chief petty officer
noun
: an enlisted man in the navy or coast guard ranking above a petty officer first class and below a senior chief petty officer
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Dixie’s mother, Sherry, a chief petty officer in the Navy, left for an 18-month deployment in Bahrain over the summer and wasn’t home to see her daughter qualify for the event at Champions Golf Club in Houston in September.
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2024
Christopher Toups, 46, a former chief petty officer, pleaded guilty to conspiring with several others to bilk the Traumatic Servicemembers Groups Life Insurance Program out of around $2 million.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
The former Navy chief petty officer, who had been stationed in Jacksonville, was accused of neglecting the girl to the point of starvation.
—Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
Brianna Shontae Williams, the ex-Navy chief petty officer based in Jacksonville, neglected Taylor Rose Williams to the point where the girl starved to death.
—Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 20 Sep. 2022
Police arrested Herman Williams, a Navy chief petty officer, four days the discovery of the body and charged him with murder.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
Bell, a former chief petty officer in the Navy, has been known for making inflammatory statements.
—Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
This year, Erin Picou and her husband, a chief petty officer in the Coast Guard, have managed to save enough money to pay their mortgage on their home in Texas City.
—Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2021
The Navy revokes Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 24 June 2020
Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2024
Christopher Toups, 46, a former chief petty officer, pleaded guilty to conspiring with several others to bilk the Traumatic Servicemembers Groups Life Insurance Program out of around $2 million.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
The former Navy chief petty officer, who had been stationed in Jacksonville, was accused of neglecting the girl to the point of starvation.
—Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
Brianna Shontae Williams, the ex-Navy chief petty officer based in Jacksonville, neglected Taylor Rose Williams to the point where the girl starved to death.
—Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 20 Sep. 2022
Police arrested Herman Williams, a Navy chief petty officer, four days the discovery of the body and charged him with murder.
—Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
Bell, a former chief petty officer in the Navy, has been known for making inflammatory statements.
—Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
This year, Erin Picou and her husband, a chief petty officer in the Coast Guard, have managed to save enough money to pay their mortgage on their home in Texas City.
—Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2021
The Navy revokes Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 24 June 2020
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