professional soldier

General Raheel Sharif, we are told, is a professional soldier with little interest in politics.

For these plays were not the work of a professional writer, but the recreation of a (temporary) professional soldier.

The proceedings—amazing enough to the professional soldier—put into camp life three days of excitement and salt.

The English professional soldier of our youth had been conspicuous not only by his red coat but by his rarity.

A similar ambition, of course, comes into the mind of every professional soldier of the continent who rises to eminence.

General Bourbaki, as a professional soldier, took a most gloomy view of the military situation.