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Recent Examples of infantry
Mahoney completed basic training and the infantry officer’s course at Quantico, Virginia, in 1988, according to the DOD biography.
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Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
Commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army on May 10, 2008, Corcoran has served two tours in Afghanistan, attended Ranger and Airborne schools and earned two master’s degrees, receiving the most recent one at Fort Leavenworth in May.
—Kansas City Star, 8 July 2025
Jones said her own husband, an active-duty Marine, deployed to Iraq in 2004 with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment based at Twentynine Palms — the same infantry unit now mustered in Los Angeles.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Butts said drones give U.S. troops a major advantage as infantry units can use them to look over obstacles.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
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Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
Commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army on May 10, 2008, Corcoran has served two tours in Afghanistan, attended Ranger and Airborne schools and earned two master’s degrees, receiving the most recent one at Fort Leavenworth in May.
—Kansas City Star, 8 July 2025
Jones said her own husband, an active-duty Marine, deployed to Iraq in 2004 with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment based at Twentynine Palms — the same infantry unit now mustered in Los Angeles.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Butts said drones give U.S. troops a major advantage as infantry units can use them to look over obstacles.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantry
Noun
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In the book, the CSS Birmingham is an old battleship manned by dead Confederate soldiers, but the show updates that problematic depiction by expanding the crew to all armies that have been defeated in battle and owe a debt of service to Ares.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
22 July 2025
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An army of social followers seems like a valuable asset in either scenario.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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The Skokie Fire Department said the department sent a fire crew and battalion chief to the scene.—
Pam DeFiglio,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
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Staley described it as a two-alarm fire that drew three city fire battalions.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
21 July 2025
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“Infantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantry. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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