Answer question 25 if this person is female and 15-50 years old. Otherwise, skip to question 26a.

P27. Active duty means full-time service as a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or as a commissioned officer of the Public Health Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or its predecessors, the Coast and Geodetic Survey or Environmental Science Service Administration. Active duty does not include active duty for training.

Active duty also applies to a person who is a cadet attending one of the five United States Military Service Academies.

For a person with service in the military Reserves or National Guard, mark the ''Only on active duty for training in the Reserves or National Guard" box if the person has never been called up for active duty, mobilized, or deployed. For a person whose only service was as a civilian employee or civilian volunteer for the Red Cross, USO, Public Health Service, or War or Defense Department, mark the "never served in the military" box.

For merchant marine service, count only the service during World War II as active duty and no other period of service.