national guardsman

noun

often capitalized
: a member of a national guard

Examples of national guardsman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web From the witness testimony of NCIS special agent John C. Little, given in North Carolina in August 2021 during the detention hearing of Joseph Maurino, a New Jersey national guardsman charged with supplying neo-Nazis with untraceable weapons. Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 May 2023 Massachusetts air national guardsman Jack Teixeira, who is accused of leaking hundreds of classified U.S. military documents, will be back in court later this week. Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 8 May 2023 Enlarge / Photo illustration shows the Discord logo and the suspect, national guardsman Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023 Today, a closer look at how a young air national guardsman shook the military intelligence community. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2023 Federal investigators on Thursday arrested an air national guardsman suspected of leaking classified intelligence documents about the war in Ukraine. Tori Otten, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023 Josiah Garcia, a Tennessee air national guardsman, was arrested on April 12 after being accused of turning to parody website RentAHitman.com looking for work. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2023 As the first helicopters reached the airstrip, Serhiy Falatyuk, a 25-year-old national guardsman, propped an Igla surface-to-air system dating to the Soviet Union on his shoulder, peered through the sight and fired a missile. Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022 One national guardsman assigned to the operation died while trying to save drowning migrants. Armando Garcia, ABC News, 7 July 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of national guardsman was in 1831

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“National guardsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/national%20guardsman. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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