Sentence examples for active duty before from inspiring English sources

The plan is retroactive for volunteers who have completed five years of active duty before this year.

He passed the 2002 entrance exam, but was called to active duty before he could reach the academy.

She joined the Air Force soon after earning a nursing degree and served about eight years on active duty before joining the Reserves in 1995.

After the need for young artillery officers became urgent, Segerstrom said, he was called to active duty before finishing his undergraduate economics degree and was deployed to Europe in late 1944.

Bronner told me his son joined in late December for roughly a year of training and six months of active duty before he returns to the United States for college.

The Army revised its interpretation of United States Department of Defense policy regarding soldiers playing professional sports, requiring cadets to complete two years of active duty before applying for a release.

On Veterans Day, it's worth reflecting on the fact that the U.S. has been continuously at war for the longest period in its history, while also relying on the smallest active duty Army since before World War II.

Flynn would need a congressional waiver to bypass a law that requires any defense secretary to be seven years out of active duty service before taking command of the Pentagon.

He was placed on active duty just before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States' entry into World War II.

Although our data do not necessarily demonstrate the protective effect of typhoid vaccine, the current military policy of vaccinating all active duty servicemen before deployment to areas endemic of S. Typhi likely lowers the incidence of S. Typhi amongst this population, given the high efficacy of existing typhoid vaccines.

Gen. Paul Octave Hébert, the state military commander, though a West Point graduate, had logged just five years of active duty military experience before becoming a rich sugar planter and governor of his native Louisiana – only to rejoin the military after secession.