Definition of chairborne in US English:
chairborne
adjectiveˈCHerbôrnˈCHerbôrn
military slang Assigned to a desk job rather than field duty.
Example sentencesExamples
- But I will not listen to the chairborne commandos who tell me that our military cannot defeat the regime.
- In this we hear the eternal conflict of chairborne and airborne, the gulf forever fixed between those who go and those who stay at home.
- While these guys are in the 82nd Airborne, you can see that what they write is sure to infuriate the patriots in the 101st Chairborne.
- Oh, and I am a chairborne ranger, and as my husband likes to say ‘secretary’.
- After quietly poking around in 16 Army camps and indoctrination centers, the Senate Preparedness subcommittee this week concluded that the Armed Forces still have too many chairborne troops.