Noun
drill sergeant (plural drill sergeants)
(military) drill instructor
As an old drill sergeant had told her, pain is the warrior's friend. Pain reminds you that you aren't dead yet. Daniel Abraham
And then there's my other godmother, Olivia (she prefers Liv.) If I were to cast her in a movie, I'd get someone like Dame Judith Dench to play her, or that drill sergeant I had in the military. Source: Internet
He was the neat freak who sat with his back to the press at a locker that would make a drill sergeant swoon. Source: Internet
He married Mary Elaine Hickerson on Sept. 17, 1976, in Clovis, N. M. He was a retired Master sergeant in the US Air Force with 22 and one half years of service as a hydraulic mechanic, drill sergeant, hydraulics instructor, and a first sergeant. Source: Internet
Fortunately, his strength, tenacity and quiet confidence impressed a drill sergeant, a tough-as-nails relic of the Spanish-American War, who took Vernon under his wing. Source: Internet
It was in Woody Allen's where the drill sergeant scolds Boris and asks if he wants a dishonorable discharge, to which Boris replies: "Yes sir, either that or a furlough." Source: Internet