How to Use noncommissioned officer in a Sentence

noncommissioned officer

noun
  • Airmen lured cubs into the noncommissioned officers club and served them beer from a canteen cup, Sgt.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • The senior noncommissioned officer who videotaped the oath recital has been removed from his job as unit first agent but will remain in the Guard, Haston said in a statement Wednesday on Facebook.
    The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The colonel, who administered the ceremony in which the senior noncommissioned officer wears the puppet on her right hand while taking an oath, was demoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and retired.
    CBS News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Haston also said a senior noncommissioned officer who recorded the event was reprimanded and removed from his position as a unit First Sergeant.
    CBS News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The soldier facing a discharge for her gender-reassignment surgery had initially joined the military as a noncommissioned officer and served as a tank driver.
    Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The agency is staffed by Army noncommissioned officers and provides around-the-clock transportation for the chief executive, not his personal liaison for Diet Cokes.
    Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Airmen have often complained on social media of mistreatment and threats by noncommissioned officers against those posting comments on the Facebook site.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The troops, all enlisted, noncommissioned officers, were sent home before Pence arrived in Panama and stripped of their White House assignments pending the results of an investigation.
    Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Another senior noncommissioned officer, responsible for filming the video that sparked the uproar, received an official reprimand and was removed from his job as unit first sergeant, but will remain in the Guard.
    Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The city of Seattle is supplementing the ranks of police by hiring 12 unarmed, noncommissioned officers to respond to noncriminal calls and help connect people with social services.
    Brian Contreras, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2019
  • The native of Owasso, Oklahoma, served as the squadron’s senior noncommissioned officer as his group worked to establish communications systems.
    Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2020
  • In that case, three noncommissioned officers in the Army broke curfew in an incident involving foreign women, officials familiar with the situation said.
    Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • To adjust to that demographic shift, the military has encouraged young personnel to become noncommissioned officers.
    Chieko Tsuneoka and Alastair Gale, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Washington Seattle: The city is supplementing its police ranks by hiring unarmed, noncommissioned officers.
    USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
  • Prosecutors had alleged that Ortiz conspired with fellow noncommissioned officers to haze five junior Marines by forcing them to get special haircuts and ordering them to perform excessive physical exercises.
    Carl Prine, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Her day had started well before the first phone conference call with noncommissioned officers across the installations and required policy decisions that impacted individual enlisted airmen and their families.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 26 Mar. 2020

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