Squaddie and Trooper

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Trooper and squaddie are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trooper" instead a noun "Squaddie".

Trooper noun - A person engaged in military service.

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Squaddie and trooper are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Squaddie" instead a noun "Trooper".

Nearby Words: troop, trooped, trooping

The US Paratroopers' song Blood on the Risers is an archetypal squaddie song, and is about a young trooper whose first parachute jump goes horribly wrong.

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Subverted in US Army Airborne troops' squaddie song Blood on the Risers where the young trooper carefully checks everything except his static line (which would deploy the main parachute automatically).

Source: Hollywood Skydiving

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