volunteer enlistment
Unpressured military joining
Volunteer enlistment is joining military service by choice rather than through conscription or draft.
The phrase emphasizes that the person freely chose to serve: He entered the Army through volunteer enlistment rather than waiting to be drafted.
The term appears most often in historical contexts where both voluntary and compulsory service existed simultaneously.
- recruitNew member sought
- sign upFormally agree to participate
- sign on the dotted lineFormally commit to agreement
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- armyOrganized land-based military
service · duty · soldier · citizen soldier · patriotism · serve your country · oath · answer the call · induction · basic training · boot camp · uniform · deployment · shipping out · tour of duty · commitment · call to action · reserve
volunteer enlistmentconscription
Mandatory military enrollment
compulsory military service · military draft · impressment · press-ganging · selective service
volunteer enlistmentmilitary discharge
Formal release from service
discharge · draft evasion · conscientious objection · draft dodging · demobilization
volunteer, enlistment, volunteers, volunteered, volunteering, volunteerism, voluntary, voluntarily, involuntary