posted on Oct, 2 2004 @ 09:37 PM
This is old news.
When I served, in my basic training company, we had Mexican, Brazilian, Dominican, and Philipine citizens in our unit. In AIT, we had Puerto Rican
drill seargants, guys from the west indies, a Scottish instructor, ect. In my unit we had jamacians, Dominicans, even Canadians. Its something we have
done for a very long time. Some of the best units in the civil war were irish immigrants.
My only objection to any foreigners serving in our armed forces is if they cannot speak English and get a communications job. That posses a serious
threat to the well being of the troops, if you cannot communicate info and orders clearly over a radio or comm system, you create a big Hazard.
Otherwise, non Americans are pretty much welcome in the military, and do the country great service, and I believe they should be allowed citizenship
if they so desire, since they have contributed to our country.
other than a comm NCO who couldnt speak intelligable English and caused alot of problems because of it, all other foreigners Ive served with Ive had
very good experiences with, and do excellent jobs.