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In the 1930s-1940s, a GI soldier was a soldier who fought in World War II. In World War II, everything a soldier used was "Government Issued" or GI, although there are other interpretations of what the acronym GI stands for. Supposedly, the soldiers began to call themselves GI soldiers.

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