What are the different types of soldiers in the war?

Answer 1

As well as the obvious groups of "fighting soldiers" (Infantry, Armour, Gunners etc) - rarely more than about 40% of a modern Army's total personnel strength - armies contain pretty well all the occupational and technical specialties that'll be found in society at large. Male or female, and irrespective of specialty, all are soldiers first, although Ministers of Religion and Medical Doctors are usually described as "non-combatants".

Most modern armies categorize soldiers along the following lines, or something similar:

1.) "Combat Arms" (aka "Teeth Arms") - those whose primary role is direct combat with the enemy - eg Infantry, Armour/ Cavalry, and often, these days, Air Corps (attack helicopters etc).

2.) "Combat Support Arms" - those whose job is to provide direct support to the Combat branches - eg Artillery, Engineers, Signals & Communications, Intelligence.

3.) "Support Services" - those whose main job is to keep the army functioning; to enable it to sustain itself in the field, plus necessary administrative functions - eg Logistics/ Equipment Engineering services; Medical and Dental; Pay and general administration; Legal; Spiritual & Religious etc..

These distinctions are not, however, as clear cut as they may appear to the uninformed, and many members of Support Services may, in reality, often come into direct/ violent contact with hostile forces. For example, it's normal practice for medical personnel to work alongside combat troops (eg doctors & paramedics attached to units), and all mechanised forces will have significant numbers of equipment engineers attached: in the British Army, for example, teams from the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (called "Recovery Mechanics") ride into battle alongside tanks and infantry combat vehicles in their own "Armoured Recovery Vehicles" - tracked and armoured specialised engineering vehicles. Their job is to carry out "field expedient repairs" on lightly damaged tanks/ MICVs; to keep combat vehicles in action if possible; to recover more heavily damaged vehicles from the battlefield, or - if necessary - destroy them totally to prevent them falling into enemy hands. Most of this will be done under fire, or, at least, in the face of hostile forces. Recovery Mechanics are fully trained and armed soldiers, and frequently do have to fight in order to get their job done.

Similarly, "Combat Medical Technicians" (paramedics) of the Royal Army Medical Corps accompany the Infantry in combat (and are fully armed, and trained as combatants) to provide life saving aid (eg tourniquets; chest drains; tracheostomies; haemostop; pain relief etc) to injured troops until (hopefully!) they can be evacuated to a field hospital. Doctors are, technically, "non-combatant", but usually carry sidearms in war zones, which they're trained (and expected!) to use if necessary to protect patients.

Signals and communications specialists will be found everywhere from Corps and Divisional HQs to small semi-independent units (perhaps monitoring enemy comms, or attached to Special Forces units), and every battalion, regiment, or "battle group", will have signals sections as vital components of their HQs/ Command groups.

Logistics Corps personnel may well find themselves under enemy attack - and have to fight to defend themselves and their equipment and stores. Also, many Combat Arm soldiers may have specialist roles which require them to AVOID direct combat for much of the time. For example, the primary job of reconnaissance personnel (usually Infantry or Armoured Cavalry) is usually to locate enemy forces and report on them, rather than engage them directly, although this will depend on exact circumstances/ specific mission parameters.

Army Engineers typically have a very wide "job spec" - major construction works (eg building bases/ fortifications, laying roads and airstrips, bridging, well drilling etc); operating military port and postal services; ordnance disposal; water supply etc, as well as "combat engineering" tasks in direct support of troops in combat - eg route reconnaissance and clearance; mine and obstacle clearance; combat bridging; major demolition etc.. Their responsibilities are vast, which is why most modern armies contain nearly as many field engineers as infantry, armour, and artillery troops. Engineers may carry out major "civil" construction projects (famously the US Army's Corps of Engineers built the Panama Canal!) having military importance. They do much of what is necessary to enable armies to fight, but also frequently lead formations in combat - eg breaching/ obstacle clearance.

Modern armies include many types of soldiers, but the bottom line is that all soldiers are trained to fight if necessary, irrespective of their "occupational specialty". This is why "basic training" tends to include a lot of combat training (in the US Army it's called "Basic Combat Training" to emphasise the point), and all recruits are trained to an essential level of competence in weapon handling, infantry skills and tactics.

In the British Army basic training (called "Common Military Syllabus - Recruit") lasts 14 weeks, and is common to all, although officer cadets are expected to cover the same ground in 5 weeks - a test of "character". Throughout their service all British soldiers must undergo regular "refresher" training in the "infantry basics". So, for example, a storeman or driver in the Logistics Corps will spend at least two weeks each year undergoing purely infantry training. The United States Marine Corps has a similar attitude ("Every Marine a Rifleman!"), and to that end, upon completion of "Boot Camp" every new Marine undertakes 4-5 weeks of general infantry training before proceeding to whatever specialty training is necessary.

Answer 2

Well there were many soldiers used in the WW1 but the main ones are volunteers, these are people who volunteer to go for the war, there are conscripts who are soldiers that were meant to be going into the war and lastly there were boy soldiers how were soldiers that younger that the actual age to be a soldier.

Answer 3

soldiers, air force, navy, marines, ect.