soldier = sailor (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

As a frozen compound, that's different.

JL

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > CNN seems to like "fighter," "trooper," and "troop," in roughly that
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> > The latter are not (yet) applied to un-uniformed guerrillas or
> > terrorists.
> > But come back in twenty years.
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> I don't think you'd have to look too hard to find some of them
> designated as "freedom fighters".
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