Recruits
Drill can help turn recruits into soldiers by training them and testing them from being a soldier and by observing them what they can do
Hitler used children in WWII
Colonail milita trained for moth; modern slodiers are hardly trained at all
See the Wikipedia article linked to below.
milita
Professional soldiers for hire.
there were German mercenaries that fought for Britain in the American revolutionary war called hessians, Australia and Canada helped fight WWI and WWII for Britain, Britain also recruits nepalese soldiers which are called gurkhas and are still part of the britsih army, India in colonial times were occupation soldiers in Asia for Britain too.
Yup.
The quartering Act required colonial assemblies to house and pay British soldiers.
pumping up the soldiers
farming, being soldiers.