Sentence examples for enlistment term from inspiring English sources

Two years later, he shortened the army enlistment term from 12 years' active service (it had been 21 years from 1815 to 1847) to six years' active duty and six years' reserve obligation, making possible for the first time in Great Britain a large, well-prepared reserve of reasonably young men.

As I approached both the end of my enlistment term and my 22nd birthday though, I wasn't thinking about what I'd do after the Corps.

Shortly after Hogun's arrival, many of North Carolina's militia present in the city began to return home because their enlistment terms ended on or about March 24.

The three-year men of the 8th and 29th Infantry, two other German-American units reduced by casualties and expiring enlistment terms, were consolidated into the 68th.

Forgiving those debts would encourage others not to finish their enlistment terms in expectation they could keep the money, Levine said.

The 1776 establishment of the Continental Army only had enlistment terms of one year, a matter that would again be a problem in late 1776.

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

"I claim the right to decline," a Pennsylvanian explained, for "confining enlistments to a term of three years excludes a worthy class".

Last year about three-quarters of Army volunteers who completed their first term of enlistment, and nearly as many marines, chose not to re-enlist.

The regiment soon disbanded after its three-month term of enlistment expired.

I finished up my term of enlistment at a naval base in Jacksonville, Florida, and then I was discharged in time for me to go to Harvard as a freshman," he told me.