What is "peacetime"

Usage examples of "peacetime".

First one noncom then another trying his skill, as if they were all bucking to become recruit instructors to the gook draftees that were beginning to come in now from the peacetime draft.

Because of some bloody stupid song, Shufti was wandering off into a war to look for the father of her child, and that was a desperate errand for a girl even in peacetime.

They were taking the long way around, because Mearl understood that taking the capital of the greatest nation in the world required more manpower than his thirty or so militia members, none of whom had actually served in a peacetime army or national guard, much less fought in an actual war.

Finally, Karen advanced the solution that Milt should take one of the extension courses that had come into prominence with the peacetime draft and become an officer.

On the other quarter, Lieutenant-Commander Bill Selkirk in his Ventnor, a tough reservist, a professional sailor in peacetime.

According to Rohwer an increase to around 300 boats could not have been achieved by 1942 within the framework of the accepted peacetime restrictions, even with a trash programme of U-boat construction.

Meanwhile, as though in peacetime, I had become a trained and experienced U-boat commander, and a whole year had passed Later, when there were more new boats but also more losses training time was curtailed and this would have its consequences.

Instead of being honored as they deserved, the dogs of Korea, Vietnam, and of the peacetime military in the years following that war were put to death.

His country waited to be crushed between invaders from east and west: back at Nordhausen the hysteria had risen to epic scale, as the first rockets were about to go out into the field, about to fulfill engineering prophecies old as peacetime.

Jews playacting vacationers at a happy peacetime spa, all add up to a musical comedy in the open air, utterly unreal.

San Francisco Conference served as an important demonstration of the usefulness of peacetime signals intelligence.

LibProgs might point to the Treaty of Valkha and fifty years of peace, but Howard Anderson knew better than most that when something went wrong it usually did so with dispatch, and Battle Fleet was twenty percent understrength for its peacetime obligations.

Forget, for just a moment, that regular soldiers thought of freebooters as little more than land pirates, mostly because during peacetime, and around the fringes of war, they spent more time hunting them down than working with them.

Two hitches in the peacetime army completely unfitted him for war, and he had learned enough method to get out of it.

During peacetime, when Polyxigis was unemployed, he had opened a shop by the Kanea Gate and had bought wine, oil, grapes, lemons and turnips from the peasants.