The word Infantry is used to refer to soldiers, marines, or SEALs who are trained primarily to fight on foot. The infantry is the oldest branch of the Combat Arms of all forces. Soldiers fought on foot before guns, artillery, or any modern technology was ever thought about.
The infantryman endures more hardship then any other soldier regardless of the job that that soldier does. Infantry soldiers (especially light infantry) have to endure every hardship known to man because war dosen’t take a break because of bad weather or any other element. Infantry soldiers train all times of day or night and in all kinds of weather. Special Operations soldiers are infantrymen who are highly trained in specific types of combat operations. So they are used in special situations.
Every soldier is trained to some degree to fight as an infantryman and every soldier may have to be used as infantry in emergencies, but when things get to that point there is something wrong. The entire rest of the army is designed to support the infantryman some directly and some indirectly.
Modern technology and precision armament helps to reduce the role of infantry in battle, but no matter how much precision weaponry and air power you may have you can’t win a war without infantry soldiers. This is why you will find that most of the detail work available to design custom military rings will relate to the infantry in some way. We recently did a military ring for a mechanic and as we did the ring I realized that even his job was as a mechanic he had to fix vechicles for the infantry soldiers to ride in.
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