WordNet
raw recruit
n. an inexperienced and untrained recruit
Usage examples of "raw recruit".
The two most dangerous positions in a cavalry platoon were junior officer and raw recruit.
And what would it be like, with all her experience, to be a raw recruit again?
In European armies at the time, a man who had been drilled for three months was still considered a raw recruit.
I've never been asked to explain my duties to a raw recruit before.
The ship was being jeopardized on a faint chance of saving one raw recruit.
Some raw recruit fresh out of Sunside, who yet fancied himself a Lord?