How to pronounce “old soldier” in English

older than sort of I'm thinking of maybe a 27 29 year old Soldier say a

In one case, a bullet hit a 24-year-old soldier, passing through his kidney and liver.

And on the other side, you see a 19 year-old soldier-- one of the most famous pictures of the Berlin Wall, which was taken a week after the initial cut-off when

"One of these papers which are very pleasant light reading is General Middleton's paper in the United Service Magazine, entitled, 'An Old Soldier's Pets.'"

I tried to find the actual paper, "An Old Soldier's Pets," and I could not find it on

Guys, you gotta read "An Old Soldier's Pets" because this guy's menagerie is amazing.