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The word "sergeant" is correct and usable in written English
It is an official military rank and is also used in police forces. For example, "Sergeant John Smith was awarded a medal for bravery following his service in the war."
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sergeant
noun
UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
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A sergeant, he took temporary command of his platoon after the senior NCO was killed before his eyes.
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Peter Reedy, an FBI-trained hostage negotiator and former sergeant, argues officers were wrong to rush into a tense stand-off with their guns drawn and ended up aggravating a situation they should have diffused.
Another PC, Fiona Nicol, on the other side of the fence, managed to haul Adam out with the help of a sergeant, Michael Roddis, and tried to revive Adam on the pitch at that end.
By the time the sergeant had rushed out to help, the gunman had escaped in a getaway car.
Detective Sergeant Drake (Flynn) is rising up the ranks in Manchester, and Captain Jackson is pretty much where we left him, lolling in a bed sheet, searching the night stand for a cigarette.
In a police recording of the incident leaked to TMZ, LAPD sergeant Jim Parker can be heard telling Watts: "Somebody's made a call, which means it gives me the right to be here.
The reason my cops are engaging with your kids is because in some respects you've let your kids get out of control William Bratton "We will continue our focus on crime and disorder," Bratton tells the Guardian as we moved through thick Manhattan traffic the other week en route to the funeral of Gertrude Schimmel, the first female police sergeant of the NYPD.
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One gunman fatally shot a soldier at the war memorial in Ottawa, the capital, before entering the nearby Parliament, where he was killed in an exchange of fire with the sergeant-at-arms.
On February 4th the court martial began of Sergeant-Major Gene McKinney, once the army's highest-ranking enlisted soldier.
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