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Wiktionary

  1. active dutynoun

    A state in which person in the military performs military duties on a full-time basis, as opposed to reserve, where one only occasionally performs military duties.

Wikipedia

  1. Active duty

    Active duty, in contrast to reserve duty, is a full-time occupation as part of a military force. In the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, the equivalent term is active service.

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  1. Active duty

    Active duty refers to a full-time occupation as part of a military force, as opposed to reserve duty. In Great Britain and the Commonwealth the equivalent term is active service.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. active duty

    Full-time duty in the active military service of the United States. This includes members of the Reserve Component serving on active duty or full-time training duty, but does not include full-time National Guard duty. Also called AD. See also active duty for training; inactive duty training.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of active duty in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of active duty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of active duty in a Sentence

  1. Peter Feaver:

    Protests, for now, have been relatively peaceful compared with earlier in the week, and looting and fires are not as prevalent as they once were last weekend. Mark Esper ordered active-duty Army units to go back home after Mark Esper put them on alert in case they would be necessary to respond to the unrest in the D.C. metro area. But domestic political consequences are playing out just atthe mere mention of invoking the law. When you use military forces to do law enforcement its always politically fraught, theres always a political price to pay and its not the optimal use of the military.

  2. Heath Robinson:

    Heath’s dying wish was to have fellow brother and sisters [ fellow service members ] who come down with toxic exposure illness to be taken care of in ways we take care of them when they are active duty, he would be proud of all us advocates seeing this go forward. Heath did not know how to give up. Before he was placed on hospice, He told me to continue to be the rock and see this through. Before he passed, he told me he was proud of me for never letting him give up. BIDEN'S STATE OF The Union Address : TOP 5 MOMENTS Heath Robinson said that as she was getting ready to attend The Union Address on Tuesday, she had received a call from the company that made Heath Robinson's headstone that Heath Robinson marker was placed on Heath Robinson grave. Danielle Robinson, seen in this photo with President Biden's sister, Valerie Biden Owens, was invited to a pre-address reception at the White House. ( Susan Zeier).

  3. Seth Moulton:

    DoD needs to do this, active-duty service members don’t have a way to report mental health issues outside the chain of command because DoD just hasn’t gotten out of their own bureaucratic way to implement this act. It just requires the Secretary of Defense and his department to do their job.

  4. Jonathan Hoffman:

    South Carolina feels like every other voter in South Carolina is either active duty military, a reservist, a retiree or related to one of the three. Because of these numbers, national security and veterans issues are household issues for SC voters.

  5. President Barack Obama:

    He is a close friend, and I admire and respect his devotion to our country and answering the call to active duty service.


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