active duty
noun
: employment as a full-time member of the military
After two years of active duty she entered the reserves.
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She was commissioned as an active duty aviation officer months later.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
The Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, U.S. officials said Friday.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
About 1,600 Marines and Army soldiers have arrived near the Mexican border in California and Texas in the past week, joining 2,500 Army reservists called to active duty who were already there.
—Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Especially since active duty troops are forbidden from doing law enforcement under the Posse Comitatus Act.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
The Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active duty troops to bolster President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on immigration, U.S. officials said Friday.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
About 1,600 Marines and Army soldiers have arrived near the Mexican border in California and Texas in the past week, joining 2,500 Army reservists called to active duty who were already there.
—Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Especially since active duty troops are forbidden from doing law enforcement under the Posse Comitatus Act.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Active duty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/active%20duty. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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