army reserves
Part-time soldiers collectively
Army reserves are military personnel who train part-time while maintaining civilian careers, available for active duty when needed.
Reservists typically serve one weekend per month plus annual training periods.
Countries call up reserves during wartime, national emergencies, or when active-duty forces need reinforcement: He joined the army reserves after college.
- reservistsPart-time armed forces members
- field exercisesOutdoor tactical training operations
- drillHole-boring device
- boot campInitial military instruction program
- citizen-soldiersArmed civilians, not professionals
weapons training · militia · natural disasters · weekend warriors · part-time soldiers · reserve units · demobilization · peacekeeping missions · minutemen · command hierarchy · sworn oath · officers · emergency protocols · wartime mobilization · deployment orders · medical staff · non-commissioned officers · uniform
- armyinfantry, cavalry, soldiers, artillery, officers
- military forcesallied forces, soldiers, troops, coalition forces, militias
- reservesreserve, fuel reserve, naval reserve, gold reserve, oil reserve
- Canadian WartimeD-Day, enlistment, home front, homefront, Juno Beach
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- militiamilitia, citizen soldier, colonial militia, citizen soldiers, state militias
army reservesactive duty
Current military employment status
regular army · standing army · active service · frontline troops
army reservescivilians
Non-military population
civilian population · conscientious objectors · civilian workforce · pacifists · draft dodgers