions.

The noise level grew louder when the officers and senior noncommissioned officers of the other companies in the battalion crowded in behind them, then were followed by all the officers and senior NCOs from the rest of the FIST’.

The noise level grew louder when the officers and senior noncommissioned officers of the other companies in the battalion crowded in behind them, then were followed by all the officers and senior NCOs from the rest of the FIST's units, including the FIST and battalion headquarters.

Next came celebratory parties in the Officers' Club, the Noncommissioned Officers' Club, and the Enlisted Men's Club, each of which was attended briefly by the commandant.

Macklin therefore had had a quiet word with several of the noncommissioned officers in the school.

The real object of the patrol was to see if the junior officers and noncommissioned officers of the 257th were learning anything.

It was part of the orientation for all officers and noncommissioned officers of 26th FIST when we first arrived.

Army Special Warfare School, the sergeant major of the school, and three other of the school's senior noncommissioned officers were sitting in fatigue uniform on the floor of the living room drinking beer.

After that, he regularly and frequently augmented his income by putting his money where his mouth was when other senior staff noncommissioned officers questioned the accuracy of the Garand.

WESTON STATED THAT IT IS FERTIG'S POLICY TO RAISE US OFFICERS WHO PLACE THEMSELVES UNDER HIS COMMAND AT LEAST ONE RANK IN USFIP, AND TO COMMISSION US NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS IN USFIP.

It was intended to provide a place for the staff noncommissioned officers-the three senior pay grades-to go for a beer when they came off duty tired, hot, and dirty.