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Use "noncoms" in a sentence
"Captains, lieutenants, and majors are commissioned; noncoms are mainly sergeants (and corporals, in the US Army and Marines)."
"Now he outlawed campfires, ordered muskets kept always loaded, noncoms to keep bayonets fixed, and forbade anyone from erecting “bowers” as shelter from the wretched weather."
"The men at Winchester in particular were out of hand, and on May 1 Washington issued a sweeping order covering negligence by noncoms, rioting, fighting, drunkenness, and theft."