Plebe
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a first year student at a US military academy; a cadet common person
Cadet
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.Junior, the younger or youngest son.
Example sentence: Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.