Er, what about “-er”? “Missileer” has a nice ring to it, I think. “Rifler” or “rifleer” would work in place of “rifleman”. After all, if a soldier with a musket could be a “musketeer”, why not?
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I believe I’m still on a “out of likes” moratorium, so thank you for this.
This also illustrates how gossip spreads from military channels to the non-military. It’s a soldier’s right to complain about their lives but, Christ, get it correct.
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We went through this … last year? A few dinosaurs moaned, everyone else got on with it, now people barely even remember the change.
Which reminds me …
It’s not really ‘taking the lead’ when you’re just following the rest of the world 
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We went with Infanteer
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There should be a version of “loose lips sink ships” for people.
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Omitting the strikethrough attribute leaves this quote askew:
Infantrymen Basic infantry Marines even more so.
“Infantrymen” is in strike-out text in the quoted article.
Quotes in replies lose formatting for some reason. Paging @codinghorror on the white courtesy phone…
Quotes in replies have never supported formatting, since 2013? Is there some other thing I am missing?
Is there a reason for that?
You can preserve the formatting when quoting by clicking here:
That will quote the entire post you’re replying to, original formatting and all.
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Take a cue from India.
Riflewallah.
Kinda rolls smoothly off the tongue.
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Shooty McShootface?
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Rifler
You’d be changing a word which is associated rather intimately with the marine corps
and replacing it with a term that means “plunderer and thief”
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I have a Chrome extension that does that. It doesn’t always work properly, but when it does, it’s usually pretty illuminating.
The Marine Corps is being gutted by political correctness treating people with respect!
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It can often be directly replaced with “I don’t want to show any respect of consideration to that group of humans”.
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True enough, though words can mean more than one thing, and can acquire new meanings. I don’t know when I last heard of someone rifling through anything.
Odd isnt it that people simultaneously complain about citation needed and no original research?
But the streets that surround this regal building also are home to some of Sacramento’s most destitute residents, many suffering from mental illness or drug addiction in addition to extreme poverty. It’s not uncommon to see them rifling through trash cans, shouting incoherently or sleeping barefoot in the shade on the Capitol’s manicured grounds.
that’s from 29 June 2016. I don’t blame you for not reading police blotters and the like, but
might disabuse you of the notion that it’s archaic.
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