sick soldiers
Ailing military personnel
Sick soldiers are military personnel who are ill, injured, or otherwise medically unfit for duty.
The phrase appears in military contexts discussing medical care, troop readiness, and wartime logistics: The field hospital was overwhelmed with sick soldiers.
Historically significant in discussions of how disease often killed more soldiers than combat.
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- war woundsHarm sustained in battle
- injuredHaving sustained harm
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- combat traumaHarm sustained in warfare
battle fatigue · medic · field medic · infirmary · army nurse · stretcher · stretcher bearer · bandages · fever · dysentery · trench · trench foot · hospital · corpsman · triage · medical tent · ambulance · malaria