Word: enlistable
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Chancellor, the government would operate under the "volunteers bill" for less than a year, would enlist no more than 6,000 volunteers as "temporary civil servants" and would keep civilian control of the military...
...sooner or later be called, and unless he is in a special category (ministers, divinity students, certain government officials), he will eventually have to serve. But before he gets his induction notice, a boy still has the power to choose his service. He can either join the National Guard, enlist in one of the reserves, or try for a special officers' training program. The conditions and obligations...
...early post-war years, Heller and a friend of his, Richard D. Campbell, Jr.'48, had pushed the idea of an American seminar in Europe. When the widow of the famed German producer, Max Rinehart, offered to donate Leopoldskron to them, they were able to enlist the support of such influential figures as ex-President Conant, and received the sponsorship of the Student Council and the International Student Service. But funds were still difficult to raise. Heller and the other Americans sweated out the first session in the summer of 1947. The war in Europe had ended only two years...
There is one other new program provided by the bill, which would enable men between 17 and 19 to enlist directly in the reserves of the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps for a period of eight years, with the understanding that they will be called to serve a minimum of two years active service within 24 months of enlistment...
...bill passes, then, there will be four ways for a young man to fulfill his military obligations: 1) he may wait for induction; 2) he may enlist in one of the regular armed services for three, four or six years; 3) he may enlist in the special Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps Reserve program, or 4) he may enlist in the six-month training program