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Recruiting sergeant
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Recruiting sergeant : ウィキペディア英語版
Recruiting sergeant

A recruiting sergeant is a British or American soldier of the rank of sergeant who is tasked to enlist recruits. The term originated in the British army of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The playwright George Farquhar served as an infantry officer, and the characters in his play ''The Recruiting Officer'' (1706) are drawn from life.
The unscrupulous methods used by some to trick the innocent have been the subject of several traditional songs composed by their victims as a warning to others, popular examples being the Irish traditional song ''Arthur McBride'' and the Scots ''Twa Recruiting Sergeants''.
A recruit would be given the King's shilling as a mark of the contract made.
The term has passed into the English language to mean any set of circumstances which recruits or fails to recruit volunteers to the army. See ''Daily Telegraph'' headline
''(The CIA is al-Qaeda's best recruiting sergeant )
==See also==

* Press gang Officially sanctioned gangs who once kidnapped people to serve in the military or navy, usually by force and without notice.

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