How to Use first sergeant in a Sentence
first sergeant
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The award citation for Arnold, one of several read aloud at the ceremony, revealed that a fellow first sergeant was one of the victims.
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Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
7 Aug. 2025
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He was posthumously promoted to the rank of first sergeant, according to the Israeli government.
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Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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Stan Karboski, first sergeant of a Ranger Battalion in World War II and now in the farm supply business in nearby Parish, could pick up a canoe like a veteran voyageur.
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Marc Terziev,
Outdoor Life,
25 June 2026
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A day later, Vitalii Piasetskyi, a first sergeant in Ukraine’s 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, described similar activity in Donetsk Oblast.
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Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2026
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Mara Virginia Schmid and Franco Paolo Ormaechea — a scientist and first sergeant from Argentina, respectively — were stationed at the Esperanza Base in Antarctica in 2014.
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Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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