Sentence examples for first enlistment from inspiring English sources

He served out his first enlistment as a Ranger.

An Arabic linguist during his first enlistment, he is thinking of learning Dari or Pashto so he can go to Afghanistan.

Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said recently that "about a quarter of entry-level candidates are too overweight to actually either enter the military or sustain themselves through the first enlistment".

General Chiarelli said that the majority of Army suicides — 60 percent — are committed during a soldier's first enlistment, typically four years, and that the most dangerous year is the first.

"People are leaving after their first enlistment because they are tired of being shot at, and their families are tired of the frequent deployments," Mr. Lisicki said in a statement after meeting the president.

In 2010, General Chiarelli said that about 60 percent of Army suicides occurred during a soldier's first enlistment, typically four years, and that the most dangerous year was the first — suggesting that repeated deployments to war zones were not necessarily a major factor in suicide.

The first enlistments took place on May 12, and soon scores of black men from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, the Midwest states – even Canada – had eagerly signed on.

He did not have that problem on his second enlistment.

He was Gunner Henry L. Hulbert, who had been in the Corps for 20 years and was on his fifth enlistment.

Washburn left his job as secretary of a Lancaster insurance company and joined a group of local business and civic leaders who recruited volunteers for a ninth-month enlistment.

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.