1.   Coombes was unsettled by his brief look at the tiger on the night it walked off with the mess sergeant clutched in its jaws.

2.   He was a mess sergeant in the Rebel Army.

3.   Just remember what the mess sergeant said.

4.   My husband was a mess sergeant in the Army, and he taught me a lot.

5.   Surprisingly, our own stolid mess sergeant, a sullen jerk, informed us that it was against military regulations to give army rations to civilians.