The rank-and-file soldiers stood in neat rows at rigid attention.

Analysts differed over whether rank-and-file soldiers would heed their commanders' defiant words.

Those last comments had unnerved him: the rank-and-file soldiers believed he was dead.

He is a warrior whose swordsmanship skills have helped him rise above the rank-and-file soldiers and into power.

The rest, like rank-and-file soldiers, though readying themselves before the fight, meanwhile sought distraction.

Occasionally they serve as rank-and-file soldiers in the service of one or the other warlord.

However, colonial enlistment of rank-and-file soldiers was discouraged because it reduced agricultural settlement.

The boss of a clan is typically elected by the rank-and-file soldiers (though violent successions do happen).

Hill was affectionate with the rank-and-file soldiers and one officer called him "the most lovable of all Lee's generals."

After all, many officers and especially rank-and-file soldiers had little sympathy for Yeltsin.