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In 2003: Qusay and Uday Hussein, sons of Iraqi dictator Sadam Hussein, were killed by U.S. Special Forces and infantrymen from 101st Airborne after a three-hour firefight in the city of Mosul, Iraq.—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2025 Travis Decker is a former US Army infantryman and staff sergeant with eight years of service, including five months in Afghanistan, according to a US Army spokesperson.—Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 8 June 2025 Retes was an infantryman in the Army deployed to Iraq in 2019.—ABC News, 20 July 2025 The offensive would require more than a hundred thousand British infantrymen, and every soldier seemed at least dimly aware of what lay in store.—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for infantryman
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