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Soldiers feel I'm out of place in the Navy (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

riflemen

'soldiers' is the definition.
(rifleman is a kind of soldier)

'feel i'm out of place in the navy' is the wordplay.
'out of place' indicates an anagram.
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'navy' becomes 'RN' (abbreviation for Royal Navy).
'feel'+'im'='feelim'
'feelim' anagrammed gives 'ifleme'.
'ifleme' placed inside 'rn' is 'RIFLEMEN'.

(Another definition for riflemen that I've seen is " Armed soldiers".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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