Private
Sergeant
Sergeant noun - Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal.
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The sergeant and a private rush in and see the major and another private covered head to toes in white goo and holding a Playboy issuenote porn was illegal in the USSR, but merely possessing it was usually punished with confiscation, especially by 1990, when the story is set.
Source: Less Disturbing in Context -
The movie Major Payne, with a kill-happy Special Forces Major playing drill sergeant to a bunch of private military school misfits.
Source: Drill Sergeant Nasty -
Kaufman, a private gets revenge on a Drill Sergeant Nasty by tying him up during a first-aid demonstration and then leaving him to drown on a beach.
Source: Drill Sergeant Nasty
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