term of enlistment

Ballinger returned to Galveston after his term of enlistment expired.

"Many more people leave at the end of their term of enlistment or resign because of `don't ask, don't tell.'"

When my term of enlistment was up, I enrolled in the University of Mississippi.

But one-third of all new Marines fail to make it through their first term of enlistment, including some of those Ricks follows.