Sentence examples for terms of enlistment from inspiring English sources

Mutinies were sparked by misunderstandings over terms of enlistment, poor food and clothing, gross arrears of pay, and the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar.

Thousands of reservists and National Guard members are no longer serving voluntarily: they have been kept in the military past their agreed terms of enlistment by "stop loss" orders.

After continuing their cruise for a few weeks, both Insurgent and Constellation were forced to return to Norfolk, Virginia, by the end of March due to the expiration of the terms of enlistment of their crews.

With the terms of enlistment soon to expire for the sailors aboard her, she made preparations to return to the United States, and was relieved of duty by Constellation on 23 July.

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

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.

But for turning his cannons on soldiers who thought their term of enlistment shorter than he thought it was, and for having a teen-ager shot for refusing an order, he was feared.

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.

Upon completing his term of enlistment, he studied art at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan.