bullet catcher
n.— «Congress just decided to take all the women out of combat support MOS fields like mine, probably relegating them to service jobs like Finance, Personnel, and various orderly rooms and S1-S3 kind of roles. This means that the paper pushing males will have to take up these support roles a do their time as bullet catchers.» —“Memories” by David Shrauger Living Iraq Journal May 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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