term of enlistment
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She said all of them were in their first term of enlistment, so they were younger, lower-ranking personnel.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
Parker served a three-month term of enlistment in the Union army at the beginning of the war.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
The time had gone by when even an acquaintance of other days would be apt to calculate that his term of enlistment in the army had not run its full course.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
Third: A standing army with a reserve composed of men who have served a term of enlistment in the regular army.
From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard
Some pleaded ill health; the term of enlistment of many had expired, and they were bent on returning home; and others, who had no such excuses to make became exceedingly turbulent, and mutinous.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
