Sentence examples for enlistment as from inspiring English sources

He served out his first enlistment as a Ranger.

Some also viewed enlistment as a means to demonstrate their American values.

Milice was bumped back down the chain of command, and passed the remaining two months of his enlistment as a persona non grata.

Australian rules football was under almost constant siege from jingoists for being a distraction to enlistment as was rugby league, as a recruitment poster from the period suggests.

These include the murder of his family (his sister is raped in their home before being shot) and his enlistment as a child soldier, from which point he is forced to make his own life-or-death decisions.

The Athletics' chances for victory in their feature match against the Atlantics depended heavily on the performance of their star pitcher, James Dickson ("Dick") McBride, who was then in the middle of a 100-day enlistment as a private with Company A of Pennsylvania's 196th Infantry Regiment.

Even with war erupting in Iraq last week, recruiters in the Bronx and elsewhere said they expected to get the same number of enlistments as they would normally.

"Enlistments as a percent of military-age population are low in New York, and if you don't produce soldiers, you don't produce veterans," said David R. Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland.

Army officials say they have been unable to defer as many enlistments as in the past because 4,500 more recruits were needed at midyear to help meet a temporary increase of 30,000 soldiers in the active duty force, which is to grow to 512,000 by 2006.

The time lost to active military mission availability could be counter-balanced through longer enlistments as a requisite for internships and transition preparation being built into a service member's base military career.

While the book Lone Survivor chronicles Marcus Luttrell's 1999 enlistment and training, as well as his 2005 deployment to Afghanistan, Berg decided that the film adaptation would focus mainly on the events of the failed United States Navy SEALs mission Operation Red Wings, as well as the bonding and camaraderie of Luttrell and his fallen teammates.