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Discover LudwigThe word "infantry" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to refer to soldiers who fight on foot, usually in a large formation or army. Example sentence: The infantry marched out at dawn, ready to fight for their country.
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infantry
noun
Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
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A bigger programme of infantry training is expected to follow soon after taking the total number of trainers to 75.
It continues to provide technical training to military and police forces fighting Boko Haram and advanced training to a Nigerian infantry battalion.
In particular, it will mean dealing with car and truck bombs and roadside devices, as well as basic infantry skills.
Initially 30 trainers will be despatched to Kiev with 25 providing advice on medical training, logistics, intelligence analysis and infantry training.
The Syrian army come in tanks and accompanied by infantry soldiers.
Four million conversations on the ground can change a lot of minds, but Labour's infantry will still struggle to be heard over the roar of the anti-Miliband jets.
In Zero Dark Thirty and Captain Phillips, Seal teams emerge only at the climax, with the long tail of logistical support from conventional aviation, infantry and intelligence units obscured by the shadow of the elite.
"The Big Red One" was the first infantry division, which saw about 3,000 of its 16,000 men killed, wounded or captured on D-day.
The disgruntled lower cadre of the army (mainly infantry) have continuously complained about lack of equipment, combat logistics, food and timely payment of salaries.
Early in his 35-year career in America's Marine Corps he was sent to Vietnam, where he suffered injury and illness while serving as an infantry advisor to local forces and later as a company commander.
The Chinese had no aircraft (Stalin, sensibly enough, had broken his promise to provide them), only such heavy artillery as the retreating Americans abandoned to them and no portable radios to co-ordinate their infantry.
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