"green army" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1998, Catherine Jones, Sisters In Arms",
          "text": "'We'll get the green army to keep an eye on the place, make sure there's not too much activity while our backs are turned,' said the ops officer.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2014, James Rennie, The Operators, Pen and Sword",
          "text": "Roger that. Feds and green army are blue lighting to you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Josef Black, SAS Special Operations Force (The Blades; 1), NYXZU Digital Press",
          "text": "Frodsham and his guard fell in alongside Tiger and Mack, Mack flicked the safety off his L85; an unreliable piece of crap that the green army troopers hated, and the SAS had replaced with M16's and then C8 SFW carbines.",
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        "The regular army, not including any special forces."
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        "(UK, military slang) The regular army, not including any special forces."
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        "Any of various armies of nonideological fighters who fought mainly just to keep both the Reds and the Whites from brutalizing their home regions."
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        "(historical, Russian Civil War, 1917-1923) Any of various armies of nonideological fighters who fought mainly just to keep both the Reds and the Whites from brutalizing their home regions."
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          "ref": "1998, Catherine Jones, Sisters In Arms",
          "text": "'We'll get the green army to keep an eye on the place, make sure there's not too much activity while our backs are turned,' said the ops officer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2014, James Rennie, The Operators, Pen and Sword",
          "text": "Roger that. Feds and green army are blue lighting to you.",
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          "text": "Frodsham and his guard fell in alongside Tiger and Mack, Mack flicked the safety off his L85; an unreliable piece of crap that the green army troopers hated, and the SAS had replaced with M16's and then C8 SFW carbines.",
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        "(UK, military slang) The regular army, not including any special forces."
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        "Any of various armies of nonideological fighters who fought mainly just to keep both the Reds and the Whites from brutalizing their home regions."
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        "(historical, Russian Civil War, 1917-1923) Any of various armies of nonideological fighters who fought mainly just to keep both the Reds and the Whites from brutalizing their home regions."
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