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Admiral:
Where the Admiral gazes down - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Armada.

Army.

Assassin/Assassination.

Battalion.

Brigade:
That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

Unblest by the brigades of spring - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"

Captain.

Cavalry:
Under the feet of the ocean cavalry - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"

Which bravely wait the charge of Winter's cavalry - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"

Cohort:
As forty brazen cohorts broke the foe - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Saw their shimmering cohorts pass - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"

Crew.

Deserter:
Deserter from the great autumn army - Linda Pastan "Repetitions: After Van Gogh: 1. Yellow"

Dragoon:
The heavy dragoons of the mind - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Enemy.

Fleet.

Foe.

General:
The general of shame - Robert Bly "My Father at Eighty-Five"

To be the General of Sorrow - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Guerrilla:
His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

Infantry:
The craven infantry of roaches - Jamaal May "Things That Break"

Insurgent:
From insurgent deeps impelled - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Ever insurgent let me be - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

Legion.

Lookout:
Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"

Marshal:
Marshalled armies in the silent air - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Mercenary:
Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

Militia:
Dark militia of the southern shore - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Musketeer:
Three musketeers of faithful following - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"

Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Officer:
Swarms of Officers to harass our people - Tracy K. Smith "Declaration"

Phalanx:
A phalanx of swift song made - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"

Crowded close in serried phalanx - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

So could Corruption's phalanx rest composed - Philo "The Tribute"

Platoon:
The ghosts of my platoon - Lou Barrett "Two Poets and a Physician: 1918"

Patrol.

Regiment:
Regimented shards of the Great Order - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Fight a million regiments of wrong - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

Scout:
While the rat is on the scout - William Cowper "The Cricket"

Sentinel.

Sentry.

Sergeant:
The stubborn sergeant men call Pride - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Daybreak is a drill sergeant - Misha Collins "The Sound and the Ferry"

Sniper:
Peer through sniper slots at the enemy's gowned grace - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Where daylong the sniper watches - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"

And the ever-watchful sniper - Robert Graves "Limbo"

Hiding from the sniper's crosshairs - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

Soldier.

Spy.

Squad:
Her sunrise scattering squads of shadows - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"

Squadron.

Standard-Bearer:
The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Terrorist:
Tools of a terrorist undertaking - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

Troop.

Vanguard:
The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"

The fading moon and the vanguard of the sun - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"

Sent their misty vanguard creeping - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"

Veteran:
Veteran of sheer drops and near misses - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

Warrior.

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