A question regarding the obligations of prayer and fasting for someone serving in the military.
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Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Khamenei (may God protect him):
What you mentioned is not sufficient to complete your prayer and the validity of your fasting while traveling. However, if you are someone who travels for military service daily, except for official holidays, for at least three months, or at least once every ten days for a year, you should pray in full and fast as well, unless you stay in one place for ten days or more. If you do not, then you should shorten your prayer while traveling and complete it afterward. Otherwise, your ruling is like that of other travelers: you should shorten your prayer and not fast unless you intend to stay for ten days in one place.
Source: Special Inquiry.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sistani (may God protect him):
Frequent travel applies to someone who travels repeatedly as part of their profession or for another purpose, if they travel at least ten times in a month, or if they are traveling for at least ten days of the month, even if it involves two or three trips, with the intention to continue this pattern for six months, for example, within one year, or for three months over two years or more.
If someone travels four times a month or is traveling for seven days or less, their ruling is to shorten their prayer.
If someone travels eight times in a month or is traveling for eight or nine days, it is recommended to combine both shortening and completing the prayer.
Source: Minhaj al-Salihin, Vol. 1, Issue 915.
May you be successful in all good.