However, the vast majority were considered incompetent due to their being essentially amateur soldiers with no prior training or knowledge.

In Scotland, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, nicknamed Bobbin' John, raised the Jacobite clans but proved to be an indecisive leader and an incompetent soldier.

The Confed was inclined to let the place rot and die on its own-the military outpost was a token, no more, and only incompetent soldiers wound up there.

As a result, the Red and Blue armies consist only of incompetent or unwanted soldiers who would not be missed by the regular armed forces.

He proves to be an incompetent soldier and soon spends time in an infirmary with pneumonia.

The guards were incompetent soldiers, unaccustomed to sophisticated, trained killers like Yorek Thurr.

He served his time in a unit of unfit and incompetent soldiers, and never fired a weapon at the enemy.

Although Elphinstone was a man of high birth and perfect manners, his colleague and contemporary General William Nott regarded him as "the most incompetent soldier who ever became general".

She was not about to let it all slip away because of incompetent soldiers.

In the following scene, Willard reads a letter by Kurtz, criticizing the incompetent young soldiers sent to Vietnam, blaming them for their losing.