infantryman

An infantryman with the call-sign Dealer tells me he feels strong, but it is good to be finally heading home: "It's an impressive operation. Over three months, we moved positions four times."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

For many at the front, the main fear is not an infantryman storming over the top, but an unseen enemy operating a drone from far away with a joystick.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

When I was an infantryman in the U.S.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2025

Valery Shyrokov, 47, an infantryman and mortar gunner who volunteered in 2022 and served, among other places, in the bloody battle for Bakhmut, uses the word “disappointed,” but his manner suggests something far stronger.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2024

De la O and another infantryman ended up next to each other.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

His two main characters, infantrymen named Willie and Joe, were bedraggled, unshaven, dirty, tired to the bone, contemptuous of authority—in other words, mirror images of many of the real soldiers fighting that war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Nothing the American infantrymen encountered battling across Europe and into the German heartland steeled them for what they found at Dachau.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

It's rare for journalists these days to speak to infantrymen, as it's become too risky to go to these trenches.

From BBC ● May 28, 2025

But that advantage flips in the afternoon, when Ukrainian drone pilots can sometimes spot the moving shadows of Russian infantrymen.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

Mankind, by its nature, produced infantrymen and Bull approved that the grunts of the world could not enter into the language of aviators.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy