Big name in sewing machines, 5 letters
Holy Roman Empire region, 5 letters
A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine, 5 letters
Army enlistee, briefly, 3 letters
Army one-striper: Abbr., 3 letters
Certain enlisted man's rank, briefly, 3 letters
Corp.'s subordinate, 3 letters
E-2 rank, in the Marines, 3 letters
Enlisted man's rank, 3 letters
Enlisted soldier's rank, maybe: Abbr., 3 letters
Forrest Gump's rank: Abbr., 3 letters
Future specialist, perhaps: Abbr., 3 letters
GI's rank after one year, maybe, 3 letters
Gomer Pyle, for one, 3 letters
Gomer Pyle's rank, briefly, 3 letters
Gomer Pyle's rank: abbr., 3 letters
Gomer Pyle's USMC rank, 3 letters
Jarhead's rank: Abbr., 3 letters
Jessica Lynch's mil. rank, 3 letters
Jessica Lynch's rank: Abbr., 3 letters
Lance cpl. underling, 3 letters
Low army rank: Abbr., 3 letters
Mil. classification, 3 letters
One might be promoted to cpl., 3 letters
One overseen by a sgt., 3 letters
One-striper, briefly, 3 letters
One-striper, for short, 3 letters
Rank just below cpl., 3 letters
Rank on an APO letter, perhaps, 3 letters
Rank way below captain, 3 letters
Rating at Ft. Bragg, 3 letters
Sarge charge (abbr.), 3 letters
U.S.M.C. one-striper, 3 letters
Wintergreen's former rank in Catch-22, 3 letters
China Bistro restaurant, 8 letters
China Bistro corporation name, 8 letters
Chinese restaurant chain, 8 letters
2,641 specific G.I.'s, 4 letters
Airmen's USMC equivalents, 4 letters
Army grunts (abbr.), 4 letters
Certain soldiers briefly, 4 letters
Corporals outrank 'em, 4 letters
Cpl.'s subordinates, 4 letters
Cpls. demoted one grade, 4 letters
Enlisted men: Abbr., 4 letters
Future specialists, perhaps: Abbr., 4 letters
Gases implicated in climate change, 4 letters
GIs who rank just below cpls., 4 letters
Gomer Pyle and platoonmates, by rank: Abbr., 4 letters
Gomer Pyle et al.: Abbr., 4 letters
Lance cpl.'s inferiors, in the Marines, 4 letters
Lance cpls.' subordinates, 4 letters
One-stripe soldiers: Abbr., 4 letters
One-stripers, for short, 4 letters
Ones ranking below cpls., 4 letters
POW Jessica Lynch and others, 4 letters
Ranks for jarheads: Abbr., 4 letters
Sarge's charges (abbr.), 4 letters
Seaman apprentices' USMC equivalents, 4 letters
Sgts. are their bosses, 4 letters
Single chevron sporters: Abbr., 4 letters
Some basic training grads, 4 letters
Some boot camp graduates: Abbr., 4 letters
Some enlistees, briefly, 4 letters
Some JROTC-trained enlistees, 4 letters
Some USMC enlistees, 4 letters
Specialists outrank them: Abbr., 4 letters
Specialists' underlings: Abbr., 4 letters
Subordinates to cpls., 4 letters
They rank just below lance corporals in the Marines: abbr., 4 letters
Underlings of sgts., 4 letters
Adj. for some stock, 3 letters
Michelle of I Am Sam, 8 letters
Pacino's Frankie and Johnny co-star, 8 letters
German coin, before adopting the euro, 7 letters
German penny replaced by the euro cent, 7 letters
Divisions of a mark, 8 letters
American capital named for German capital?, 15 letters
Just like that noise, 4 letters
Oh, right, sure, yeah!, 4 letters
Disappearing sound, and a hint to this puzzle's theme, 4 letters
Fizzled-out firecracker sound, 4 letters
Fizzling-out sound effect, 4 letters
Indication of a dud, 4 letters
Sound of a fizzling firecracker, 4 letters
Sound of disappearance, 4 letters
Sound of something fizzling out, 4 letters
Sound of something going kaput, 4 letters
Maker of Celebrex and Viagra, 6 letters
Maker of Lipitor and Celebrex, 6 letters
Pharmaceutical giant, 6 letters
Warner-Lambert competitor, 6 letters
Band known for performing with an inflated pig, 6 letters
'MASH' actress Jo Ann, 5 letters
Candid Camera co-host Jo Ann, 5 letters
M*A*S*H actress Jo Ann, 5 letters
Jo Ann who played Lt. Dish in 1970's MASH, 5 letters
Handling large sums of money unwisely, 8 letters
How boxers are compared, 5 letters
Rats!, as some write it, 4 letters
Dismissive exclamation, 4 letters
Nero Wolfe exclamation, 4 letters