fatigue duty
Non-combat military chores
Fatigue duty is military work that isn't combat or drill—cleaning barracks, digging ditches, hauling supplies, kitchen duty.
The term reflects how such tasks wear soldiers down through tedium rather than danger.
Often assigned as punishment or simply as the unglamorous labor that keeps an army functioning: He spent the week on fatigue duty peeling potatoes.
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- work detailAssigned labor crew
- kitchen patrolMilitary food-service work
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- grunt workTedious, unskilled labor
work · mess tent · non-combatant · field kitchen · peeling potatoes · service · task · chore · logistical support · armed forces · bivouac · military · army · manual labor · barracks · night watch · labor · field maneuvers
fatigue dutycombat duty
Military service in warfare
combat operations · active combat · battle stations · combat training · field operations
fatigue dutyliberty
Absence of unjust constraint
leave · honor guard · R&R · shore leave · furlough
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