The phrase "aging soldiers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to soldiers who are growing older, often in discussions about military service, veteran affairs, or the effects of aging on military personnel.
Example: "The report highlighted the challenges faced by aging soldiers as they transition to civilian life."
Alternatives: "elderly soldiers" or "mature soldiers".
With United States soldiers dodging bullets in Falluja, it might seem odd to reach back six decades to tell the story of one aging soldier.
Tony's close circle within the DiMeo crime family includes: Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt), who runs the family's strip club headquarters, and other businesses; Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri (Tony Sirico), a tough, short-tempered, aging soldier who is fiercely loyal to Tony; and, Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero (Vincent Pastore), a veteran gangster who runs an automotive body shop.
Ageing soldiers and bureaucrats in charge of an interim government have bumbled their way through a series of embarrassing reversals, goaded by the press and other lobbies.The generals trapped themselves with their early declarations that they wanted only to repair Thai democracy after the alleged abuse it suffered under the government they deposed, headed by Thaksin Shinawatra.
In the Australian Imperial Forces, mortality rates differed by 50-fold across units of similarly aged soldiers in France and the United Kingdom (G.D. Shanks, unpub. data).
In recent days, Chilean police made arrests of the aging ex soldiers in their homes.
In response to criticism, the government formed a high-level committee in 2004 to prevent the impressment of under-age soldiers.
But many in the military argue that 40-somethings are in better physical shape today and point out that thousands of middle-age soldiers are already rotating through Iraq.
Fox, speaking on the steps of the Pentagon after meeting Gates, said: "We have seen significant progress made in the last 72 hours with Gaddafi's forces losing their grip on Misrata and we have received reports of under-age soldiers and foreign mercenaries being captured – this underlines the regimes inability to rely on its own security forces.
The 10 minute video chronicles the fate of 25 Syrian soldiers as they are led from Tadmur Prison to the ancient Palmyra Amphitheater where, in front of the black flag of IS, they are executed by what appears to be a group of teen-age soldiers.
Fighting in Korea, in 1951, Hector's regiment captures a teen-age soldier — not a soldier, really, but a bugler.
