military service
Serving one's country
Military service is duty performed as a member of a country's armed forces.
It may be voluntary or compulsory (conscription).
The phrase often appears in discussions of veterans' benefits, citizenship requirements, or biographical details: His military service included two tours in Afghanistan.
To see military service is to have served, especially in combat.
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- boot campInitial military instruction program
- draftPreliminary version of text
veterans · army · recruiting · drill · mobilization · veteran benefits · squad · national defense · militia · reserve forces · overseas deployment · GI Bill · officer corps · armed forces · force · uniform · homecoming · support the troops
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- dangerous jobsfirefighting, bomb disposal, crab fishing, offshore drilling, oil rigs
- serviceserve, help, aid, assist, cater
- military serviceactive duty, deployment, tour of duty, combat duty, enlistment
- Modern KoreaSouth Korea, Seoul, North Korea, Korean Wave, Hallyu
- public dutiesjury duty, voting, paying taxes, census, civic participation
military servicecivilian life
Non-military everyday existence
civil service · private life · demobilization · discharge · domestic life
military servicedraft exemption
Release from military conscription
deferment · draft evasion · military exemption · amnesty · desertion
military servicepacifism
Antiwar moral stance
peace activism · nonviolent resistance · humanitarian work · diplomatic service · conscientious objection
service, military, militant, militancy, militarism, serviceman, militarist, militaristic, servicemen