WordNet
n. a force that is a branch of the armed forces [syn: military service, service]
Usage examples of "armed service".
These were the Border Guards, battalion-sized formations once part of the KGB, now a semi-independent armed service under the command of the Russian president.
He remembered his armed service forty years before: a frightened teenager with a helmet that nearly covered his eyes.
An assortment of people in typical Kronian tunics, a few jackets and skirts, and more Armed Service uniforms came next—.
Pimmy could replace any man in any armed service--from a KP to a whole general staff, depending on what tapes he had.
IN the galaxy of the hundred and first century you were a member of a multi-system conglomerate, a unit of a union, a world-government employee - sometimes a member of an armed service - in which happy event your econorg, union, government or service stood in loco parentis and would look out for you and protect you.