Period of military service

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-001428",
  "term": "Period of military service",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "These periods represent officially recognized time divisions relating to wars or to legally-relevant peacetime eras. The data pertain to active-duty military service. In most tabulations of these data, people serving in combinations of wartime and peacetime periods are classified in their most recent wartime period.",
  "see_also": [
    "Veteran Status"
  ],
  "references": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/period-of-military-service/"
}