ABOOBAKER ISMAIL
Soldiers in the afternoon, are generally to be taken to be off duty policemen, however they can be called on duty at any point in time, etc.  and therefore they become active immediately.  As to the other part, dealing with people that were no longer service as such or weren't on call-up, but if they then had returned to their normal civilian occupations, they were then seen as being not active at that time.