"So what are you going to do, in this peacetime army we're about to have?"

A peacetime army seems something of a contradiction in terms.

There are still such things as orders, even in a peacetime army.

"I came into a peacetime Army," said the wife of a company commander.

Even coming from a peacetime army, neither was a stranger to death.

"The peacetime Army is a steady place," his father said.

As the peacetime Army turned to war, there were other emotions being expressed here, too.

Maybe that's why they couldn't keep him content in the peacetime Army.

The war was over and it was a small peacetime army again.

For starters, a peacetime Army could not absorb all the men and women who turn 18, draft age, each year.