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  • Many American officers and non-coms had served in the Indian Wars, and thus applied the old belief that “the only good Indian was a dead Indian” to their relations with the Filipinos.

    Memorial Day: Burning Pols in Effigy « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • Also then, as it seems now, the police seem incapable of distinguishing “combatants” and “non-coms”.

    London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Dashing officers and cheerful non-coms facing down hordes of Martian aboriginals, flying around in liftships and blasting away with quick firing cannon.

    Up, AetherShips! Space 1889 at Cold Wars 2010 « Third Point of Singularity 2010

  • The non-coms continued to direct and sort them as best they could, being as gentle as they were.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • At the concrete base, a number of non-coms, none of them with a kindly face, slapped and pushed and prodded the women into a single block.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • At the concrete base, a number of non-coms, none of them with a kindly face, slapped and pushed and prodded the women into a single block.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • The non-coms continued to direct and sort them as best they could, being as gentle as they were.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • "More meat on the 'orse than there is on the pandy, eh, Jasper?" says the sergeant, winking, and the private said it was just as well, since some non-coms of his acquaintance, namin 'no names, would as soon be cannibals as not.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Lydia saw a few kindly faced, older non-coms trying to sort the mob into some semblance of order.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Lydia saw a few kindly faced, older non-coms trying to sort the mob into some semblance of order.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

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