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

The neatly dressed soldier shrugged and asked the noncom who worked with him.

From Literature

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

A colonel came down the beach with his entourage, exhorting the noncoms and junior officers to re-form and improvise squads.

From Literature

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

From Project Gutenberg