• givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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    4 months ago

    I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.

    That being said, recruiters are all pieces of shit, because if they’re not then they’re going to get taken off recruiter duty which is the cushiest posting in a lot of branches. So they do what they have to do to make their recruitment quotas.

    So it’s possible some idiot really tried this, but no one should believe anything a recruiter says.

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      4 months ago

      There seems to be a fella by that name in the Minnesota National Guard, but that doesn’t mean it’s real.

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      4 months ago

      I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.

      Pulling the ladder up behind you is not at all rare.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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        4 months ago

        Not even that, just too on the nose.

        But a lot of people do join up for citizenship, the shitty part is it gets slow-walked so people end up needing to re-enlist at least once before they can gain citizenship.

        It’s one of these weird quirks of today, like, if trump ever does deploy the military to do what ICE is doing, it’s going to be non-citizens detaining US citizens…

        I served with people whose only citizenship was Nigeria, Ghana, and a lot of the Caribbean countries, but I think they’re pretty lax on what countries can join. A guy in my boot camp was a Russian ex-cop who was in his late 30s and barely spoke English, I’m pretty sure he didn’t even live in the US before boot camp.

        I was curious and looked it up, right now 40k US military members are not citizens:

        https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48163

        So about 2% of the US military, not huge, but not zero either.