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At that point there'll be ten American sodiers for every British squaddy.

Does Obama Need Britain in Afghanistan? 2009

At that point there'll be ten American sodiers for every British squaddy.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

THOMPSON: A current work in progress shows Saddam Hussein being arrested by a squaddy and marched off.

CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2003 2003

I played the confused bonehead, the scared, abandoned squaddy.

Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

Your mind just can't recollect anything; you're just a thick, bone squaddy, one of the minions, and you haven't got a clue, you don't even know what kind of helicopter it was.

Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

The face of a squaddy was briefly illuminated as he lit a cigarette.

Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

I had very short hair at the time, and I wasn't allowed to talk in Andersontown because people would think I was a squaddy.

Invisible Sun, 7'' 1981

A squaddy I knew was dancing with a ravishing Indonesian woman with her hair coiled in a bun at the back of her sleek head.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

The fog would vanish; the day would buzz like a saw; every squaddy alive would break out in a muck sweat; monkeys would start to pass out in the trees.

A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

I remember the pleasures of the Balkan Sobranie cigarette I smoked as a squaddy, the small cigar I took to as a solitary traveller, the wines of Haute-Savoie, pink gin and Bloody

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