How to Use chief petty officer in a Sentence

chief petty officer

noun
  • Besides the prison time, his sentence strips him of his pay and his rank of chief petty officer.
    Ben Finley, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Gallagher, then a chief petty officer, was reduced in rank to E-6 and sentenced to four months time served.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The name of the sailor, a chief petty officer who was the first aboard the aircraft carrier to die from the virus, is being withheld until relatives are notified, the Navy said.
    Ben Kesling, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Kevin Graham was a chief petty officer, who served 22 years in active and reserve duty.
    Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The chief petty officer had himself received less than an hour of instruction.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • His father was a Navy chief petty officer, and he was raised primarily by an aunt and uncle in Harborcreek, Pa.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Gallagher was demoted from chief petty officer to petty officer first class and fined two months' wages.
    Alex Johnson, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Her mother was a seamstress, her father a Navy chief petty officer who became a fabric mill foreman after the family moved to Franklin, N.H.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The Navy revokes Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 24 June 2020
  • He was demoted from chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.
    Robert Burns, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
  • In addition, the Navy is examining one charge of dereliction of duty against a chief petty officer, a senior enlisted leader on the ship.
    Author: Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • President Donald Trump pardoned Gallagher in November, restoring him to his rank as chief petty officer.
    Linda Givetash, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The president stepped in after restoring Gallagher’s rank to chief petty officer and granting clemency to two other U.S. military officers.
    Fox News, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Gallagher was demoted from chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer after his conviction by a military jury.
    Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2019

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