WordNet
n. a period of time spent in military service [syn: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, tour]
Usage examples of "duty tour".
I shook my head at the possible complexities of locating lost or strayed Guards and spent the rest of my duty tour waiting for another time- or place-lost child to track.
They could even see the two soldiers there, doubtless approaching the end of their duty tour, standing slackly, their weapons slung over their shoulders, because nobody ever came out here, rarely enough during the day, and never in living memory at night&mdash.
Going back up to Luna Base after leave, or perhaps a duty tour in normal gravity.
They could even see the two soldiers there, doubtless approaching the end of their duty tour, standÂ.
They could even see the two soldiers there, doubtless approaching the end of their duty tour, standing slackly, their weapons slung over their shoulders, because nobody ever came out here, rarely enough during the day, and never in living memory at night -- unless you counted the battalion commander coming back drunk from a command-staff meeting.
Atalanta: the grand old Fleet outpost on Hador-Haelic, where he'd spent much of his second duty tour.