What is the opposite of Active Duty?

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What is the opposite of Active Duty?

Answer 1

Active Duty status in the U.S. Armed Forces means that you are in an active-full-time status. You may be in the Armed Forces and be Active Reserve - this is when you are Active for certain periods of time for drilling. You can be Inactive Reserve - this means you have no obligated Active Duty unless your unit is mobilized; or called to Active Duty status.
There are variations of Duty Status among the different branches. There is the Navy/Marine Corps Ready Reserve, Army National Guard, Air National Guard. There are also State National Guard that may be attached to a particular branch or not. These are designated by home state being first in the title; Massachusetts National Guard, Indiana National Guard, Oregon Air National Guard etc...
The United States National Guard is a Reserve Forces component of the United States Army or Air Force. There are also State Forces known as; State Guards, State Military Reserves or State Militias. They operate under the sole authority of a state government, but are regulated by the National Guard Bureau of the U.S. Army.
ANY of these units can be mobilized and put on Active Duty Status. When they are drilling or inactive, this would be the opposite of being mobilized and Active.
There is also the United States Coast Guard. Once under the authority of the Department of Transportation, they are now part of Homeland Security. They too have both Active and Inactive/Reserve components.

Answer 2

Opposite Of Active

Answer 3

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What is the opposite of Active Duty?
What is the opposite of Active Duty?

Answer 4

Forget what that guy said. He clearly doesn't know much about the Army. National or Active duty. You're still a soldier. You get the same amount of respectfrom me. Pro's of national guard; You're a part time Soldier. Good on the CV./ You can pursue family life to the way you want. Active - A lot of combat. But you'll meet a lot of good friends!

Answer 5

wow, lots of misinformed posters on here.... Ask yourself, how can a reserve or national guard be the 'opposite' under Total Force concept? You have to break this question down into logic...Active Duty = commitment / full time, so the opposite would be non commited / most of the time. I would guess that would be a draft dodger (assuming there was a draft) or a person completely against the core values of the military ...perhaps a conciencous objector?

Answer 6

Inactive duty, which includes:
National Guard
Reserves

When signing up for active duty, you should also agree to a few years of inactive duty. The military can then call you back into the military later, but there's a certain amount of time in which this can be done. Also you can serve out your inactive duty in the reserves or guard.

For example: if you enlist for four years in the military, you might agree tot two years inactive duty. So if after the four years is up you get out of the military and WWIII breaks out, the military can call you back for two more years.

Answer 7

Reserve Duty....

Answer 8

Non-active duty?

Answer 9

Reserve duty (Reserves, National Guard, Retired Reserve, Individual Ready Reserve, etc...)

Answer 10

Reserve