If that is the case, then every married US service member of a child procreating age who is given orders to deploy for a long term assignment overseas and moves there with their spouse, such as a base in Germany, should be able to refuse such an assignment based on the assumption that any of their children born while serving their country overseas, would be deemed to be a second class citizen. Would you not agree? No, there is something called the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Perhaps you have heard of it ? When you enter the military, you abide by that. You don't get to choose your orders.
No, there is something called the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Perhaps you have heard of it ? When you enter the military, you abide by that. You don't get to choose your orders. I agree 100%. But again I ask why should a child born abroad to a US service member and his spouse while on a deployment overseas, granted that they are both US citizens, have met the US residency requirements and register the birth at the US consulate, not be afforded the same citizenship a NBC, as would be granted to the children of US diplomats born abroad?