If enlistees show extraordinary leadership potential, they must still abide by the lockstep timetable.

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The enlistees can potentially use their military training as a substitute for college education, though they will not earn as much as college graduates.

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The service should also open the officer ranks to lateral hires, including enlistees who show talent and former officers who may have done a stint in the private sector.

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First West Coast utilities to join up include Puget Sound Energy, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Seattle City Light, and Xcel Energy, and nope, none of those overlap with PowerMeter's first enlistees.

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US, that oral promises made by military recruiters offering free military medical care to service enlistees and their dependents for life in exchange for twenty years of military service, were invalid.

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Some enlistees expressed concern over the new policy.

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Ironically, military enlistees, who must learn to recognize a problem (like, where a bullet is coming from) and then solve it or die, may be better equipped to compete in the real world than their academically oriented brothers and sisters!

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Two such enlistees were William O.

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