enlistment


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Synonyms for enlistment

a period of time spent in military service

the act of enlisting (as in a military service)

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According to an ECP official, under Section 6 of the act, a party that has been refused enlistment or whose registration has been cancelled may, within 30 days of the refusal or cancellation of enlistment, file an appeal in the Supreme Court.
Rachel Taylor, programme manager at Child Soldiers International, said: "The Ministry of Defence claims that targeting disadvantaged and often vulnerable young people for premature enlistment is in their best interests.
When your enlistment is up, you still have the GI bill to extend your education.
Airmen who choose to omit the words "so help me God" from enlistment and officer appointment oaths may do so.
It may be further recalled that advertisements have been floated to the media for enlistment in police force in which 25th April 2014 has been fixed as last date for submission of documents.
But, during the more than 20 years I have spent reviewing Union and Confederate enlistment records, I have seen little to bear this out.
Saued goes from door to door in the Bedouin and Arab villages in northern Israel, while also working to increase enlistment in the south of the country.
The Army tightened its requirements for enlistment and re-enlistment when it switched to an all-volunteer force but it began allowing waivers in select instances when volunteers couldn't meet its medical, moral and criminal records requirements.
Dr Grayson overthrows that assumption through a study of enlistment in West Belfast, one of the city's most divided areas.
NEW recruits reached dizzying heights when they officially joined the Army on the summit of Snowdon - the highest enlistment to ever take place in the country.
Sailors hung on to a sense of "sailors rights", which included their right to riot when their terms of enlistment or pay agreements were violated.
Prior to 1998, home-schooled recruits entered the military's "Tier 2"--a category reserved for recruits who are deemed "less likely to succeed," meaning home-schooled members of the military had little hope of career advancement, and could not receive enlistment bonuses and college funding.
Enlistment levels (active force) third or greater enlistment 38% second enlistment 18% first enlistment 44% Note: Table made from pie chart.
As Carter, a former Army officer, knows well, there's no such thing as a "two-year enlistment," as the article seems to imply.
I cannot understand why the Government doesn't invoke the powers which still exist under the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870.