combat duty
Frontline military service
Combat duty is military service involving direct engagement with enemy forces or assignment to an active war zone.
Distinguished from support roles or stateside postings, combat duty carries heightened risk and often determines eligibility for certain benefits and honors: He served two tours of combat duty in Afghanistan.
The term appears in military regulations, veterans' claims, and discussions of who has "seen combat."
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- front linesActive battle area
- frontlineCombat's forward position
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
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- military dutiespatrol, kitchen patrol, night watch, standing watch, fireguard
- duty
- military servicemilitary service, deployment, enlistment, national service, conscription
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