senior chief petty officer

noun

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Definition of senior chief petty officer

: an enlisted man in the navy or coast guard ranking above a chief petty officer and below a master chief petty officer

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Friday’s incident marked the first time a U.S. service member has died in action in Somalia since Navy SEAL Kyle Milliken, a senior chief petty officer, was killed in May of last year in a firefight with al-Shabab militants.

— paul sonne, Washington Post, "U.S. special operations soldier killed, four service members wounded in Somalia attack," 8 June 2018
Friday's incident marked the first time a U.S. service member has died in action in Somalia since Navy SEAL Kyle Milliken, a senior chief petty officer, was killed in May of last year in a firefight with al-Shabab militants.

— paul sonne, chicagotribune.com, "U.S. special operations soldier killed, four service members wounded in Somalia attack," 8 June 2018
O’Neill left the Navy in 2012 as a senior chief petty officer and has since taken up a career in public speaking.

— marwa eltagouri, Washington Post, "Even the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden thinks Trump’s military parade is a bad idea," 9 Feb. 2018

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