Sentence examples for enlistment papers from inspiring English sources

But then, with pen poised over the dotted line of his enlistment papers, he changed his mind.

He pulled out his box of Army artifacts — enlistment papers, honorable discharge, cap and uniform, dog tags, medals.

With no wife or children, he designated his cousin, John Tonich, as his next of kin, on his 1918 enlistment papers.

The indefinite appearance extended back through the family line: Second World War draft and enlistment papers identified his paternal grandfather as a "negro" with "light" complexion, and his father as white.

But some Muslim veterans say there are at least twice that many because many Muslim recruits do not elect to put their religion on their enlistment papers out of concern that they will be ostracized.

Mr. Downes's editorial, along with Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," should be required reading before our leaders vote to go to war, before volunteers sign their enlistment papers, during American history classes in high school and at all our military academies.

Almost all the documents, which were in a canvas bag, were from the Civil War years, and included everything from a local boy's Army enlistment paper (Champion notarized it), to a love poem written by a soldier to his Mary back home.

Specialist Robert Bahr, 25, propped himself against the Vietnam memorial as a supervisor passed him a stack of re-enlistment papers.

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

Instead Bruce Bustard, a senior curator at the Archives, searched through Army pension records, soldier enlistment rosters, government correspondence and the country's largest cache of official Confederate papers to escape burning to discover a series of what he called "little-known stories, seldom-seen documents and unusual perspectives".

Military enlistment was measured using a single-item question asking if youth had enlisted in the military since random assignment.