Crossword clues for national service
national service
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. Compulsory service in the armed forces; conscription
WordNet
n. (United Kingdom) compulsory service in the military during peacetime
Wikipedia
National service is a common name for a system of either compulsory or voluntary government service (usually military service, also known as conscription). The term became standard British usage after the National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 and has been applied to such voluntary enrollments as the US Peace Corps. Many young people spent one or more years in such programmes. Compulsory military service typically requires all male citizens to enroll for one or two years, usually at age 18 (later for university-level students), while Voluntary national service requires only 3 months of basic military training. The US equivalent is Selective Service.
Usage examples of "national service".
Can you arrange to have Chessingham's bank account checked, a monitoring watch kept on all incoming and outgoing mail, a check made with local authorities to see whether a driving licence has ever been issued in his name, a check made with the army unit in which he did his National Service to see if he ever drove a vehicle and, finally, a check on all the local money-lenders to see if Chessingham's on their books.
I did my national service with Intelligence in BAOR' so please don't worry about security.
This gave the Ministry of Defense a list to compare against the list of nineteen-year-old physically fit males who had registered for National Service under the Organic Military Statute of 1901 (according to which, without exception, one year's active military service was required of all physically fit males turning twenty years, followed by reserve service until age forty-five).
Vietnam may have performed a great national service by demonstrating for my generation the truth of the general's remark.
Buchanan's appointees who was eager to be set free from the national service, so Mr.
Through the National Service Act, all teenage high school graduates who wish to go to college can pay for it with government service, or contract to pay a percentage of their future earnings.
They had come off an assembly line of Pimpf, Hitler Youth, National Service and Strength-Through-Joy.
She had trained in photointerpretation as part of her National Service, and followed her husband into the Legion when he grew bored with peacetime soldiering on a planet too shrewd and too feared to have many enemies.
By 1971 the boy, with his national service behind him, was able to join his father in the company.
In the army, during his national service, he was so upset when his promotion to corporal failed to materialise that he tried to cut his throat.
In addition, Lieutenant Ellis named you as beneficiary of his National Service Life Insurance, and I have that check with me, and a check representing his final pay and allowances.