He had enlisted in the Army straight out of high school and had immediately set about learning his new trade.

In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

" An aluminum identification tag, the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped with the name, rank, company, regiment, or corps of the wearer, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn, the tag to be suspended from the neck, underneath the clothing, by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tab.

In 1918, the Army adopted and allotted the serial number system, and name and serial numbers were ordered stamped on the identification tags of all enlisted troops.

His first film part was at the age of 13, and by the age of 25 he had appeared in 20 films and served two years as an enlisted man in the United States Army.

In 1898 Runyon enlisted in the U. S. Army to fight in the Spanish-American War.

Unable to support himself, on May 27, 1827, Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private.

Within four days after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Capra quit his highly successful directing career in Hollywood and enlisted as a major in the United States Army.

For instance, in the United States Army of 2009, there were only approximately 49, 000 Infantrymen out of about 565, 000 active duty enlisted personnel.

With the outbreak of World War I, Whale enlisted in the British Army and became an officer.

Although Whale had little interest in the politics behind the war, he realized that conscription was inevitable so he enlisted in the Army.

He then enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Military Police Corps.

Congress later established a system of " dual enlistment " for the National Guard, so that anyone who enlisted in the National Guard also enlisted in the U. S. Army.

Her grandfather, Russell Crawford Mitchell, of Atlanta, enlisted in the Confederate States Army in July 1861, and was later severely wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg.

Pirsig enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 and was stationed in South Korea until 1948.

* 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.

Upon graduating from Johnstown High School in 1945, he enlisted in the U. S. Army on October 26, 1945, and did military service in postwar Germany, where he drew comics for an Army newspaper.

Franks enlisted in the United States Army in 1965 and attended Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and received his Advanced Individual Training as a cryptologic analyst at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.

In 1861, a company of male students and faculty members enlisted in the Army to fight in the American Civil War.

With the outbreak of the Civil War in the U. S., many black refugees enlisted in the Union Army and, while some later returned to Canada, many remained in the United States.

After losing the mayoral election to Fiorello La Guardia in 1941, O ' Dwyer enlisted in the US Army, achieving the rank of brigadier general.

The following year, when the U. S. entered World War I, Willkie enlisted in the Army.

After joining them in 1942, their son, Péter Bartók, enlisted in the United States Navy where he served in the Pacific during the remainder of the war and later settled in Florida where he became a recording and sound engineer.

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

In October 1943 ( during the Second World War ), he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and served with the first racially integrated crew on the USCGC Sea Cloud, under Carlton Skinner.

** Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War II, Nazi Stalag XX-B ( prisoner-of-war camp ) for enlisted men

The color guard consists of enlisted members and is commanded by the senior ( color ) Sergeant, who carries the National Color and gives the necessary commands for movements and rendering honors during drill exercises or parade ceremonies.

Perec's father, who enlisted in the French Army during World War II, died in 1940 from unattended gunfire or shrapnel wounds, and Perec's mother perished in the Nazi Holocaust, probably in Auschwitz after 1943.

He enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve during World War II, served as a lieutenant commander, and never returned to film, preferring instead to live off his investments.

In February 1756, during the French and Indian War ( the North American theater of the Seven Years ' War ), he enlisted in the provincial army.

At the age of 17, following his graduation from Victoria Composite High School in Edmonton, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was trained as an aerial gunner during the latter part of World War II ( but was too young to be fully trained or sent overseas ).

During World War II, some Papuan men enlisted in the Papua Infantry Battalion, and others as carriers over trails and rough terrains ( porters ) as supply support to Allied and Japanese armies during long jungle marches.

A population-based, cross-sectional epidemiological study involving American veterans of the Gulf War, non-Gulf War veterans, and non-deployed reservists enlisted both during Gulf War era and outside the Gulf War era concluded the prevalence of MCS-type symptoms in Gulf War veterans was somewhat higher than in non-Gulf War veterans.

Her father was enlisted as a soldier during the war, and sustained head injuries that caused severe brain damage ; he died in a concentration camp.

He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and served on the Eastern Front.

In May 1940, during the Battle of France, Dewey enlisted as a lieutenant in the Polish Military Ambulance Corps with the Polish Army fighting in France.

Gobel enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and served as a flight instructor in AT-9 aircraft at Altus, Oklahoma and later in B-26 Marauder bombers at Frederick, Oklahoma.

At its peak during World War II, the base employed more than 1, 000 officers, 10, 000 enlisted personnel and 4, 000 civilians.

* Charles Hewitt, an enlisted man, was part of a 40-member raiding party that during the night of July 10, 1777 captured at his home in Newport General Prescott, the British commander of a large occupation force of Hessian soldiers in Newport, Rhode Island.

He enlisted at 16 and was with General Sherman during his March to the Sea.

After the outbreak of World War II, George immediately enlisted as he saw the need to stop Hitler and the Nazi regime but he unfortunately was not faithful to Lucy during his time at war.

Eudora strongly supported the Union during the Civil War, many of its men enlisted to defeat the Confederacy.

He and his brother Thomas enlisted in the army during the Civil War.

Post Office Department airmail flights during the 1920s and 1930s ; a small detachment of enlisted men ( detached service ) from Marshall Field and Fort Riley, Kansas, constituted the only military presence on the field between 1935-1940.

Alexandria was the birthplace of Luther C. Ladd ( 1843 – 1861 ), the first enlisted soldier to lose his life in the Civil War, shot during the Baltimore Riot.