Sentence examples for enlistment standards from inspiring English sources

Among the solutions, some of which have already been put in place, the report recommended tightened enlistment standards, expanded mental health screening, a confidential alcohol treatment program and better coordination between primary care physicians and mental health counselors.

That means, one American officer said, that enlistment standards are being lowered at a time when the military faces counterinsurgency and nation-building tasks that are more complex than the traditional missions during the cold war.

At the same time, the increase highlights a cycle long known to Army researchers: as the demand for soldiers increases during a war, desertions rise and the Army tends to lower enlistment standards, recruiting more people with questionable backgrounds who are far more likely to become deserters.

But Secretary Carter wants more young people to consider joining who may not meet current enlistment standards.

Recruiters have thought of everything: higher enlistment bonuses, lower standards, turning a blind eye to the tattooed and the overweight.

Some may argue that our abandonment of merit as a criterion for officer status is simply the direction the military overall has taken — the stress of fighting two wars has lowered the bar for enlistment, and R.O.T.C. standards have also declined.

More graduates may instead seek further training or try to join the military, although the standards for enlistment are rising, too, and not all graduates are taken.

While he agrees that, "Bergdahl is certainly responsible for his own actions," we should also "hold accountable the civilian and military leaders who lowered the standards for enlistment, promoted people who did not deserve to be in the service, and who mislead and mismanaged the war efforts".

Concern for their families' standard of living made men hesitate to enlist; voluntary enlistment rates went up after the government guaranteed a weekly stipend for life to the survivors of men who were killed or disabled.

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.

Great poems tend to resist enlistment under anybody's banner, however just the fight.