military reserves
Part-time soldier corps
Military reserves are trained military personnel who are not on active duty but can be called up when needed.
Reservists typically maintain civilian careers while training part-time—often one weekend per month plus longer annual exercises.
Nations maintain reserves to expand military capacity during emergencies without keeping a larger standing force: He served twenty years in the reserves.
Also called simply the reserves.
- citizen soldiersArmed civilians in wartime
- part-time soldiersNon-professional military personnel
- National GuardState-level reserve military
- reserve unitsNon-active military personnel
- MinutemenColonial instant-ready militia
logistics support · ready reserve · strategic reserve · weekend warriors · disaster response · militia · reserve forces · drill weekends · peacekeeping missions · chain of command · emergency preparedness · Army Reserve · combat readiness · home defense · drill · peacetime · tactical exercises · supplemental
- reservesreserve, fuel reserve, army reserve, naval reserve, gold reserve
- Canadian MilitaryCanadian Armed Forces, Canadian Army, DND, service branches, special forces
- Militiascitizen militia, colonial militia, colonial militias, territorial defense, citizen army
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- militiamilitia, citizen soldier, colonial militia, citizen soldiers, state militias
military reservesactive duty
Current military employment status
standing army · active service · career soldiers · frontline troops · regular army
military reservescivilian population
civilians · non-combatants · civilian workforce · noncombatants · civil society