personnel

personnel
    n 1: group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is
         necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn:
         {force}, {personnel}]
    2: the department responsible for hiring and training and
       placing employees and for setting policies for personnel
       management [syn: {personnel department}, {personnel office},
       {personnel}, {staff office}]
    

Personnel \Per`son`nel"\, n. [F. See {Personal}.]
   The body of persons employed in some public service, as the
   army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from {materiel}.
   [1913 Webster] person-to-person
    

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "personnel":
      agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, backup, change, changeling,
      comparison, copy, counterfeit, crew, deputy, double, dummy,
      employees, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake,
      fighting force, fill-in, firepower, force, forces, gang, ghost,
      ghostwriter, hands, help, hired help, imitation, locum tenens,
      makeshift, men, metaphor, metonymy, next best thing, phony,
      pinch hitter, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves,
      retinue, ringer, second string, secondary, servantry, sign, spares,
      staff, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution,
      succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche,
      the big battalions, the help, third string, token, troops,
      understudy, units, utility player, vicar, vice-president,
      vice-regent, work force