Kurt Vonnegut

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

American Writer

George Grosz

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

German Artist

Tom Cotton

Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

American Politician

Mark Helprin

I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

American Novelist

Brendan Behan

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Irish Dramatist

An infantryman refers to a specific role within the army, distinct from roles like pilots or tank operators.

Role Clarity

An infantryman is primarily associated with direct combat on the battlefield, not with support or administrative duties.

Combat Specific

'Infantryman' describes a role within the infantry; it's not a military rank like Sergeant or Lieutenant.

Not a Rank

 is that he's going to be fighting another heavy infantryman. When he says, "Come to me that I might feed your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field," the key phrase is "Come to me." Come up to me because we're going to fight, hand to hand, like this.

The unheard story of...

 States Army infantryman I was 26 my daughter was born two months before we deployed it's in those first couple days certain