Yeah, Marines particularly don’t like being called “soldier”, they’re not soldiers they’re Marines. Probably same for the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, CIA ope

Yeah, Marines particularly don’t like being called “soldier”, they’re not soldiers they’re Marines. Probably same for the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, CIA operatives, etc. The civilian executive branch probably had a headache over that, and just started using the catchall term warfighter to refer to them all.