People who enlist in the Guard generally serve one weekend a month, and a few weeks a year, though they can be called to much longer active-duty stints during a crisis.
Daniel Bandy served in the US Army for a total of 14 years, through a combination of active and reserve stints in Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
In 1966, after a stint on active duty in the Coast Guard, George joined The New Yorker.
John Dolan, 23, recently completed a four-year stint on active duty in the Navy, some of it off Iraq.
Thereafter, he styled himself Colonel Otis up until the turn of the century, when, at age sixty-one, he persuaded President McKinley to grant him a short stint on active duty as a brigadier in the Philippines during the waning days of the Spanish-American War.
Chito Peppler, a Pentagon spokesman, claiming that, as a database manager, he served only a "brief stint on active duty several years ago".
She returned to Italy in 1901 and spent the rest of her career in reserve or as an ammunition ship, apart from a brief stint in active service in 1904.
In addition to being a scholar, Areeda was politically active, serving a few stints in the White House for the Eisenhower, Ford and Nixon administrations.
Reorganized and redesignated numerous times, the 174th Infantry Brigade has been a reserve unit of the United States Army for most of its existence, seeing only short stints in the Active Duty forces and a combat role.
Following her husband's death, Stahl became an active federation member, leading to her two-year stint as president of the federation's metropolitan region.
After La Russa retired as manager of the Cardinals in 2011, Smith became active in the organization again, starting with his stint as a special instructor for the team's 2012 spring training camp.
