Active Duty

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

Read more about Active Duty:  India, Israel, Pakistan, United States

Famous quotes containing the words active and/or duty:

    “True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity, whensoever possible, with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)