[Eddy_Viscosity2]

"personnel" is too broad though as it could include all of the civilian support staff, admin staff, contractors, etc. Sometime you do want a term to collectively include all of these people, but sometimes you want to just refer to the ones actively doing the military bits and not the support bits.

[shawn_w]

Troops?

[stult]

Troops is almost exclusively used to refer to Army personnel in the US.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

Actually, yeah that works