reserve duty
Part-time soldier service
Reserve duty is military service performed by members of a reserve force—soldiers who maintain civilian lives but train periodically and can be called to active duty when needed.
In countries like Israel, reserve duty is a regular obligation requiring weeks of annual service: He's away on reserve duty this month.
The term often appears in discussions of military mobilization during conflicts.
- National GuardState-level reserve military
- citizen soldierCivilian who serves militarily
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
- military obligationRequired service in forces
- call-upOrder to serve
obligation · drills · annual training · activation · reservist · weekend warrior · drill weekend · deployment · boots on the ground · mission · peacekeeping operations · mandatory service · pension rights · draft · reintegration · exercises · military law · home front
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- duty
- military dutiespatrol, kitchen patrol, night watch, standing watch, fireguard
- Military Reservesreservist, reservists, part-time soldiers, National Guard, Air National Guard
- military servicemilitary service, deployment, enlistment, national service, conscription
- National GuardNational Guard, guardsmen, reservist, Air National Guard, drill weekend
reserve dutyactive duty
Current military employment status
active service · mobilization · conscription · wartime service · national service
reserve dutycivilian life
Non-military everyday existence
demobilization · discharge · military retirement · honorable discharge · veteran status