noncommissioned officer

See also: non-commissioned officer

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noncommissioned officer (plural noncommissioned officers)

  1. A person of authority in the military who has not received a commission (a direct conveyance of authority from the sovereign government); as such they can have charge or control but not command in the most technical use of the word.
    A platoon sergeant may only be a noncommissioned officer but he's the one his men look to when the bullets start flying.
    • 2025 February 23, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, “How retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine became Trump’s pick for Joint Chiefs chairman”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “Our ability as a warfighting nation to pivot at speed, to stay ahead of these emerging technologies, is going to be really important in the future,” Caine said. “There’s a whole bunch of things that we need to do better as a joint force and as a Department of Defense along the lines of acquisition reform so that we can make sure that those young (privates first class) and E-1s and E-2s and (noncommissioned officers) have the kit and capability that they need.”

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