platoon sergeant
Americannoun
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Francis J. Tucciarone, who served as Story’s platoon sergeant, said Story “realized that he was sacrificing his life.”
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023
The former Army platoon sergeant, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, died on 14 June, 2016, near his home in Maes y Bwlch, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2022
Cashe, 35, was a platoon sergeant on Oct.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021
Greg was a former US Army platoon sergeant who’d fought in the 1991 offensive against Iraq, Operation Desert Storm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
In the Army, there is an old expression that the officers make the orders and the sergeants do all the work; this year, as a cadet platoon sergeant, I was learning how true that was.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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