staff sergeant
14
3.5
- noun
- /stæf ˈsɜrdʒənt/
- Specialized
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- In addition, Young was a charter member of the United States Holocaust Museum; a picture Young took as a staff sergeant liberating the first Nazi death camp discovered by the advancing western Allies is displayed as a poster at the museum.
- staff sergeant in the Army
- staff sergeant in the Air Force
- former staff sergeant
And we sent them a captain, a staff Sergeant and a senior airman.
- And we sent them a captain, a staff Sergeant and a senior airman.
- After you tell him that, I said, well, I don't think he's there to converse with a staff Sergeant.
- And he tells me the story about how he was like, I believe a staff Sergeant and he had a crew.
- And that is exactly how this the staff Sergeant took me in.
- And he's like, you know, Captain Smith, congratulations, Staff Sergeant, whatever.
- We'll call him Staff Sergeant Smith for the sake of was your science teacher.
- And I got an e-mail from a young Sergeant, a Sergeant, a staff Sergeant, a squad leader.
Examples
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A passage from his book details his experience with quality leadership: "The stocky little staff sergeant knew how to handle men, a fact that showed clearly over the next few days of hard work."
Academic text (2001) -
Lowry was shipped back to Fort Bragg and honorably discharged as a staff sergeant.
Blog text (25) -
And the staff Sergeant that was right next to me said Sir, please sit down.
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I need a staff sergeant up top.
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In the Army, I never made more than staff sergeant.
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Matt is a staff sergeant in the Air Commandos.
Fiction book (2002) -
A staff sergeant concurred when he wrote, "I have been in the Army 15 years and I strongly believe in the military."
Academic text (1996) -
So my squad leader, Staff Sergeant Casey Grukoviak, he passed away in Afghanistan.
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The day my staff sergeant and I arrived at COP Rawah was also the day we got our first taste of "action" in theater when, on the convoy from Mosul, one of the five-ton vehicles hit a landmine that had probably been left over from one of Iraq's previous conflicts.
Academic text (2009) -
My name is Dan Nevins, and I'm a retired staff sergeant in the United States Army.
How Senior
- Specialized
7
6.0
- Specialized
4
5.5
- Specialized
14
3.5
422
3.9
- Specialized
450
4.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
staff + sergeant
The noun 'sergeant' provides the core meaning (a military NCO) and 'staff' signals a subtype, so a learner who knows both words can infer this is a particular kind of sergeant. However, the exact rank position and specific duties are convention-dependent and not fully predictable from the constituents alone, making the relation only partially transparent.
Etymology
Staff sergeant comes from staff, the team of officers who 'help' a commander, and sergeant, a soldier who leads others; a staff sergeant was a sergeant who worked with that staff team. So today a staff sergeant is a mid-level sergeant with extra duties who often leads other soldiers.