Sentence examples for Term of enlistment from inspiring English sources

Pierson declined to re-enlist after his three-year term of enlistment expired in 1864.

Last year about three-quarters of Army volunteers who completed their first term of enlistment, and nearly as many marines, chose not to re-enlist.

The regiment soon disbanded after its three-month term of enlistment expired.

(1), inserted provisions respecting agreement for term of enlistment, substituted provisions relating to computation under par.

an enlistment of the member terminated within three months before the end of the term of enlistment is counted as active service for the full term.

I finished up my term of enlistment at a naval base in Jacksonville, Florida, and then I was discharged in time for me to go to Harvard as a freshman," he told me.

Mutinies were sparked by misunderstandings over terms of enlistment, poor food and clothing, gross arrears of pay, and the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar.

Thousands of reservists and National Guard members are no longer serving voluntarily: they have been kept in the military past their agreed terms of enlistment by "stop loss" orders.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, speaking in Kuwait yesterday to troops deploying into Iraq, got an earful of complaints about poor combat equipment, personnel policies that keep soldiers in the Army beyond their terms of enlistment, and other issues that reflect the strains the war in the Middle East is placing on the U.S. military.

After continuing their cruise for a few weeks, both Insurgent and Constellation were forced to return to Norfolk, Virginia, by the end of March due to the expiration of the terms of enlistment of their crews.

With the terms of enlistment soon to expire for the sailors aboard her, she made preparations to return to the United States, and was relieved of duty by Constellation on 23 July.