shock troops

The United States Marines are the country’s elite shock troops and an expeditionary force that specializes in amphibious assaults.

In the last few months, when Trump's masked federal immigration shock troops have shown up, they've inflamed local communities.

Trump and his shock troops, led by Elon Musk, have barreled through the federal bureaucracy — abruptly freezing billions in already-allocated spending, urging thousands of civil servants to quit, and threatening to “delete” entire agencies.

It helps radicalize the already converted who form the shock troops of the Trump brigade.

They will in turn become his personal shock troops.