What is "warrant officers"

Usage examples of "warrant officers".

And on two other days, he would receive the lieutenants and the warrant officers.

Most of the SF warrant officers were ninety-day wonders, junior SF NCOs or even non-SF NCOs who were sent through a warrant officer's course to become the second-in-command of a team.

The midshipmen and warrant officers, all but Adele herself and Woetjans—.

Daniel preferred to have Adele bunking there in a crisis rather than in the Warrant Officers' Quarters.

Then they were beheaded by one or another of the three warrant officers-using swords, according to Japanese Naval tradition.

All other messages were delivered by either his secretary or, in the case of Eyes-Only, by one of the Signal Corps officers or warrant officers in the message center.

Corporal aint a rank really, all it means is you're the senior shit-kicker among the troops and are equally despised by the sergeants and warrant officers.

Some of the warrant officers and older seamen were probably thinking that had such comments been made on the mess deck or in a barrack room they would be branded as treasonable.

Don't I wish I had given it to him myself, the b - r,' added Killick in a low voice when he was sure that Jack could not hear, for the purser objected to Killick's way of robbing the foremast hands, the Marines, the warrant officers, the midshipmen's berth and the gunroom mess in order to keep the cabin well supplied.

For a moment, until his unaffected blaze of indignation galvanized them into activity, the Sophie's warrant officers gazed at him sadly.

Couriers were most often officers traveling to Europe for assignment, or sometimes warrant officers whose duty it was to travel around the world, providing armed, personal guard to documents that could not be trusted to the mail pouches.

In the normal military scheme of things, ma-jors give orders to captains who give them to warrant officers, not the other way around.

The new regulations covered only common spacers, not warrant officers, and those two were due a chance to spend their accumulated pay and prize money anywhere they pleased.

Although he had the least seniority among the warrant officers, his position as sailing master gave him traditional precedence among them.

During the weekend they had been heavily reinforced and all officers and senior warrant officers issue with sten guns.