Career Soldier
Most soldiers serve a single term, especially draftees. Others choose to serve until retirement; then they receive a pension and other benefits. In the USA, servicemembers can retire at 20 years. In other services, 30 years (hence the term "30-year man").
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Famous quotes containing the words career and/or soldier:
“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)
“Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)