N.C.O.
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Example Sentences
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The sergeant tucked the small pistol, a .22-caliber revolver, into the inside pocket of his sport coat and entered the base club for noncommissioned officers like himself — known as the N.C.O.
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2019
“That was all based off being an N.C.O., going to a meeting, conversing with people.”
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2015
Instead, they spent those years training soldiers, which, they assert, was perfect experience for running the N.C.O. academy and the drill sergeant school.
From New York Times • May 22, 2012
"If stones hit the window," says the tough-looking Soviet N.C.O. who escorts us, "duck your head down."
From Time Magazine Archive
And to have the work wasted by a bungling N.C.O., and his word doubted by a Philpott....
From The Secret Battle by Herbert, A. P.
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