Fatigue Party (Noun)
Meaning
A group of soldiers on fatigue duty.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The fatigue party was tasked with cleaning up the latrines and filling sandbags to reinforce the trenches.
- After a long night on sentry duty, the soldiers were detailed to the fatigue party to dig a new drainage ditch.
- The platoon's fatigue party was responsible for hauling ammunition and rations to the front lines.
- Sgt. Johnson assigned the new recruits to the fatigue party to give them a taste of the mundane work that often accompanied military life.
- During the lull in fighting, the fatigue party was dispatched to gather firewood and fetch water from the nearby stream.