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n. A state in which person in the military performs military duties on a full-time basis, as opposed to reserve, where one only occasionally performs military duties.
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Active duty refers to a full-time occupation as part of a military force, as opposed to reserve duty. In Great Britain and the Commonwealth the equivalent term is active service.
ActiveDuty.com is the umbrella name for the American North Carolina-based homosexual pornographic film studios owned by Dennis Ashe that specializes in the production of pornographic movies featuring military men that are gay, straight and bi, engaging in solo or gay sexual action. Dink Flamingo is the pseudonym of the producer- director of the films.
Active Duty is the eighth release by MC Hammer on November 20, 2001. Overall, it marks his seventh studio album and ninth record, including the unreleased Too Tight (1996).
Following the September 11 attacks, Hammer released this album on his own World Hit Music Group label (the music enterprise under his Hammertime Holdings Inc. umbrella) to pay homage to the ones lost in the terrorist attacks. in which the album followed that theme. One of the album's singles, " Pop Yo Collar", became a popular " buzzword/ catchphrase" during this period.
The album, like its predecessor, would not sell as many copies as previous projects. Hammer did however promote it on such shows as The View and produced a music video for both singles.
A patriotic album, originally planned to be titled The Autobiography Of M.C. Hammer, portions of the proceeds were donated to 9/11 charities. Hammer shot the video for the anthem "No Stoppin' Us (USA)" in Washington, D.C. on October 3, 2001, with several members of the United States Congress, who sang in the song and danced in the video. Present members of the United States House of Representatives included J.C. Watts, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Thomas M. Davis, Earl Hilliard, Alcee Hastings, Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.), Rep. Corinne Brown (D-Fla.) and Jesse Jackson Jr..
The "Pop Yo Collar" music video demonstrated "The Phat Daddy Pop", "In Pop Nito", "River Pop", "Deliver The Pop" and "Pop'n It Up" dance moves, among others.
Usage examples of "active duty".
So, he was a double-ace, and the Air Force hadn't had many of those on active duty in a very long time.
Corva said, 'She wants you to know that she's being released from active duty at midnight tonight.
When Lawrence accessed his record he found the only active duty the captain had seen was counterinsurgency missions in East Africa.
The odds were a thousand to one against being called to active duty, but I had still resisted.
The tanks were, in fact, in surprisingly good shape, better than the ones they'd used on active duty.
Toland, USNR-R, was informed that he had been placed on extended active duty by order of the Secretary of Defense.
And because she had, she'd gone back on active duty early, which was why her squadron had been sent to Adler, which was how the Peeps had captured her .
If for no other reason, because I've spoken to BuMed and I know Admiral Mannock wouldn't even let you go back on full active duty status in our uniform for another three or four months.
On his return to active duty, he'd spent two years working with the RMN to more fully integrate the Allies' FTL communications capability into squadron-level tactical and operational capabilities, and his present assignment was almost certainly the last stop on his career track before he received his own first starship command.
The Commander is only twenty-four Standard Years of age, on her first posting to an active duty brigade, and the exhaustion in her voice is terrible to hear.
None of them actually served aboard her, because the tradition also required that they be personnel on the active duty list, and her captain, by long tradition, was an admiral.