MHS manages the TRICARE health care program for more than nine million active duty, National Guard and Reserve, retired service members, their families and beneficiaries.
True story: While on active duty as a National Guardsman delivering U.S. mail during a postal strike, he secretly gathered information for a Times story.
Tom is now on active duty abroad.
to be on active service; to be on active duty
I served two more years on active duty, with one year overseas.
Most of the officers on active duty working in scientific research, engineering, education, literature and arts and public health were reclassified as working in civil positions within the army.
We should run schools well and enrol more students, even if it means cutting down the number of troops on active duty and at desk jobs.