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