GIs

This leaves many soldiers suspicious that other GIs are avoiding combat duty.

Repeated deployments weigh heavily on U.S. troops 2010

The GIs are the honest brokers in an Iraq recovering from vicious sectarian fighting, and they are crucial to building a steadily improving Iraqi Army.

Obama and Iraq 2009

It was the name that GIs called the area around My Lai.

Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

Many such publications were the work of civilians who were working alongside GIs, which is the case of GI Special.

This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here 2009

[VI, 3] that "noninfantry combatants were not ordinarily referred to as GIs" during WW II.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2 1980

“From Broadway to Guadalcanal, on the backs of trucks, makeshift platforms, and elegant theater stages,” writes historian Allan Bérubé, “American GIs did put on all-male shows for each other that almost always featured female impersonation routines.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The all-female satiric play The Women, which had become a gay camp classic before the war and would be a staple of gay theater through the 1950s and 1960s, was one of the most popular shows put on by GIs.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Throughout all the shocks and aftershocks of the ensuing half century and even into the next millennium the GIs and their wives and widows would form the bedrock of American religious institutions and of civic institutions as well.20

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

As a result, roughly 10 percent of American GIs contracted venereal disease during the war.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Bérubé notes that the great influx of women into the military services beginning in 1942 and many attempts to stage male-and-female productions did not reduce the demand among GIs for all-male drag shows.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010