U.S. Offering Foreign Nationals Accelerated Citizenship for Enlisting into the Military
Does anyone think offering accelerated citizenship to foreigners to join the military to make up for the recruiting shortage is a good idea?:
The Air Force has graduated its first group of airmen who became American citizens during basic training as part of an accelerated naturalization process, which the service hopes will help solve recent difficulties in recruiting.
Fourteen foreign-born men and women who joined the Air Force were naturalized during several weeks of basic training this month at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, the service said. They graduated from basic training and signed their U.S. Certificate of Citizenship on Wednesday.
“I will always be grateful for every opportunity I have here in the best country of the world,” said Airman 1st Class Natalia Laziuk, a member of the inaugural group and a native of Russia.
The enhanced process lets foreign-born recruits settle legal citizenship requirements immediately upon entering basic training. During seven and a half weeks, they can supply all the needed paperwork, take the citizenship test and satisfy other requirements to become naturalized Americans by the time that they graduate.
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You can read more at the link, but I think if the recruits are already in the process of getting their citizenship I don’t have any issues with it. However, I think what we do need to be careful of is offering citizenship to foreigners to join the military that are not even eligible for citizenship. If a country can’t recruit its own citizens to defend it, is it still a country still worth defending? With that said I believe the current recruiting shortages are caused by self inflicted issues that can be fixed.
By the way I recommend everyone read what happened to the Roman military when it allowed large masses of foreigners to fill their ranks to make up for their recruiting shortages. It did not end well. Fortunately the U.S. military is no where near the issues Rome had, but what will it be like a hundred years from now if cutting military benefits and increasingly using foreigners to fill recruiting shortages becomes a popular way to fill the military?
We already have a large military of forieigners and it works very well to support American foreign policy.
Can you imagine the blowback if our gay and tranny force was being demilitarized by Russian special military operations on a daily basis?
Scandal.
However, we can send one of our foreign militaries and have the media say they are winning. Who is to question?
By bringing non-Americans directly into our core forces, it gives us even more flexibility when immediate mission goals exceed expected participant lifespan.
Some people would suggest the solution to recruiting shortfalls is to make the millitary once again attractive to the 25% of the population which is agressive, patriotic, red-blooded American men who want to go to college or buy a house instead of the 0.05% of the mentally ill population who know enough math to calculate the unlikelyhood of funding gender reassignment on the blöwjob economy.
Clearly the opinion of bigots.
America’s foreign policy has shifted from occupation and pretend nation building to disruption of any potential adversaries before they can get their act together.
Russia, China, EU are learning that now. Turkey and Japan will learn it in a couple of decades.
This policy requires automated weapons with rapid global delivery and a small force of superusers with awareness of everything.
An actual military of soldiers is just a formality.
It is better to make it composed of fùckoffs and misfits to confuse the enemy.
This is a wonderful plan now that we have stockplies of hypersonic missiles, fully automated bombers, autonomous robotic armed vehicles, space-based energy weapons, and such.
We have this, right?
Right?
CH, I think you may be overstating things slightly.
SpongeBrain BidenPants won’t do anything that makes Winnie the Xi upset enough to cut off the payments.
Sure, we could do what you say; but a foreign military makes it easier to put US Citizens into concentration camps. American soldiers might hesitate to do that.
And it can all be done before November 2024.