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Recent Examples of enlisted
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
Ron Lerch, the Space Force's senior enlisted advisor for intelligence.
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Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
The 90-year-old financial institution started serving the enlisted and civilian personnel at Naval Station Great Lakes.
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Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
15 July 2025
One of five kids, Crumb was born in 1943 to Chuck, an enlisted Marine, and Bea, a diner waitress.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
3 Mar. 2025
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Most boards consider hundreds, if not thousands, of officers for promotion, and senior enlisted troops also come before similar boards.
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Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
Ron Lerch, the Space Force's senior enlisted advisor for intelligence.
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Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
The 90-year-old financial institution started serving the enlisted and civilian personnel at Naval Station Great Lakes.
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Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
15 July 2025
One of five kids, Crumb was born in 1943 to Chuck, an enlisted Marine, and Bea, a diner waitress.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
3 Mar. 2025
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Yet Piker himself has followed the DSA’s militant line, repeatedly praising authoritarian regimes such as China’s, Cuba’s, and Russia’s, as well as terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
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There are also concerns that fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon could escalate once more and derail future talks.
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Lasorda was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997, his first year of eligibility.
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In addition to her 32 individual Primetime Emmy Awards, more than any other documentarian, she was also inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2000, and selected for the Television Academy’s Governors Award in 2009.
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Within six months of living in Houston with his uncle, Michael Strahan was recruited to play college football.
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Novelo attended the San Francisco Art Institute and received his MFA from Stanford before Holberton recruited him to San Jose State.
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Pakistan launches operation after assault in Karachi The Pakistani security operation followed a militant attack targeting the regional headquarters of the paramilitary Rangers in Karachi that killed three soldiers.
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The Pakistani security operation followed a militant attack targeting the regional headquarters of the paramilitary Rangers in Karachi that killed three soldiers.
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Kasheena McKee-Kimbrough enrolled her son, Kireh, in summer camp at ALM Sports Bradenton to help prepare him for voluntary prekindergarten in the fall, according to WTVG and Action News 5.
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Between 10,000 and 20,000 children in Jackson County alone are enrolled.
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As of Monday, Blue was no longer employed at the McDonald’s, and is being held at the Broward County Jail without bond, per NBC Miami.
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First, that Netanyahu will once again rely on the anti-Arab rhetoric that his party has employed for years.
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The poem that precedes it, the Iliad, is a cruel and beautiful work, the ultimate story of war; the Odyssey has its warlike passages, but its central energies seem almost commonplace beside the merciless fury of Achilles.
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One of the world’s most cooperative mammals is also one of its most warlike.
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The Sudanese conflict has conscripted the neighboring countries who are selfishly courting either faction for resources or political standing, as well as greedy, exploitative foreign powers who repeatedly leverage religious and cultural tensions in the region, into the fight for profit.
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And a reverse centaur is someone who is conscripted to help the machine.
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“Enlisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enlisted. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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