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A non-com in any branch of the Department of Defense is short for non-commissioned officer, aka NCO. The NCOs are pay grades E4-E9 (ie, Corporal to Command Sergeant Major), and they are trusted with more responsibility than newer members of the military, but are not given command billets - they serve under commissioned officers (ie, Lieutenants through Generals), although much more respect is usually tendered to a Senior NCO than to a newly commissioned officer.

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