AaronJ wrote:
If as you say the "service" is that performed by the Government for the
citizens, then how does your sentence make any real sense?

Don't you know what it means when someone puts a
common word in parentheses?

Once again, from Webster's: "service - an administrative
division, as of a government". There is no service
required by the members of the Amateur Radio Service.
The "service" is a benefit that the federal government
performs for those citizens who meet the qualifications,
not vice versa.
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