- It's very true!
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- I have seen incidents of such persons and even caught
U.S. Marines smuggling their girlfriends.(Jamaican) BOTH!
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- Isn't anybody listening out there?
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- Some are promised citizenship in times of war or after
a certain period of service. Most Americans would NOT do this service as
it is NOT required.(2- years in most other countries)
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- John Carman
- www.customscorruption.com
- From Radwick@aol.com
- Subject: Stunning Disclosure of 'Illegals' in the U.S.
Military
- 3-3-4
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- These articles and commentaries are provided courtesy
of DefenseWatch, the official magazine for Soldiers For The Truth (SFTT),
a grass-roots educational organization started by a small group of concerned
veterans and citizens to inform the public, the Congress, and the media
on the decline in readiness of our armed forces. Inspired by the outspoken
idealism of retired Colonel David Hackworth, SFTT aims to give our service
people, veterans, and retirees a clear voice with the media, Congress,
the public and their services.
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- March 1, 2004
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- Stunning Disclosure Of Illegals In The Service
- By Matthew Dodd
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- Every now and then, I read or hear something that just
stops me dead in my tracks. Sometimes I break out in laughter, sometimes
I scream out in anguish, and sometimes I break down and feel like crying.
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- On rare occasions, I find myself with all those reactions.
On very rare occasions, those reactions are almost lost in a cacophony
of a multitude of rapid-fire involuntary reactions that include pride,
relief, anger, frustration, motivation, inspiration and blatant disbelief.
An article in The Denver Post on Feb. 24 that the U.S. military does not
know the citizenship status of 16,031 active-duty military personnel provided
me with my latest "very rare occasion."
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- In a recent article ("The Illegal Immigration Threat,"
DefenseWatch, Jan. 14, 2004), I talked about a 19-year old illegal alien
who used a bogus green card to enlist in the Army, and how the Army was
going to help facilitate getting him citizen status. (The Army's efforts
did result in that soldier being sworn in as a U.S. citizen.) Little did
I know at the time that that soldier was literally just the latest tip
on a monolithic iceberg.
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- Let me share with you excerpts from the Denver Post article
and my varied reactions to them:
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- The Denver Post article reported:
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- "[T]he citizenship of 16,031 members of the Army,
Air Force, Navy and Marines is listed as 'unknown.' That's about one in
100 active-duty military members who might be U.S. citizens, legal immigrants
- or just about anybody else."
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- Reaction: I am stunned, completely dumbfounded. I do
not know what is worse: the fact that we have so many "unknowns"
serving, or that they are serving despite the fact that we apparently have
reasonably accurate statistics about them.
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- Think about the logic trail for a moment. For each case,
someone knew enough about the individual to decide that he or she was an
"unknown," someone had to enter the "unknown" data
into some sort of database, someone had to be responsible for gathering
that data, someone had to need that data for some reason (or else why would
we track the data in the first place?), so someone had to see these staggering
"unknown" totals, yet nobody apparently cared enough about the
potential threat of these "unknowns" in our post-9/11 world until
the Denver Post reporter showed up and found out. Continuing:
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- "U.S. military officials say they are shoring up
defenses against illegal immigrants and others who may misrepresent themselves
and join the armed services."
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- http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Defensewatch_
030104_Illegals,00.html?ESRC=airforce.nl
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