serviceman

noun

ser·vice·man | \ ˈsər-vəs-ˌman

, -mən\

Definition of serviceman

1 : a male member of the armed forces

2 : a man employed to repair or maintain equipment

3 : a gas station attendant

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wishing our servicemen overseas the best of luck

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Harry was inspired after a visit to the 2013 Warrior Games, a competition for wounded servicemen organized by the U.S. Department of Defense. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Will Celebrate a Major Milestone at the 2018 Invictus Games," 19 Oct. 2018 After the incident, Donald Trump came under fire for mishandling the phone calls to the slain servicemen’s families. — Britni Danielle, Essence.com, "ISIS Releases Video Of Deadly Niger Ambush That Killed Sgt. La David Johnson, US Soldiers," 5 Mar. 2018 As well as watching the first day of the tennis, Middleton also met with servicemen at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club beforehand. — Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, "Kate Middleton Wore a Dolce & Gabbana Polka Dot Dress to Wimbledon," 3 July 2017 The exercise will involve 50,000 NATO servicemen and women, 150 aircraft, 65 ships, and 10,000 vehicles. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "U.S. Carriers Are Operating in the Arctic Circle for the First Time in Decades," 22 Oct. 2018 Many more servicemen and -women return with injuries that, in the past, might have killed them. — Lydia Woolever, Popular Mechanics, "How Families Are Taking Care of Wounded Veterans," 28 Nov. 2018 Months earlier, North Korea had sunk a South Korean naval vessel in waters nearby, killing 46 servicemen. — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, "Two Miles from North Korea, Islanders Brace for an Uneasy Peace," 3 Nov. 2018 Arguably, Hold the Dark’s real protagonist is Vernon Sloane, a grim and quiet veteran who’s introduced gunning down militants in Iraq with unbudging precision then murdering a fellow serviceman without ever changing expression. — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, "Netflix’s Hold the Dark throws Jeffrey Wright to the wolves," 28 Sep. 2018 And so the attacks by off-the-clock military servicemen on these communities in 1943 presented the opportunity for blatant violence on zoot suiters. — Mariana Gonzalez, Teen Vogue, "How the Zoot Suit Became a Symbol of Resistance for Mexican-American People," 21 Sep. 2018

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