Older soldiers have also been added to the ranks through stop-loss, a policy that extends the tours of soldiers beyond their enlistment contracts.

Since new men had enlistment contracts of only sixty days, Jackson decided to get the most out of his untried force.

For example, the force's personnel policies include no enlistment contract, and fighters can leave any time, the peacekeepers say.

He signed his enlistment contract on September 11, 2001.

Obviously, he's not being told about stop-loss, the policy that can extend soldiers' tours beyond their enlistment contracts.

The Defense Department may recall members from inactive service as noted in their enlistment contracts.

Typically, a recruit is sent to boot camp several months after signing an enlistment contract.

He won a court challenge to that proceeding, but was forced out of the Army in 1984 when his enlistment contract expired.

In any case, the Volunteers' enlistment contracts bound them for domestic service only.

Yet Washington honored his men's enlistment contracts and did not stop his soldiers from leaving his army.