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to enlistment

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Voluntary service based on an individuals' desire to serve a cause.

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A series of dead-end jobs led to enlistment in the Navy, which discharged him when his anxieties made it impossible for him to pass inspections.

He is urged to get a statement from a doctor or dentist who treated or examined this tooth prior to enlistment.

Australian rules football was under almost constant siege from jingoists for being a distraction to enlistment as was rugby league, as a recruitment poster from the period suggests.

Another journalist, trying to ignite fervor for enlistment, asked, "You, brethren, who have pined in bondage, you who have wives or children or parents writhing under the lash … can you ask any more than a chance to drive bayonet or bullet into the slaveholders' hearts?" However, those opposed to enlistment found a valuable ally in Frederick Douglass.

The New Yorker, October 12, 1940 P. 16 Incidental Intelligence: The Navy recruiting office has abandoned its famous slogan "Join the Navy and See the World" in favor of "The attention of all young men, who are citizens of the United States, is invited to the advantages incident to enlistment in the United States Navy.

By D. K. Beckley and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, October 12, 1940 P. 16 Incidental Intelligence: The Navy recruiting office has abandoned its famous slogan "Join the Navy and See the World" in favor of "The attention of all young men, who are citizens of the United States, is invited to the advantages incident to enlistment in the United States Navy.

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The Journal also reported that the guidelines direct the Pentagon to cease paying related medical bills for transgender men and women currently serving and to deny enlistment to transgender men and women in the future.

And leads off the Internet convert to enlistments at twice the rate of other media sources".

Zweig's story Compulsion (1920), one of his finest, concerns Ferdinand, an artist who has fled to Switzerland to avoid enlistment.

But his early life took him from art school in his native Munich to Zurich to escape enlistment in the Germany army and into an international circle of pacifist artists and writers.

William's thoughts on the war greatly influenced his brother, and John Sherman returned home to Ohio to encourage enlistment, briefly serving as an unpaid colonel of Ohio Volunteers.

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