armed forces personnel
Troops in uniform
Armed forces personnel are members of a country's military—soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guard members.
The term encompasses both active duty and reserve components, officers and enlisted ranks alike.
It appears in formal, administrative, and legal contexts: Armed forces personnel are eligible for veterans' benefits, The base houses twelve thousand armed forces personnel.
- soldierArmed forces member
- active dutyCurrent military employment status
- medicEmergency care provider
- privateRestricted to certain parties
- peacekeepingPreventing or ending conflict
dog tags · logistics · infantry · corporal · navy · artillery · boots on the ground · combat medic · coast guard · chaplain · reservist · tour of duty · marines · reconnaissance · admiral · sergeant · drill sergeant · veteran
armed forces personnelcivilians
Non-military population
civilian population · noncombatants · civil society · ordinary citizens · the public
armed forces personnelpeacekeepers
Forces maintaining cease-fires
diplomats · peace activists · pacifists · conscientious objectors · humanitarian workers
armed forces personnelinsurgents
Those fighting established authority
rebels · guerrillas · resistance fighters · enemy combatants · paramilitaries
armed, forces, personnel, arm, arms, arming, unarmed, armament, armaments