Sentence examples for soldiers first from inspiring English sources

Soldiers first heard the rebel yell.

"We are soldiers first," he said.

We all have our opinions, but we're soldiers first".

These men are not just football players, they are soldiers first.

Not until 1995 did German soldiers first join a NATO peacekeeping mission, in Bosnia.

It had been a day to behold when the Union soldiers first arrived in Oxford, Mississippi.

As martial investments in drones and other remote-controlled forms of surveillance and lethal weaponry increase each year, contemporary warfare has come to resemble (and even depend upon for training soldiers) "first-person shooter" video games.

"We were musicians first and soldiers second in the band," he reflected long afterward.

The Raconteurs released a fairly good debut album, "Broken Boy Soldiers" (Third Man/V2), in May.

If he wants to give his soldiers second-rate food and sell what he's getting for them from us, well, we can work with that.

While in hospital, he collected other soldiers' first-hand accounts of the war that detailed their injuries, but also included sketches.