tours of duty
Soldiers' service periods
Tours of duty are periods of service in a particular location or assignment, especially military deployments: He completed three tours of duty in Afghanistan.
The phrase implies a defined term with a beginning and end, after which the person rotates out.
It extends to other demanding assignments: Her tour of duty as CEO lasted five years.
- missionPurpose-driven task
- stintFixed work period
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
combat zone · veterans · service · conscription · enlistment · operations · sacrifice · peacekeeping missions · combat experience · band of brothers · armed forces · period · military · war diaries · troop morale · overseas deployment · rotation · valor
- War on TerrorOsama bin Laden, IED, Guantanamo, regime change, troop surge
- military servicemilitary service, deployment, enlistment, national service, conscription
tours of dutycivilian life
Non-military everyday existence
discharge · retirement · honorable discharge · demobilization · mustering out
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