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| Military hopes to solve recruitment nightmare by appealing to legal immigrants |
| 2023-06-22 |
| Legal immigrants, OK. But watch out for this: [WashingtonExaminer] "The Biden administration still requires people to have a green card to join the military, but they're overwhelmed with people who want to join the military and cannot because they don't have a green card," said Margaret Stock, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and author of Immigration Law and the Military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard. And then...wait for it... Stock proposed opening up recruitment to immigrants who did not have a green card. The Department of Defense has the legal authority to recruit people without green cards and bestow expedited citizenship during times of war. More at the link. |
| Posted by:Abu Uluque |
| #4 Will they be putting up recruiting posters in Kabul? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-06-22 12:51 |
| #3 Recruiting a foreign army, just like Rome, so in time the Army is loyal to the paymaster, not the citizens, and is mercenary, not patriotic? History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-06-22 12:06 |
| #2 Not a large payoff, but payoff all the same to the TinFoils. 'And since many of them are already military, we save time and money in training, too.' |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-06-22 11:09 |
| #1 The also need to reach out more to the LGBTQIA+ and Trans communities. There must be a HUGE number of potential recruits there, right? /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2023-06-22 00:19 |