noncom

Example Sentences

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Instead, he played piano at enlisted men’s clubs in Japan and Hawaii, composing ditties deriding officers and senior noncoms in his unit.

From Washington Post

While relatively secure from civilian harassment in their barracks, mess halls and training exercises, the Tuskegee Airmen were still subjected to discrimination by white officers and noncoms on and off the base.

From New York Times

A year later, as American troops clung to the Italian beachhead at Anzio in some of the war’s bloodiest fighting, the sergeant and two other noncoms in his unit won battlefield commissions as second lieutenants.

From New York Times

I was introduced to the noncoms with whom Fred seems to have been a favorite.

From Project Gutenberg

The French noncoms. came over also and dined with our men, and one day all of us went over to the French village and saw their sports, mule races, pole vaulting, etc.

From Project Gutenberg