The phrase "army material" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that possesses the qualities or characteristics deemed suitable for military service or a military environment.
Example: "After observing his discipline and leadership skills, the sergeant concluded that he was truly army material."
Alternatives: "military candidate" or "soldier potential".
(When a recruiter inevitably phoned, I politely told him, "I'm not Army material").
The army material comes more directly out of O'Hagan's own experiences.
"The roadways and paths are strewn with every conceivable kind of Army material, from muskets and accoutrements to cannon, caissons, supply wagons, lumber, pontoon boots and planks, dead horses and mules," one man recalled.
He was not what you might call Army material, but he cadged enough free time to bag a slew of first ascents with a cohort of Koreans, in the mountains around Seoul.
After identifying it as the cause of a massive infection of cotton-based army material, it was stored at the Quartermaster (QM) collection of the US army at Natick, where its cellulolytic potential was realised in the late 1960s [ 1].
The Iraqi regime brought massive quantities of army materials into Kuwait.
The evening lasts only an hour, but I longed to be free of the airless "hide", the bench with its small cushion covered in army camouflage material and the headphones with which we are issued – one of several ways in which the audience is made reluctantly complicit in the ongoing game.
He recycles, putting to good use army surplus materials and parachute silk.
Soldiers searched buildings, including broadcast offices, for what the army called "incitement material," or written material, videotapes and audiotapes that, in the judgment of Israeli officials, advocate terrorism.
Confederate ladies visiting Beauregard's army contributed silk material from their dresses to create the first three flags, for Beauregard, Johnston, and Earl Van Dorn; thus, the first flags contained more feminine pink than martial red.
Had our industry been mobilised properly and in time to supply the army with the necessary material, our wartime losses would have been decidedly smaller.
