Military Service

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Across
  1. 3. a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse.
  2. 4. a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
  3. 6. a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
  4. 8. a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own.
  5. 9. susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable.
  6. 11. an officer in command of a particular portion of an armed force who has been given this title by specific authorization.
  7. 13. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
  8. 14. a large body of persons trained and armed for war.
  9. 15. a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.
  10. 16. an armored cavalry or cavalry unit consisting of two or more platoons and a headquarters group.
Down
  1. 1. a debate, controversy, or difference of opinion
  2. 2. a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection.
  3. 3. one of two parts that fit, complete, or complement one another.
  4. 5. adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
  5. 7. compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service
  6. 10. the line that separates one country, state, province, etc., from another; frontier line
  7. 12. authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory