Sentence examples for enlistment about from inspiring English sources

On the basis of the three-year standard of enlistment, about 1,556,000 soldiers served in the Federal armies, and about 800,000 men probably served in the Confederate forces, though spotty records make it impossible to know for sure.

She is not sure what she'll do when her current enlistment ends in about 18 months.

When President Roosevelt lifted the restriction, nisei men flooded the enlistment offices; about eighteen thousand joined.

Enlistments are about twice what they were last year.

But the English version of the bilingual site is there for a practical purpose, not just nostalgia: to answer the questions of would-be recruits (ages 17 to 40) about enlistment procedures.

Yet while the armed services report a spike in the number of people inquiring about enlistment and a near-doubling in the visitors to the Army's online recruiter chat room, they also report no rise in actual enlistments since the attack.

He was in high school at the time of his enlistment and lied about his age.

Some of the records included in this database provide information about enlistment, duty and assignments, training and performance, awards and medals, disciplinary actions, and discharge.

I should have expected it: when I started telling my friends back in Maine about my enlistment process, I encountered the disconnect between my world and the real world of war and the uniformed 1 percent more starkly than ever before.

A Los Angeles Times report this month about the enlistment bonus repayment demands to California Guard soldiers and veterans, including some who were wounded in battle, sparked a public furor about what many viewed as an injustice.

Mad Men dealt with this brilliantly a few episodes before the last, when Glen Bishop, angered by Sally's knee jerk reaction to his enlistment, hotly retorted, "What about a bunch of Negro kids dying while we just sit at home getting stoned?" A few of my own high school friends signed up for exactly that reason.