duty stations
Where soldiers serve
Duty stations are the locations where military personnel or government employees are assigned to work.
The term emphasizes that placement is not chosen but ordered: His duty station was a base in South Korea.
Service members may rotate through several duty stations over a career, each assignment lasting months or years.
- remote locationIsolated, distant area
- administrative centerSeat of government operations
- consulateForeign diplomatic office
- field officeRemote organizational workplace
- headquartersCentral command location
base · training center · outpost · military base · forward operating base · embassy · command post · camp · government facility · support unit · diplomatic mission · observation post · listening post · regional hub · urban setting · security checkpoint · overseas assignment · foreign service
- Navy Careersnaval careers, navy personnel, enlisted ranks, naval ranks, officer corps
- military personnelsoldiers, soldier, midshipmen, officers, troops
- military trainingfield manual, drill instructor, training manual, combat drills, drilling
- National GuardNational Guard, guardsmen, reservist, Air National Guard, drill weekend
- personnel managementhiring, firing, promotions, transfers, staffing
- naval enlistedseaman, petty officer, chief petty officer, rating, rate
duty stationsleave
Sanctioned time away
furlough · AWOL · desertion · liberty · shore leave
duty stationsseparation
State of being apart
demobilization · temporary duty · transit · deployment · reassignment
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