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  • It is with that young, legless soldier in mind, Jones said, that he intends to introduce a bill next year insisting that Congress -- not the Pentagon -- decide whether or not soldiers should be forcibly re-enlisted.

    Backdoor Draft Winding Down -- For Now The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Ora was supposed to make the hike with her younger son Ofer, to celebrate the end of his mandatory service with the IDF but at the last minute Ofer re-enlisted, to take part in an aggressive initiative against the Palestinians, a kick-ass operation, three armored units together?

    Nina Sankovitch: End of War: To the End of the Land by David Grossman Nina Sankovitch 2010

  • And, if he did complete his four years with the USMC and then re-enlisted in the U.S.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Nicholas re-enlisted and maneuvered his way to the Marine detachment at the Saigon embassy.

    The Old Soldier Who Didn't Fade Away Michael M. Phillips 2011

  • In a crisis of anxiety about her younger son, who's just re-enlisted during an emergency call-up after finishing his three years of compulsory service, Ora knows that running away from home is "a meager and pathetic sort of protest" that's no more likely to protect her child than any other form of magical thinking, yet she can't stop herself.

    Mother tries to stay ahead of grief in David Grossman's "To the End of the Land" Donna Rifkind 2010

  • I myself have also re-enlisted and will be going "down range" to do some training and won't be back until september roughly as well.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • About 6 months later he apparently re-enlisted into the National Guard

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Served only one tour in Vietnam as a truck driver, highest rank E-5, re-enlisted and then discharged after

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • A second DD-214 form, dated July 21, 1970, shows that Hammons re-enlisted in October 1966 and served four more years in the Marines.

    EDWARD LEE HAMMONS 2010

  • In a crisis of anxiety about her younger son, who's just re-enlisted during an emergency call-up after finishing his three years of compulsory service, Ora knows that running away from home is "a meager and pathetic sort of protest" that's no more likely to protect her child than any other form of magical thinking, yet she can't stop herself.

    Mother tries to stay ahead of grief in David Grossman's "To the End of the Land" Donna Rifkind 2010

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