Enlist
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The transition to an all-volunteer and high-tech military, with which many people enlist to further their educations, also did away with old presumptions that soldiers weren't all that smart.
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And in the late 1960s he attempted to enlist in the United States Marine Corps and volunteer for Vietnam duty, but he was rejected due to his chronic asthma (Milius admits that being rejected by the military probably fueled his fascination with war).
Source: Creator / John Milius
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Volunteer and Enlist. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/enlist/volunteer
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