petty officer

• “LEADING PETTY OFFICER: the senior petty officer in a work center, division, or department, responsible to the leading chief petty officer for the performance of the rest of the group.”

  Terror At Dawn

• “Then Derfflinger was hit, the shell piercing a door with a glass window behind which a petty officer was standing and watching the battle.”

  Castles of Steel

• “Except for the two already out on the floor — John McNaughton in the Vermont house, and George Wing, a Crow Indian and former chief petty officer who was living in the tepee I'd seen — I also met my fellow candidates.”

  Time and Again

• “The transition from petty officer ranks to the chiefs’ mess is a major event in a sailor’s career.”

  Terror At Dawn

• “Henry Kepler was a petty officer in the service of the reigning Duke, and in 1576 joined the army serving in the Netherlands.”

  Kepler

• “It was the first-class petty officer seated next to the TACCO, the one with the finely trained eyes and ears who could sniff out the sound patterns made by machinery from among noise, signals from noise, submarines from surface ships, and friend from enemy.”

  Terror At Dawn

• “The Navy Intelligence petty officer conducting the third briefing of the staff sergeant was clearly at the end of a long day.”

  Terror At Dawn

• “As it happened, the line chief petty officer had had a hole in his night watchbill to fill.”

  Terror At Dawn

• “Lazenby and the tech petty officer had caught on now.”

  Behold the Stars

• “With him was Commander Bird Dog Robinson and a chief petty officer that Coyote recognized as chief of the avionics division.”

  Terror At Dawn

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