To: Lazamataz
What's wrong with Armed Forces? It worked for many years.
36 posted on
12/27/2003 11:00:45 AM PST by
basil
To: basil
The problem is, Armed Forces is an entity as a whole. Troops has traditionally referred to individual but multiple soldiers/sailors/airmen, and Troop -- at first a strange term, but you get used to it -- has traditionally referred to a single soldier/sailor/airman.
37 posted on
12/27/2003 11:03:08 AM PST by
Lazamataz
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