Fatigue Duty (Noun)
Meaning
Labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The soldiers were given fatigue duty to maintain overall camp cleanliness and organization.
- The general assigned the unit to fatigue duty for the week to help with disaster cleanup efforts.
- Being on fatigue duty entailed doing chores such as cleaning the hallways and taking out the trash.
- New recruits were often given fatigue duty in the kitchen as part of their soldier training.
- The group of soldiers on fatigue duty were tasked with digging drainage ditches in the flooded area.