The story of the war has never been told before from the standpoint of the common Soviet soldier, though Russians already have an emblem of the ordinary infantryman.
Light infantry sometimes carried lighter muskets than ordinary infantrymen while others carried rifles and wore rifle green uniforms.
The quarrel between elite troops and the ordinary infantryman went back as far as war itself, Blade knew.
For days beforehand Soult had dressed himself in an ordinary infantryman's uniform and performed outpost duty to observe the Austrian positions.
The Israeli military began widespread use of telescopic sights by ordinary infantrymen to increase hit probability (especially in dim light) and extend effective range of standard issue infantry rifles.
Finally the Army reluctantly accepts him as an ordinary infantryman.
Even the ordinary infantrymen managed to look exotic on ceremonial parade, though the baggy scarlet trousers of the Zouaves tended to make almost anything else look dull.
Many bore scars on their bodies, because their job was more dangerous and demanding than that of ordinary infantrymen.
The Zf-41 was in fact the first attempt to provide the ordinary infantryman with a rifle capable of being used, if not for pure sniping, then at least for sharpshooting.
He'd been trained for this as an ordinary infantryman, but that had been twenty years ago.