infantryman
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When I was an infantryman in the U.S.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2025
The 53-year-old is a former infantryman with King's Own Scottish Borderers who is blind in one eye and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
He served two tours in Iraq between 2003 and 2006, as an enlisted Marine infantryman and scout sniper, and then left the service to become a lawyer.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
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
When he was separated from his unit and, what was worse for an infantryman, from his rifle.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
On Nov. 9, 1921, the anonymous “doughboy” — the nickname given to the infantrymen — was carried down the wet gangway.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Not only did Inka infantrymen have to overcome their initial stupefaction, their leaders had to reinvent their military tactics while in the midst of an invasion.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
