overseas service
Duty abroad assignment
Overseas service is military duty performed in a foreign country, particularly during wartime.
The term appears in veterans' benefits, military records, and war memorials: His overseas service included two tours in the Pacific.
More broadly, it can refer to any professional assignment abroad, especially government or diplomatic work: She completed three years of overseas service with the State Department.
- tour of dutyAssigned period of service
- disaster reliefAssistance following catastrophic events
- peacekeepingPreventing or ending conflict
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
study abroad programs · refugee assistance · medical missions · cultural diplomacy · foreign posting · embassy staff · advocacy campaigns · volunteer coordination · peace corps · logistics support · food distribution · care packages · aid workers · treaty negotiations · international law enforcement · naval patrols · military families · home front
- Canadian WartimeCanadian Army, D-Day, enlistment, home front, homefront
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, eastern front, Western Front, soldiers
- Irish Militaryartillery corps, engineer corps, medical corps, officer corps, military police
- War Veteransveterans, disabled veterans, wounded soldiers, wounded warriors, war wounded
overseas servicedomestic service
Paid household labor
home service · domestic employment · local service · domestic work · home-based employment
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