noncom
- n a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel
- Every enlisted man was a noncom except for a few private ratings, kept handy for "busting" unruly members.
- The girl who invades their paradise played by Connie Stevens, an actress with the vocal cords of a Southern noncom is a superpatriot who treats the American flag like a .
- As a noncom in the Marine Corps, Beckwith was a machine gunner in the invasions of Guadalcanal and Tarawa.