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Antonyms for active dutyac·tive du·ty

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  1. active dutynoun

    Antonyms:
    reserve

  2. active dutynoun

    Sandie, the naval officer, left work because she had been called to active duty.

    Antonyms:
    reserve

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  1. Tara Ruby:

    I think it's great the Army is supporting active duty mothers, sometimes, you hit a point in your military career where you have to choose between being a soldier and a mother, and a photo like this helps mothers so they don't have to choose.

  2. Defense Secretary Mark Esper:

    Obviously it's... a highly charged environment so I'm going to not weigh in on that other than to say that Colonel Colonel Alexander Vindman is still an active duty member of the military and continuing to perform his job on a daily basis.

  3. Seth Moulton:

    DoD needs to do this, active-duty service members don’t have a way to report mental health issues outside the chain of command because DoD just hasn’t gotten out of their own bureaucratic way to implement this act. It just requires the Secretary of Defense and his department to do their job.

  4. Mark Esper:

    The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now.

  5. Kurt Volker:

    There shouldn't be any ambiguity about that, you have military forces that are led by active duty Russian military personnel. Russian officers are embedded through the chain of command down to the company level. Russia pays for contract soldiers to then fill out the whole military force and this goes to a Russian firm -- that then hires the soldiers and provides them to the Donbas. The training, the equipment, the troop rotations, the supplies -- all of this comes directly from Russia.

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