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Trump on Iran: At least 13 US service men and over 3400 Iranian service men, with an estimated 10,000 civilian casualties - including 168 school children
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"Service men"? Makes it sound like they are in the peace corps or missionaries. How about "soldier"?
servicemen is all branches. soldiers is army, airmen is airforce, etc. they are using precise language for the US military. it's literally the word they chose like, two hundred years ago i think?
Always feels newspeak-adjacent to me, idk
legal language is practically newspeak so you aren't wrong
Cause not everyone in the military is a soldier.
Do you have a better word that doesn't make militaries sound like they're on some charitable mission
In Germany they're called citizens in uniform nowadays