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Word: reenlistment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marine Staff Sergeant Michael Robinson, 26, works as a career planner at El Toro Marine Base near Santa Ana, Calif., charged with persuading first-term Marines to reenlist. Now, ironically, Robinson himself is leaving the service after eight years, passing up a $10,000 re-enlistment bonus, to manage apartment houses. Says Robinson: "I like the corps but I can't get by with the low pay and the diminishing benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More in Sorrow than in Anger | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

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