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
• Privates and noncommissioned officers were culled from stateside divisions, trained as riflemen, and sent overseas.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Quornelius Radford, 28, a noncommissioned officer, turned on his fellow soldiers and shot them using his personal handgun, according to Army Brig.
  — Michael Loria, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
• Jung also highlighted the South Korean military’s personnel shortage, especially among noncommissioned officers and officers expected to help train new conscripts to use drones.
  — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
• 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
• John Kaelin, 332nd ELRS fuels distribution noncommissioned officer in charge.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026