Word: noncom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps a stupid noncom or officer had got John started on his military career on the wrong foot. At any rate, in the transition from civilian to military life, John had gone wrong, changed from a quiet, useful citizen to a maladjusted anti-social character...
...their instructors (five officers and eight noncoms to each company) they were addressed as "Gentlemen." They ate well-better than the average Marine. But they had also worked harder. And when they had muffed their jobs they had felt the sharp edge of a noncom's bladed tongue. (Good God, if you're officers I'm a Chinaman...