No More "Militant"; It's "Terrorfighter"

I have been waging a campaign against the use of the term "militant" by the media (see numerous entries here at this blog).

I think I have found an alternative, based on this section of memoir I found here:

Dave’s graduation from the Basic School at Quantico (which the grandmother referred to silently as Guantánamo) took place this spring...In a filled auditorium, a colonel welcomed them. He referred to himself as a teacher and the trainees as students. Quantico was a “campus.” The course was divided into segments: leadership; academics; military skills. The men were being trained not to be soldiers or marines but “warfighters.”

So, does "terrorfighter" work?