I’m career and retired Navy, and not once did anyone refer to me - or any of my fellow sailors - as a soldier.
“I’m career and retired Navy, and not once did anyone refer to me - or any of my fellow sailors - as a soldier.”
Didn’t I say the possible exception was the Navy? Yes, I did.
The fact remains that many people who have never been in the military DO refer to all servicemen as soldiers, kind of like a generic. I was USAF, and I was called a soldier many times (once by my own aunt), even though I explained that the USAF has Airmen, not soldiers.