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Recent Examples of infantry
But he will be met by the more than 10,000 women who currently fill combat roles, from artillery and infantry positions to combat engineers and even a few Green Berets and Army Rangers.
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Helene Cooper, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
But two of its brigades are unavailable due to overseas deployments: an infantry brigade is in Europe, and its aviation brigade is in the process of returning from the Middle East.
—Davis Winkie, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Who: Pete Hegseth Hegseth, 44, served in the infantry and was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
—Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
There are now some 3,800 women serving in Army infantry, armor, artillery.
—Tom Bowman, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
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Helene Cooper, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
But two of its brigades are unavailable due to overseas deployments: an infantry brigade is in Europe, and its aviation brigade is in the process of returning from the Middle East.
—Davis Winkie, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Who: Pete Hegseth Hegseth, 44, served in the infantry and was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
—Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
There are now some 3,800 women serving in Army infantry, armor, artillery.
—Tom Bowman, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantry
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Although your empire will keep all of its settlements and Commanders – a new unit type that can be level up and used to move an entire stack of units easily – during an Age Transition, a part of your army gets deleted.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
3 Feb. 2025
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Flanked by an army of rodeo clowns and seated on a massive pink horse, Roan (in custom Steve Madden cowboy boots and plenty of fringe) belted out her first single as the crowd (led by Janelle Monáe) sang along.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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On May 22, three soldiers who witnessed the Mount Suribachi flag-raising on the island of Iwo Jima were greeted by 1,000 schoolchildren.—
Patrick Sauer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Dec. 2024
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The goal is to slow Russia's advance and weaken their fighting power while sacrificing as few Ukrainian soldiers as possible.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
24 Dec. 2024
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Prior to his civil service career, from 1966 to 1969, Dr. Arendt was a soldier in the U.S. Army and served as a battalion mail clerk, a 4.2mm mortarman in Alaska and a military policeman in Colorado at Fort Carson's maximum-security stockade.—
Ethan Stone,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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Another battalion serviceman told CNN the North Koreans had shown good marksmanship when shooting down drones from about a 100-meter distance, suggesting a high level of training in North Korea.—
Victoria Butenko,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Infantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantry. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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