Why did these seemingly hapless soldiers fight so bravely in Jelalabad?

"Yes, sir," the hapless soldier replied.

Erini, listening intently and growing more shocked with each word, fully expected the counselor to vent his rage and power on the two hapless soldiers.

The other attacker, no more than a head and two arms, was slowly dragging the other hapless soldier backwards.

The second mile of huge guns and the hapless soldiers who manned them to the end was simply bombed into the earth.

Entreri retracted his hand, stabbing the blade out and up behind him into the belly and up into the lungs of the hapless soldier.

Was she afraid when she took chances to rescue the handsome but hapless soldier?

Finding nothing, they decide to have Simon autopsy the hapless soldier, but the doctors' first incision causes the "dead" man to leap up and struggle with the gathered crew.

In her novels and short stories, fighter jets drop rabid dogs and a hapless soldier accidentally fires a Patriot missile into a country club.

Our argument has never been with the people of Iraq, with those hapless soldiers that were sent to a fate that they didn't even know what was in store for them.