Definition

Noun: 1. Non-combat labor assigned to soldiers: Work of a routine, manual, or maintenance nature performed by military personnel as part of their duties, distinct from combat or tactical training. This often includes tasks like cleaning, kitchen work, digging, or general upkeep of facilities and grounds.

Usage

• General Use: The term is used to describe mandatory work details within a military context.
• Common Constructions: Typically used with prepositions like "on" (to be put on fatigue duty) or "assigned to" (assigned to fatigue duty). It can be used in both singular ("fatigue duty") and plural ("fatigues") forms when referring to specific instances or tasks.

Examples

• The new recruits were assigned fatigue duty scrubbing the barracks floors.
• After the march, the platoon was put on fatigue duty for the remainder of the day.
• Kitchen fatigue is often considered one of the least popular duties.

Advanced Usage

• "to pull fatigue": An informal phrase meaning to be assigned to such duties.
  • The private had to pull fatigue every weekend for a month as a disciplinary measure.

Variants and Related Words

• Fatigue (noun): In a military context, this is often used as a shortened, informal form of "fatigue duty."
  • He's on fatigue today.
• Fatigue party (noun): A group of soldiers assigned to a specific fatigue duty task.
  • A fatigue party was formed to clear the debris.

Synonyms

• Detail (noun, military context): A specific task or duty to which personnel are assigned.
• Work detail (noun): A group assigned to a particular job, often of a manual nature.
• Chore (noun): A routine or tedious task (more general, non-military).

Related Phrases

• Kitchen police (KP): A specific type of fatigue duty involving work in the kitchen, such as washing dishes or peeling vegetables.
  • His punishment was a week of KP.

Noun

1. 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