A "unit" can be anything from a company (typically between 100 - 150 personnel) up to a Division (10,000 - 15,000 personnel, typically), and may even be applied to larger formations.
General Nelson A. Miles.
Up your butt and around the corner. :)
Vice Chief of Staff.
Conscription.
Soldiers in the USAF are called "Airmen". See US Air Force for a current strength number.
Soldiers in the USAF are called "Airmen". See US Air Force for a current strength number.
Because that is the standard unit of distance used in the US.
there were 4,400 casualties in the war in iraq, and about 200,000 returned home, so your ratio would be just about 50:1
US soldiers were recruited across the US states.
There are currently 9,000 US soldiers who are deployed to Afghanistan. They include a division headquarters unit, a combat aviation brigade unit, a corps headquarters unit and three brigade combat teams.
For soldiers on both sides of the US Civil War, a major and consistent threat for soldiers were diseases such as malaria and dysentery. Also, the large number of amputations during the war, often resulted in infections due to the lack of antibiotic medicines.
Yes. Many of the first Buffalo Soldiers were ex-slaves, but they were US soldiers and they were paid in US dollars.