combat roles
Military job assignments
Combat roles are military positions that involve direct engagement with enemy forces.
The term gained prominence in debates over whether women should serve in frontline units: The military lifted its ban on women in combat roles.
More broadly, any position where fighting is the primary duty rather than support or logistics.
- paratrooperMilitary aerial deployer
- grenadierElite explosive-hurling soldier
- servicewomenWomen in military roles
- infantryGround combat troops
- ground troopsSoldiers operating on land
officer · airwomen · machine gunner · sniper · forward observer · direct action · soldier · female warriors · commanding officer · field engineer · corpsman · armed forces · armor · scout · radioman · charge · rifle · cover
- warwarfare, battle scenes, battles, soldier, soldiers
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, gender equality, feminism
- military enlistmentenlistment, recruit, enlisted, induction, recruits
military function
combat rolessupport staff
Workers aiding main operations
non-combat roles · administrative roles · logistics · desk jobs · medical corps