troopmate
nounEtymology From troop + -mate.
1
One who is in the same military troop.
- After managing to drive his four troopmates back to base — valor that earned him a Bronze Star — Fields woke up in a hospital in Germany with a choice: have surgery and be discharged, or amputate and stay a soldier.2009 August 14, Alan Schwarz, “An Injured Soldier Re-emerges as a Sprinter”, in New York Times: