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(of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnelOpposite:
Definition that contains noncommissioned
- sergeant any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal
- po a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
- corporal a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines
- bombardier a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
- aircraftsman a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force
- aircraftman a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force
- senior chief petty officer a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army
- petty officer a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
- staff sergeant a noncommissioned officer ranking above corporal and below sergeant first class in the Army or Marines or above airman 1st class in the Air Force
- gunnery sergeant a noncommissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant in the marines