Question for milspeak experts
Sun, 09/16/2007 - 9:04am — lambert
In his Congressional testimonies, General Petraeus kept using the word "troopers" to describe individual soldiers.
Is this a new back-formation, whereby a "trooper" is the singular of "the troops"?
Did Petraeus coin the word?
Or is it the customary term in the military? Read more…

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