The phrase "army dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a meal or gathering organized by or for members of the military.
Example: "The soldiers were excited for the annual army dinner, where they could enjoy a feast and camaraderie."
Alternatives: "military dinner" or "soldier's banquet".
Richard Cousins, chief executive of the world's largest canteen catering firm Compass Group, employs almost 430,000 staff around the globe, including an army of school dinner ladies.
BACKSTAGE at this year's French Designer Showhouse was like a scene from Luis Buñuel's film "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," the surreal 1972 classic that follows a band of friends through a series of outrageous plot twists -- infidelity, assassination attempts, armies of unannounced dinner guests -- that fail to undermine the characters' unflappable self-control.
As the sun set over the Shaibah Airfields, a small group of us wandered over to a newly opened army recuperation centre for dinner.
The Romney/Rand reasoning means personhood would accrue not only to corporations but also to armies, baseball teams and dinner parties.
For them, Washington was a very small town, and Goodwin lovingly re-creates its atmosphere of large houses run by small armies of servants, nearly nightly dinner parties, workdays interrupted for midafternoon horseback rides and golf games, discussions of Tolstoy, and weeks-long vacations.
But Mr. Kerry did meet Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, for dinner in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday.
A couple of months later, at his brother's army base, Mr. Solomonov held a memorial dinner that he says changed the direction of his life.
Then it was down to the Thanksgiving dinner provided by the US army, with turkey, cranberry sauce and stuffing transported from a forward operating base.
General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the army, was reported yesterday to have told a private dinner of MPs that there were too few troops and helicopters available.
These questions hang over a million European dinner tables.But America can boast an army of intellectuals whose job description is revving the country up still further.
All this is destined for the communal dinner table - and for the inconspicuous barefoot army of staff who keep the place running with gentle dignity and kindness.
