Posted on 06/12/2023 9:23:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Esmita Spudes Bidari was a young girl in Nepal, she dreamed of being in the military, but that wasn’t a real option in her country.
Last week, she raised her right hand and took the oath to join the US Army Reserves, thanks in part to a recruiter in Dallas who also is Nepalese and reached out to her through an online group.
Bidari, who heads to basic training in August, is just the latest in a growing number of legal migrants enlisting in the US military as it more aggressively seeks out immigrants, offering a fast track to citizenship to those who sign up.
Struggling to overcome recruiting shortfalls, the Army and the Air Force have bolstered their marketing to entice legal residents to enlist, putting out pamphlets, working social media and broadening their outreach, particularly in inner cities.
One key element is the use of recruiters with similar backgrounds to these potential recruits.
“It is one thing to hear about the military from locals here, but it is something else when it’s from your fellow brother, from the country you’re from,” said Bidari, who was contacted by Army Staff Sgt. Kalden Lama, the Dallas recruiter, on a Facebook group that helps Nepalese people in America connect with one another. “That brother was in the group and he was recruiting and he told me about the military.”
The military has had success in recruiting legal immigrants, particularly among those seeking a job, education benefits and training as well as a quick route to becoming an American citizen.
But they also require additional security screening and more help filling out forms, particularly those who are less proficient in English.
Both the Army and the Air Force say they will not meet their recruiting goals this year
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20 years as a grunt works for me.
Thats not how long they need to get it.
It appears they get it after completing basic training.
Not good IMO. Not good at all.
This is nothing new. There were recruits with green cards when I went to Navy boot camp in 2003.
Best way to find troops loyal to the government instead of the Constitution.
There's a bill that would allow them to apply (key word) for citizenship after their first day of service. Currently, they have to wait a year. I see this bill passed the House last December but I can't find any further action on it.
The Romans did that, too. See where that turned out. When a country’s own young men and women don’t/won’t serve, you end up with a mercenary force that owes you nothing except that for which you have to give, and keep giving, them as bribes.
In the article they are captioned getting it earlier than 1 year of service.
There’s a long and honorable history of granting citizenship in exchange for military service. We should welcome those willing and ready to defend the US.
It’s part of FJB. Nobody wants to serve the moron.
We aren’t even getting into reduced competencies/ capabilities. I’ve no delusions, should the regime be able to they would empty the gang prisons of El Salvador to enforce the whims and primacy of the Amerikan secular religion, they would do so- what of the armies of military aged males being shepereded across from the Darien Gap into the heartlands of the nation? Financed by our tax dollars and well meaning religious charity/ fealty. Given poor proxy performance in the Ukraine, the myth of USA military and grift/ tech supremacy seems quite illusory. I’ve no doubt they would use these new USA-ite’s (given citizenship in a mere seven weeks from the onset of basic) would turn arms on the traditional Americans at the easiest provocation. They are not our fellows, and they never can be. The sooner people realize this, and the grievous errors arising from this base ignorance are overturned, the sooner we can reclaim our American nation.
All for it as long as they show loyalty
for their God given gift, by placing
window decals or license plates proudly
displaying the red, white, and blue on
their cars, or displays in their home
windows and yards.
Lots of Latinos around here. I’m truly
amazed at the display of flags and symbols
from their home countries that they
tried so hard to escape from. Makes no
sense to me.
My mother and her only brother came to the U.S. with their mother from Canada some time in the late 1920’s, and settled in Rochester, NY. On September 9, 1942, my uncle enlisted in the U.S. Army. Because he wasn’t a citizen, he needed to be naturalized in order to serve. Since there was no record of the date he had originally entered the U.S., the Army took him to Niagara Falls, dropped him off on the Canadian side of the falls, and had him walk back over into the U.S. via the Peace Bridge. My sister used to tell me this story, but I’d always wondered how factual it was because there was no written record of it. My uncle died in 1964. When I joined Ancestry.com, I found the paperwork for his naturalization. His entrance via the Peace Bridge was on June 1, 1943, and he was naturalized by the Clerk of the Court on July 28, 1943, while stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on his way to the west coast to head overseas. He was in the 857th Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company, and served in the China, Burma, India theater.
We now have the type of military that if a real war happens a very significant number of them would desert. It happened during the reserve call up for Desert Storm to a lesser degree. There were a lot of single parents saying “I never thought I would have to actually serve active duty, who is going to watch my kids?”. I can only imagine what todays goofball recruits would do to keep from having to go to war.
Nothing new. Been doing this for decades.
I am sad it has come to this
“I’ve no doubt they would use these new USA-ite’s (given citizenship in a mere seven weeks from the onset of basic) would turn arms on the traditional Americans at the easiest provocation.”
BINGO!
In police states, the local police are often brought in from another part of the country, so it is easier for them to see the locals as enemies. Same idea.
Rome replaced its soldiers with barbarian mercenaries.
Nothing new. I went to USMC boot camp in 1967. The option for legal resident aliens (green card holder) to enlist for citizenship at the end of an honorable term of service was available even then.
Here’s an interesting twist.
The draft was still in effect in 1967. Turns out, if you are a legal resident alien, you are also eligible to be drafted.
We had one (a drafted legal resident alien) in my platoon.
He was considered to be double unlucky. First, he had been drafted. Second,he had been selected to serve in the Marine Corps (instead of going to the Army).
He was from Mexico and was completely baffled by what had happened to him. Of course, the maniacs in Smoky Bear hats were shouting in a language he barely understood while pushing, pulling, and punching people made the experience even more of a nightmare. As mentioned, his English wasn’t very good. The drill instructors took pity on him, and had the recruits tutor him on his various knowledge tests and skills trials that he had to pass in order to escape boot camp.
IIRC, he ended up being selected for training as a truck driver. I don’t know what happened to him after boot camp, but I assume he completed his enlistment, became a citizen, and got as far away as he could from the Marine Corps.
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