“To raise self-esteem in the ranks, each enlistee would now have the right to wear a black beret as of this June.”

“It's useful to speculate how a foreign enlistee on the naturalization fast-track would reply to the same question.”

“A standout enlistee, he was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services and sent with a special team to French Indochina.”

“The lists engraved in stone during the war of those who had joined up helped encourage further enlistment.”

“Low enlistment numbers in the nation's military forces once prompted them to hire advertising agencies.”

“The notion of unfairness has also resulted from the demands of the military for service beyond an agreed or implied enlistment period.”

“That system is also creaking to a halt, with plunging enlistments and retentions.”

“Nearly destitute of food, clothing, and ammunition, with enlistments expiring and men abandoning what looked like a lost cause, the Continental army was about to fade away.”

“Underemployed drill sergeants reassigned from understocked basic training bases could not be replaced quickly with comparable talent if enlistments pick up later.”