Service

In a military sense is the art of serving the state in war. All studies, acts, and efforts of the profe ion of arms have this end in view. To belong to the army and to belong to the land service, are the same thing. In a more restricted sense, service is the performance of military duty. In its general sense, service embraces all details of the military art. But in its restricted sense, actual service is the exercise of military functions. To see service , is a common expre ion denoting actual collision with an enemy. To retire from service , to quit the army, or resign.