During the day, both the company commander and the company sergeant major went into the hut.
The troops were paraded, and the sergeant major, perhaps rather naïvely, said he would not let them go off parade until the guilty man confessed.
The friend asked my commanding officer whether he could have a good non-commissioned officer to be his regimental sergeant major.
A company sergeant major is a senior warrant officer with experience.
We do not want to ask for volunteers in the manner of some army sergeant major.
I was merely a company sergeant major, with all the shyness and modesty which afflicts the holders of that particular rank.
We must encourage the fleet chief petty officers—a new designation, the equivalent of the regimental sergeant major—to prolong their service after nine years.
He happened to be a regimental sergeant major.
