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Call the recruit(s) enlisting for the first time or service member(s) re-enlisting to attention. To perform an oath of enlistment is to supervise an enlisted recruit’s commitment to the U.S. military.

Mahoney, 26, will soon reenlist for the second time. After months of arguing Benjamin Franklin, wrote to the committee as they met Sept. 17, 1787, begging them to become unified in their quest. An enlisted recruit may ask a family member, mentor or commanding officer to administer … Classroom is the educational resource for people of all ages. Subtlety aside, Franklin’s words must have worked. The wording was slightly beefed up for the enlisted by Sept. 20, 1776, and approved by Congress to be “true to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies opposers whatsoever; and to observe and obey the orders of the Continental Congress and the orders of the Generals and officers set over me by them.” The United States is still spoken of in the plural at this point in time. It held onto nearly 65% of Zone A sailors, or those with less than six years in. In this case, however, he will forfeit any chance of promotion during his service (this refusal is not to be mistaken for the conscientious objection to military service, which allows German conscripts to render a social alternative service). The oath currenly used by enlisted personnel was revised in 1960, taking effect in 1962 as follows: “I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The service blasted past its 2019 retention goals for enlisted sailors in their first 10 years in uniform. Are you kidding me? The oath for regular units is an oath in the word's proper sense.