military service
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922)
Definitions from Case Law
From 85 U.S. 84 - Stuart v. United States · 1873Most cited · 5 citing opinions
This military service is the same as that spoken of in the first section, to wit, in battle, or service as soldiers under the command of officers of the army.
United States Code
5 U.S.C. § 8331 — in this section (9 versions over time)
"military service" means honorable active service—
(A) in the armed forces;
(B) in the Regular or Reserve Corps 2 of the Public Health Service after June 30, 1960; or
(C) as a commissioned officer of the Environmental Science Services Administration after June 30, 1961;
and includes service as a cadet at the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, or the United States Coast Guard Academy, or as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, but does not include service in the National Guard except when ordered to active duty in the service of the United States or full-time National Guard duty (as such term is defined in section 101(d) of title 10) if such service interrupts creditable civilian service under this subchapter and is followed by reemployment in accordance with chapter 43 of title 38 that occurs on or after August 1, 1990;
5 U.S.C. § 8401 — in this section (9 versions over time)
the term "military service" means honorable active service—
(A) in the armed forces;
(B) in the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service after June 30, 1960; or
(C) in the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or a predecessor entity in function, after June 30, 1961;
and includes service as a cadet at the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, or the United States Coast Guard Academy, or as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, but does not include service in the National Guard except when ordered to active duty in the service of the United States or full-time National Guard duty (as such term is defined in section 101(d) of title 10) if such service interrupts creditable civilian service under this subchapter and is followed by reemployment in accordance with chapter 43 of title 38 that occurs on or after August 1, 1990;
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A statute releasing an attachment issued against any property of any "soldiers in the actual military service of the United States" does not include a person in the naval service. One may be in the naval service, or connected with the navy without being a soldier, as when he belongs to merchantmen or the merchant's service. A soldier in the military service, on the contrary, means one belonging to the soldiery, militia or army of a nation or state. 18 Iowa 513.