Sentence examples for combat infantryman from inspiring English sources

A combat infantryman in Afghanistan?

And the Combat Infantryman Badge isn't.

The Combat Infantryman Badge, or C.I.B., is awarded for spending at least sixty days under fire.

In between, he served as a combat infantryman in Europe in World War II.

In Everman's cabin, I saw medal after medal, including the coveted Combat Infantryman Badge.

I was a combat infantryman in The Hurtgen Forest and Battle ofthe Bulge 1944.

It was a quiet deployment; junior soldiers envied Sergeant Dell's Combat Infantrymen's Badge, earned in a fight that came with a Purple Heart.

But Napoleonic combat was a very different kind of warfare, with different trauma, than what American combat infantrymen experience today.

She noticed that many younger veterans have congregated around a photograph taken by Damon Winter of The New York Times showing hundreds of combat-ready infantrymen sitting in the cavernous bay of a military transport plane headed to Afghanistan.

"I'm sure at the time they appreciated what we did, and especially the current group that's fighting now," said Leo Kramedjian, 77, who saw combat as an infantryman in the Philippines toward the end of World War II.

Mr. Willbanks, a military veteran who saw combat as an infantryman during North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive, tries to show that the Nixon administration was focused more on ending the war than on winning it and that the U.S. came a lot closer to "winning" than many people believe today.