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tour of duty

NOUN
  1. a period of time spent in military service

How To Use tour of duty In A Sentence

  • The Problem with having an efficient killing machine such as the Marines is what to do with them when the tour of duty is over, or they go gome for some other reason. Think Progress » Limbaugh: Liberals Are ‘Ecstatic’ About Haditha, Planning ‘Gang Rape’ of War Supporters
  • The soldiers were returning from a six-month tour of duty in Northern Ireland.
  • IDA assigns sailors in the US navy to new jobs when they finish a tour of duty and has to juggle naval policies, job requirements, changing costs and sailors' needs.
  • The soldiers all do a six-month tour of duty in Northern Ireland.
  • The Black Watch are on their second tour of duty in Iraq.
  • My first dozen stops were like a tour of duty in local church ministry. Christianity Today
  • His current tour of duty ends next year and he will decide his future in the autumn. The Sun
  • After stowing the shotgun in the self-locking rack on the dashboard, I settled in for what I hoped would be a mistake free night for my first tour of duty. April 5th, 2005
  • The Pentagon is extending their tour of duty, saying it's just part of the high cost of war.
  • During a recent three-year tour of duty as a newspaper correspondent in the Middle East I found abundant cause for both.
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