How To Use Petty officer In A Sentence
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His maintenance person, an active-duty Navy petty officer, was to be the noncom in charge of keeping the aircraft airworthy until more parts and personnel could be flown in.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
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Blatheration!" exclaimed my chum, smacking the butt of his rifle on the deck and making the petty officer who was on the other side of the hatchway jump round in a jiffy, looking marline-spikes in our direction.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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On his sleeve was the chevron of a petty officer.
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Chief Petty Officer John Strange was badly injured during a missile attack.
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Though their eyes flashed their rage, the German officers raised their hands while a petty officer "frisked" them one after the other.
Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers
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Think about a fairly new petty officer or ensign dealing with a new system.
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His launch bar dropped across the shuttle, and a petty officer scurried under the nose of the Hornet to attach the holdback bar.
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Razzies 'laud' 'Transformers' and Bullock photo: Public Domain/Petty Officer 1st Class Mark O'Donald
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It had become a bit of a joke for any ensign or petty officer new to rank and ship with him.
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A Petty Officer, with an expression emotionless as that of a traveller in a railway tunnel, sat by the dial manipulating a brass wheel; a few feet away sat a Leading Seaman similarly employed.
The Long Trick
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My teacher was a male chief petty officer who clearly hadn't come across anyone with my sensibilities.
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Petty Officer, U.S. Navy enlisted rate insignia; comparative military ranks ... such as MM for Machinist's Mate, QM for Quartermaster, or YN for Yeoman.
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Petty Officer Third Class Jack A. Bacon of Reno was aboard the USS George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier anchored at the naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, near Tokyo when the earthquake hit.
U.S. sends aid to Japan, reacts to deadly quake, tsunami
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My teacher was a male chief petty officer who clearly hadn't come across anyone with my sensibilities.
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Because of the increased number of volunteer soldiers, the ministry will phase out recruitment of non-commissioned officers, including air force and army sergeants and naval petty officers.
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Sleeping-place; (to clean the cabins of the petty officers in the nether orlop), and to admonish them all in general [it being dangerous perhaps, in a poor swabber, to admonish in particular] to be cleanly and handsom, and to complain to the Captain, of all such as will be any way nastie and offensive that way.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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By grabbing additional officers and petty officers to act as runners, phone talkers, and recorders, the load further was reduced and information flow to the skipper improved.
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At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
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Greenland patrol, and other black petty officers were assigned to recruiting stations, to the loran program, and as instructors at the
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
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Since he had just been meritoriously advanced to petty officer 3rd class, and had a great service record, Saez found he was eligible for the opportunity of a lifetime.
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He knew nothing about drill, but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer.
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The hardest workers among you may become chief petty officers, warrant officers and commissioned officers.
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We cross-check records with Ty and his people all the time," said Chief Petty Officer Todd Willebrand, a spokesman for the Naval Special
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Chief Petty Officer Robert Lanier of the U.S. Coast Guard said workers began dumping a fish toxin called rotenone into the canal about 8 p.m. and would continue the poisoning until some time Thursday morning.
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Because of the increased number of volunteer soldiers, the ministry will phase out recruitment of non-commissioned officers, including air force and army sergeants and naval petty officers.
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When it is your shop's day, a petty officer is selected to watch selected maintenance evolutions (basically the same duties as the safety petty officer in the squadron).
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A petty officer released the airlock door's locking mechanism and pulled it open.
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Petty Officer Waddell, without hesitation, leaped from the aircraft and, with intense enemy fire hitting all around him, raced back and forth carrying the wounded and dead to the aircraft.
Heroes or Villains?
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It had been confirmed at an earlier court hearing that'the defendant is a serving naval petty officer on board a nuclear submarine.
The Sun
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Minutes after the sonobuoy was in the water, the faint sound of a submarine screw entered the headphones of a young petty officer aboard the helicopter.
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As the Alabama sortied across the Pacific, it dawned on Chief Petty Officer Feller that one way to recoup some of the money he and other servicemen-ballplayers had sacrificed during the war was to orchestrate a series of interracial barnstorming games.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert
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The former Leading Seaman Signalman and the Petty Officer Quartermaster proudly broke the pennant which for the life of the ship will fly at her masthead.
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His maintenance person, an active-duty Navy petty officer, was to be the noncom in charge of keeping the aircraft airworthy until more parts and personnel could be flown in.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
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At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
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A petty officer, his wife and three incredibly well-behaved children were first.
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“Oh,” the petty officer said as he jumped down onto a thick slab of duracrete, and felt it start to move.
The Flood
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The Admiral wants to see a greater involvement of Leading Hands and Petty Officers in the daily management of junior ratings.
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Gary was assigned basic training in Orlando ... serving as Operations Yeoman and Squadron Admin Awards Petty Officer.
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• Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Theophilus K. Ansong, 34, Bristow, Va.; lost at sea; assigned to USS San Antonio (LPD 17) as it conducted operations in the Gulf of Aden.
February 2009
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Next came the petty officers 'berthage, of which the same may be said, although, as was to be expected, the space here was rather more restricted, and the fittings somewhat plainer than in those of the other officers.
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He was meritoriously advanced to Petty Officer 1st Class by the Chief of Navy Operations in a recent Pentagon ceremony.
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Because of the increased number of volunteer soldiers, the ministry will phase out recruitment of non-commissioned officers, including air force and army sergeants and naval petty officers.
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These super Sailors were chosen from the ‘best of the best,’ and as such, were meritoriously promoted to the rank of chief petty officer.
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As a young Yeoman Petty Officer, Hal was assigned to the U.S.S. COLORADO.
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It had been confirmed at an earlier court hearing that'the defendant is a serving naval petty officer on board a nuclear submarine.
The Sun
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The master-at-arms or chief petty officer in charge would ceremonially tip this residue into the scuppers at the edge of the deck, from where, to the daily perplexity and annoyance of thirsty seamen, it would drain into the sea.
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His launch bar dropped across the shuttle, and a petty officer scurried under the nose of the Hornet to attach the holdback bar.
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