Definition of "raw recruit" []

• An inexperienced and untrained recruit (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Nor could Caepio Junior’s feelings about Arausio ever be free from guilt; while Drusus and Sertorius and Sextus Caesar and even that Silo fellow lay on the field given up for dead, he had run away across the river like a kicked cur, no less anxious to survive than the least Head Count raw recruit in his legion."