Say the soldiers got into trouble (7)
I believe the answer is:
mention
'say' is the definition.
(mentioning is a kind of saying)
'the soldiers got into trouble' is the wordplay.
'the soldiers' becomes 'men' (I've seen this before).
'got' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'trouble' indicates anagramming the letters.
'into' anagrammed gives 'ntio'.
'men' placed around 'ntio' is 'MENTION'.
(Other definitions for mention that I've seen before include "Speak of - refer to" , "Briefly refer to (something)" , "Remark" , "state" , "Acknowledge" .)