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active duty

noun as in full-time military service

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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.

From BBC

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

Liu has returned to active duty and is assigned to the Temple Station, where he worked when the shooting occurred, according to Nicole Nishida, a sheriff’s department spokeswoman.

Excited by the sight of 2,000 men in military garb on the streets of an American city he hates, the president doubled the number, and then ordered 700 active duty Marines to join them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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