infantry

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We were wearing matching unit hats: We served in different brigades within the same infantry division.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

The Minneapolis-born, Princeton and Harvard graduate served as an infantry platoon leader in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

The former Fox News personality, who served as an Army National Guard infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, disdains rules of engagement and other guardrails as constraining to the “warrior ethos.”

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

Previously, Athenian military enterprise had depended on a small elite, men wealthy enough to provide horses to serve as cavalry or to equip themselves as hoplites, a type of armored infantry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

He honesdy believed that the grenadiers and light infantry were merely going to be taught ‘new evolutions.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes