Personnel and Squad

Personnel

Personnel noun - A body of persons at work or available for work.

Usage example: we finally have enough personnel to start that big project

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Squad and personnel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Squad" instead a noun "Personnel".

Squad noun - A group of people working together on a task.

Usage example: the cleaning squad usually arrives after regular business hours

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Personnel and squad are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Personnel" instead a noun "Squad".

good	good personnel	good squad
female	female personnel	female squad
special	special personnel	special squad
allied	allied personnel	allied squad
Other adjectives: regular, active, entire, real, trained, new, former, military, imperial, soviet.

Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun has a squad of generic military personnel who threaten the cast around episode 6.

Source: Punch Clock Villain / Anime and Manga
Dead Space plays all elements of the trope but the key one - your character is not military personnel himself, just a simple civilian engineer who was assigned to a squad of proper space marines.

Source: A Space Marine Is You
An APC, or Armored Personnel Carrier, simply shuttles the squad to and from battle.

Source: Awesome Personnel Carrier

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