Conscript and Commando

noun

• Someone who is drafted into military service.
  • synonyms: draftee, inductee

verb

• Enroll into service compulsorily.
  • usage: "The men were conscripted"

• (v.t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
• (n.) One taken by lot or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
• (a.) Enrolled; written; registered.

noun

• A member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids.
  • synonyms: ranger
• An amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory. .

(v.t.) In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.