combat veterans
Soldiers who fought
Combat veterans are military personnel who have served in active warfare, experiencing direct engagement with enemy forces.
The term distinguishes those who faced combat from veterans who served without seeing battle.
Combat veterans often struggle with the transition to civilian life.
The phrase carries weight in discussions of military benefits, PTSD, and the moral authority to speak on war.
- woundsBodily tissue damage
- PTSDChronic reaction to horrific events
- infantryGround combat troops
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
deployment · boots on the ground · reintegration · traumatic brain injury · camaraderie · resilience · hypervigilance · community support · chronic pain · family dynamics · coping mechanisms · depression · discharge · Agent Orange · flashbacks · survivor's guilt · peer groups · shell
- Veteransveteran, vets, war veteran, VA, navy veteran
- veterans groupsAmerican Legion, VFW, veteran services, veteran assistance, veteran affairs
- naval figuresadmirals, captains, commanders, commodores, naval officers
- war memoirswar memoirs, wartime memoirs, war stories, war diaries, wartime letters
- Latino Veterans
combat veteransraw recruits
Inexperienced new military members
cadets · trainees · enlistees · rookies · conscripts
combat veteranscivilians
Non-military population
noncombatants · civilian population · draft dodgers · conscientious objectors · pacifists