What is "tour of duty"

n. (context military English) A period of time spent on a specific assignment, especially on an overseas mission

n. a period of time spent in military service [syn: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, duty tour, tour]

For military soldiers, a tour of duty is usually a period of time spent in combat or in a hostile environment. For example, in World War II a tour of duty for a Royal Air Force (RAF) bomber crewman was 30 flights. That number could take up to 12 months.

In navies, a tour of duty is a period of time spent performing operational duties at sea, including combat, performing patrol or fleet duties, or assigned to service in a foreign country; a tour of duty is part of a rotation, where the ship may spend a six-month tour of duty, then spend one month in home port for maintenance, then a period of time on exercises, then return to her tour of duty.

A general tour of duty for soldiers comprises service that can last from half a year to four years. Generally, duties that last longer than two years are eligible to receive medals of merit related to their service. Tours of duty can also be extended involuntarily for service members, such as in September 2006 when the tour of duty was extended for 4,000 US military personnel in Iraq.

Tour of Duty was an American drama television series on CBS. It ran for three seasons, from September 1987 to April 1990, for a total of 58 one-hour episodes. The show was created by Steve Duncan and L. Travis Clark and produced by Zev Braun. The series is currently running weekdays on the digital subchannel GetTV.

The show follows an American infantry platoon on a tour of duty during the Vietnam War. It was the first television series to regularly show Americans in combat in Vietnam and was one of several similarly themed series to be produced in the wake of the acclaimed Oliver Stone film Platoon. The series won an Emmy Award in 1988 for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series, and it was nominated again in 1989 and 1990.

Tour of Duty is a Judge Dredd story published in British comic 2000 AD (2009–2010). It lasted for 46 episodes, 39 of which were written by John Wagner. It has the second greatest number of episodes and pages (285) of any Judge Dredd story. It is part of a longer storyline about mutants.

This is a list of episodes from the first season of Tour of Duty with episode summaries.

This is a list of episodes from the Second Season of Tour of Duty with episode summaries. See also Tour of Duty episodes from Season 1 and Season 3

This is a list of episodes from the Third and Final Season of Tour of Duty with episode summaries. See also Tour of Duty episodes from Season 1 and Season 2

In the military, a tour of duty is a period of operational time.

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