professional soldier
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As a professional soldier based in Lviv in western Ukraine, Maksym had not told his mother that his air assault force had been sent south to stop the Russian offensive.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023
Oleh is a professional soldier - noted by the tattoo across his left arm reading "pugnare cum gladio," Latin for "fight with a sword."
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2022
Byun voluntarily joined as a non-commissioned officer to become a professional soldier.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
HAL 9000 had way more human inflection than this grim professional soldier.
From Time ● May 30, 2013
Yet his opponent, a stouter and darker man, with a sword-cut across his left temple, and that swaggering air which has at all times marked the professional soldier, showed no signs of triumph or elation.
From The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman
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