sfzombie13

at the risk of feeding the troll...no you don't understand it. what usually happens, since you have no knowledge other than however you normally get your information, is that non-citizens are enlisted and told they have a clear path to citizenship. this is true, it is very clear, and gets them a green card after a year. i know a few recruiters and that is their main selling points for them, so they make it very clear. it's not their fault that some are too stupid to follow through. it is very clear that when they get the card, they need to apply for naturalization, like everyone else, which was relayed to them upon enlistment. again, not the recruiter's fault if the soldier forgot, waited too long, or was too stupid to do it. i can assure you that the recruiter will use every tool they have to get the soldier enlisted. no way they forget to tell non-citizens that they can get a green card and citizenship by enlisting. quotas exist and are hard to fill at some times, and even more when you've been fighting everyone else for decades. after they get out, though...well, that's all i have to say about that. the separation process needs overhauled, at the very least, and scrapped and started over if they actually want to make anything better. hell, even participants in a crusade were treated better than us soldiers upon their return. when you send people to combat, you are responsible for bringing them all the way back, not just drop them at their bases and give them a medal. in my opinion, they should have a green card upon arrival at their first duty station, and citizenship upon discharge of an honorable term or completion of a combat tour, posthumously if needed, and applied to immediate family as well.

i have jumped without an aad for years and the deciding factor for me was the cost. i got a mars m2 for $950, made in feb 21, installed feb 21. if it's an aad, and on the market in the us, it works. i still don't like them, and prefer not to have one, but would like to jump at other dzs this year, covid willing, and most of them require one. still trying to process that one, but whatever.

you're either trolling now or sorely uninformed on the us military. i assume the first, but have been wrong, so here you go. the military isn't one big unit or group. it is many smaller groups. not all groups have the same commanders or members. some groups do things a little differently than others. just because someone didn't tell those "many" vets exactly what they needed to do does not mean that the process was not available to them. in fact, thanx to the link provided, i found out that all of the deported ones can apply for a green card and get it if they are eligible and have the fee waived, no matter where they are. so it is a non issue, or if it is, is an easily remedied issue, even now.

yeah, that's what they have a tendency to do with dogs who bite people. i think they should have the run of the white house, but they do need to leave the security detail alone. i know my pitbull hates guns of any kind. if you have one around him, he goes for it. but he was raised by a bunch of idiots who mistreated him. rescues are the best dogs.

just doing his job from what the article said. bit a security agent. protecting the family. at least they didn't put him down.

unless you happened to be in one of the various immigrant groups discriminated against over the past two centuries or so. chinese, japanese, italians, irish, etc, etc. all were 2d class citizens for a while. until the next group came in, in some cases anyway. the good old days were not very good, memories fade and make it seem better than it ever really was.

i had a guy explain it to me very clearly once, not too long ago over a beer. he said that when the cia was running their illegal ops in the vietnam area, they saw how profitable it would be to have access to the labor in china, so they started looking into how to get in. that was what prompted nixon to go to china, and opened it up. it took them years of plotting to get to be able to effectively manage things, and then the decade of excess started in '80. everything was in such an excess then, nobody has looked back since. until the bubbles bust every now and then. it's just so damned profitable until then it's worth it. like having insurance. now i don't know any of this is true, but it just makes so much sense and matches some of what i do know that isn't common knowledge.

it started when nixon went to china. greed opened them all up after that, but the reagan years and newt were the formative years of what we have now.

i hope the bastard stays right the hell where he is for a few more years. i just read about the two republican gubernatorial candidates who want his seat to pardon trump. that can not be allowed to happen, no matter who did or said what. there will be time to reckon with the consequences after that fiasco has passed.

the study was done from dec through feb so it is pretty recent data. the numbers are what they are, i didn't adjust them nor did the folks with the study. not sure where you get zero hospitalizations after a vaccine, but it isn't happening in israel from dec-feb of this year.

i think they fixed that airport issue, will find out today. looks like a couple of the guys didn't want to wait til the weekend...

i read about the ones in israel last month but had my numbers wrong, it says one shot was 74% effective at preventing hospitalization and two were 87%. not sure where you got your numbers that show no hospitalization after being vaccinated, but these show it to be pretty good. 94% effective at stopping it and zero deaths is something to look forward to. too bad these idiots in tx and mi couldn't wait a few more weeks. it will be interesting to see which numbers go up first.

you can get a license at 16 with almost no training, the exact opposite of germany. it shows when you see folks at 80+ with about a car length following distance. then they all get amazed when one hits the brakes and 100 or so pile up...idiots.

it happens every year. this was a record, but we got most of the shit out. just a few items that need hosed off. grass is probably too wet to take off and land from, so it looks like we get to shovel mud this weekend. the video where they couldn't get the kayak in the door of the hangar was pretty cool.

set a new record this year. thought it was funny with the beer can floating by the chair.

nobody who was vaccinated has died from covid yet. zero there. 100% living is something to shoot for. i think i read that nobody had to be ventilated either, but that may be wrong.

kinda like we have a problem that not only does nobody know about, but seems that nobody cares...

same thing if you lose half your eq. maybe that's why they don't care about anyone other than themselves...

yeah, you gotta watch that abusive content. they got me for a day for just saying "that's what a racist bastard would say". i didn't even call him a racist bastard, it actually took me three tries to get it down to where i didn't think it was abusive. apparently, the mods disagreed.

my bad. sarcasm doesn't convey well in text.

my bad.

that is exactly what a racist bastard would say. don't listen to the guy who is trying to explain how white people can help, or how they ARE the CAUSE of the problem, throw another excuse in there and change the subject back to something you're more comfortable with. that will solve it. don't be afraid of being branded, you did that to yourself.

didn't watch it, did ya? i didn't think you would.

listen to this guy. he is more eloquent than i, and explains why white privilege does exist and other things you should know. unless you're just trolling.

my dad told me once that when you're leading troops, remember that all of them, even the stupidest, most worthless one had someone at home who thought he was the best thing on earth and treat him like it. it stuck with me.