active duty

"We're making a huge effort to watch unnecessary spending and save money where we can so we have a bigger nest egg built up because if the government shuts down again in January there's no guarantee that active duty military is going to get paid."

You flew helicopters for 10 years in active duty, then went to law school, then were in the U.S. attorney’s office, now you’re in Congress.

A large hospital was recently added, and there are various buildings for the base’s more than 42,000 active duty personnel.

Venezuela's defence minister, Vladimir Padrino, said the attacks and the US naval deployment amounted to a "non-declared war" by the US against Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro swiftly called the militia into active duty.

She’s former active duty judge advocate in the U.S.