Sentence examples for an enlistment from inspiring English sources

Many of the officers of the 22nd, and some of the enlisted men, had just completed an enlistment with early war regiments (the so-called "ninety day regiments"), including the 5th Massachusetts and the 6th Massachusetts.

(A reservation — or an enlistment — is required to visit).

"It will help me get to college and help my future," says a 17-year-old girl after an enlistment interview in Farmington.

The Army, struggling to meet its recruiting goals, granted him an enlistment waiver for the crime and soon swore him in.

At an enlistment center in the Aurora Mall in the Denver suburbs, Jason Stuart, 24, was one of the few young people to respond to recent events by trying to join the Army.

During the Revolutionary War it was an enlistment center; in the Civil War it hosted a Union camp; and in 1918 to 1961 it was a near neighbor of Mitchel Field, an Army Air Force base.

During his second deployment, in 2005, Arroyo received a stop-loss order -an invorder -anenlinvoluntaryenlistmentat kept him in Iraq until 2006.

The purchase of commissions by officers was abolished, and recruits were now taken on for a short enlistment in a specified regiment or corps rather than the (unpopular) system of twenty-one-year general service enlistments.

This is the highest total in the last dozen years or more, said Bob McDonough, the state's administrator of family and adult services, and reflects both a strong enlistment effort and an upward creep in unemployment.

I was "released from the custody of the Army as an erroneous enlistment," and I can't come home yet.

Wade Farrar was the lead singer of the band, but his commitment to Southern Illinois University and an attempted enlistment in the United States Army meant he was only able to dedicate a small amount of time to the group.