The word "serviceman" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a man who provides a service, especially in the military. For example, "The serviceman was thanked for his honorable service."
The 67-year-old retired serviceman oversees a shrine to the Deutsche Mark, the symbol of postwar German success, running a small museum devoted to the remarkable birth and lamented death of the currency.
But more than 100,000 turned up to see a lone Indigenous serviceman playing the yidaki at sunrise – a moment of acute commemorative (and televisual) sentiment and emotion.
A serviceman, caught prising a brick, has been disciplined.
Nor, on moral grounds, would the serviceman in charge kill him.
Early on, MORI found that 52% believed that retaking the islands was not worth the life of single British serviceman.
Later Mr Mughniya was held responsible for the capture of dozens of Western hostages, who were traded in exchange for arms for his Iranian and Palestinian allies.He went into hiding after his indictment for the murder in 1985 of an American serviceman during the hijack of a TWA airliner.
As The Economist went to press, the police were interviewing two men apparently John Allen Muhammad, an ex-serviceman, and his stepson in connection with the case.The two men were arrested early in the morning of October 24th in Maryland.
On hearing intruders break in, the homeowner's son, a disabled ex-serviceman, reached for his (legal) gun.
As one ex-serviceman, a Mexican-American, put it in an Albuquerque bar: "He's a Mexican, and they'll never elect a Mexican".
Mikel Myers, an unemployed ex-serviceman, told me that if Mr Obama secures a second term: "It'll be over for the capitalist system".
ON JULY 14th a British newspaper revealed that "The Cuckoo Calling", a crime novel ostensibly by an ex-serviceman called Robert Galbraith, had actually been written by J.K. Rowling, the author of the "Harry Potter" series and the first female novelist to become a billionaire.
