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Infantry means foot soldiers, as distinct from tankers, artillerymen, engineers, and other specialists. The foot soldiers are the ones who actually have to looking for the enemy with a gun in their hands and do the army's business of defeating the enemy.

A battalion is an organizational unit, usually with about 800 or so men. There are battalions of many types, to perform many functions, including infantry battalions.

A rifleman is the basic infantryman, armed the army's standard weapon. He is a member of a squad. His squad is one of several in a platoon. His platoon with three or four others are a company. Three or four companies make a battalion.

Three battalions make a regiment, and three regiments make a division. Two or more divisions make a corps, and two or more corps make a field army.

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