infantry

IPA: ˈɪnfʌntri

Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
(uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.
A regiment of infantry.

Examples of "infantry" in Sentences

Personally, years in infantry made me really, really comfort with the AR plus it is very accurate.
JOULWAN: When you look at what we call infantry, boots on the ground, Marine and Army units, they're not 2.4 million.
Women are barred from ground jobs in infantry, armor and artillery units and are technically confined to support roles.
George Patton called it "… the greatest battle implement ever devised," and it was our main infantry weapon in the last war we won.
"Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war," he wrote.
Yes, truck drivers, radio operators, cooks all serve in infantry units, but I'm quite sure personnel with other than an infantry or special forces MOS are not eligible, regardless of the circumstances.
The infantry is undergoing the last throes of the destruction of its regimental system, having found itself squeezed into 34 conventional regular infantry battalions plus three regular battalions of the Parachute Regiment.