A master sergeant with 18 years' service makes about $3,000 a month.

He stopped before the master sergeant in the outer office.

The master sergeant and his lady stared at each other.

"Why do I feel you are more than a master sergeant of cadets?"

He was a master sergeant, but I don't know his first name.

The master sergeant's head and shoulders were just above the muddy water.

Later he gave up his bars for the stripes of a master sergeant.

Master Sergeant, how many would you want to send at a time?

Even now, thinking back on it, the master sergeant found himself shaking his head with disbelief.

In 1969 he became the chief master sergeant of the Air Force.

The man had been a senior sergeant, with fifteen years.

The senior sergeants I'm not sure how it broke out.

He was well educated and became the senior sergeant of the expedition.

He then joined the police force, soon reaching the rank of senior sergeant but resigned after a few years, perhaps in 1842.

"In Vietnam, you never saw the senior sergeants," he said.

The senior sergeant waved his eating hands in a sneer.

But his father sold sausages for a living, so he was unlikely ever to rise above senior sergeant.

On 22 March, she was due to give testimony against a senior sergeant accused of perjury.

The officers looking over his shoulder would never appreciate how much finesse that had taken, but the senior sergeant did.

A simple contract was drawn up and signed, witnessed by senior sergeants on both sides.