professional soldiers

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French military chiefs are broadly in favour of the new measure, which they hope will create a reservoir of trained personnel able to back up professional soldiers and replace them in non-frontline tasks.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

These were professional soldiers who were paid by a company called the Wagner Group.

From NewsForKids.net • Jun. 27, 2023

But Captain Fritz said that so many of their professional soldiers had been injured or killed by this point that the 79th had turned to recruits with little prior military experience to fill the holes.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

On March 30, British Defence Intelligence said that Russia planned to recruit an additional 400,000 professional soldiers, echoing Russian media reports.

From Reuters • Apr. 12, 2023

The army did not have enough professional soldiers to carry out Knox’s orders.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz