For example, can someone in the Navy be a soldier, or are they only sailors? What about the marines? Thanks for your help!
2007-11-09 08:48:18 · 18 answers · asked by artsyfartsy 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Yikes, the first two answers are conflicting! I hope someone else answers!
2007-11-09 08:55:36 · update #1
Army=Soldier
Air Force=Airman
Navy=Sailor
Marine Corps=Marine
I hope this clarifies things.
2007-11-09 09:10:39 · answer #1 · answered by wichitaor1 7 · 14⤊ 0⤋
In the case of the United States military, the term "soldier" does NOT apply to all servicemembers of the military. A soldier is someone in the Army, a sailor is someone in the Navy, a Marine is someone in the Marines (which itself is a subset of the Navy), and an airman is someone in the Air Force. We don't have Marines in the Army, we don't have sailors in the Air Force, we don't have airmen in the Marines, we don't have soldiers in the Navy. Those are the proper terms to use, period. To refer to all the branches generically, the term "troops" or "servicemembers" are appropriate. Make sense?
2007-11-09 09:21:56 · answer #2 · answered by ಠ__ಠ 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
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Does the term "soldier" only refer to someone in the army? Are there different terms for different branches?
For example, can someone in the Navy be a soldier, or are they only sailors? What about the marines? Thanks for your help!
2015-08-19 05:15:11 · answer #3 · answered by Natosha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term soldier has been used in reference to all members of the military, although more commonly to those who are in the Army or Marines. This is a proper usage by the definition of the word. However, soldier is an amry specific word. The marines like to be called marines (the do have several other nicknames such as devil-dogs and jarheads but these are very informal). Navy - sailors, there is not a very generic term for people in the Air Force or the Coast Guard, common nicknames for them though are flyboys and coasties respectively.
2007-11-09 09:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by Ruby Winter 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Yeah, soldier is Army, sailor is Navy, Marine is ... well you know. The common term I've heard used within the military establishment to refer to members of all branches of the military is "warfighter"
2007-11-09 08:52:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-30 04:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually the term soldier can be used as a generic term to describe anyone in the military; even though in common use the Navy and Coast Guard either can be referred to as a generic "sailor" and the generic "soldier" is used for any non-sea based military. Personnel in the Army can always be addressed as "soldier", Navy can always be addressed as "sailor" since the generic is also there title. Air Force is airman or air-person I guess now, and Marines if addressed is Marines. By the way properly speaking Marine is always capitalized when referring to personnel of any countries Marines while the soldier, sailor and airman/air-person is not.
The reason it is confusing is that soldier can be properly used to describe any member of any military service but is not commonly done.
2007-11-09 09:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by GunnyC 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
OK, I think the public has had some bad info here.
Army = Soldier
Navy = Sailor
Marine = Marine
Air Force = Airmen
And no, it is NOT correct to use Soldier for anyone. I think lately that has been the term, just because the Army has alot more news notoriety. A "Troop" is definitely acceptable for anyone in the military. I know my fellow airmen hate being called soldiers. If you notice, everyone here who says soldier refers to anyone in the military is in the Army or a civilian.
2007-11-09 09:27:45 · answer #8 · answered by Mac 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The word, "soldier," correctly refers to anybody in the combat military.
However the various services have their own terms. Sailor refers to Navy personnel, Marine is Marine. Airman is Air force. But soldier is still Army.
2007-11-09 09:18:42 · answer #9 · answered by gugliamo00 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Army = Soldier
Air Force = Airman
Navy = Sailor
Marine Corps = Marine
Period. Calling anyone but the former a soldier isn't usually going to go over well.
Although technically you wouldn’t be wrong to call a ‘boots on the ground’ infantryman a soldier (by definition), if the infantryman is a Marine he should be addressed as such (likewise for sailors and airmen).
Can someone in the Marines, Navy, and Air Force be a soldier? Sure, but he or she wouldn’t be addressed as such.
2007-11-09 10:23:30 · answer #10 · answered by Yuriy 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋