Do you want to become Americans?

Increase the recruitment of foreign leaders of the military authorities decided due to lack of doctors, nurses and military personnel who speak foreign languages. These and other steps the Pentagon implicitly suggest that their ambitious plans for the U.S. military did not intend to give up even after the change of power in the White House.
Requirements for wishing to enlist in the American army down from year to year, and the military, faced with a constant shortage of manpower to be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan are increasingly forced to turn a blind eye to some of the unpleasant facts in the biography of recruits. If before the potential recruits, who had a collision with the law, the way in the American army had been closed, the last time to put up with this. And what if people are sorely lacking, and for such a specific contingent of military service is a very attractive?.

At least a tidbit military service, and it seems many potential immigrants or have already taken place. According to official data, is currently in the U.S. Army are about 29,000 foreigners. In addition, each year the Pentagon is gathering more than 8000 recruits who do not have U.S. citizenship, but who are holders of a residence permit in the U.S.. The benefit that the requirements for recruits quite low, and find a good job in the U.S. with poor English and unconfirmed diploma is not always easy.

One of the many Army recruiting sites. com lists the following requirements for those wishing to serve in the Army. Age of the future soldier must be between 17 to 34 years, he must be a U.S. citizen or have a so-called Green Card, to be unmarried ( single) or family, but have no more than two children. Educational requirements are minimal - an analog of the usual high school.

In addition, the recruit must pass a medical examination and test for physical fitness, gaining at least 50 points for each of the three tests, depending on the age category. For example, if you are between 27 and 31 years, will have to be wrung out at least 30 times, do 36 sit-ups, and run 2 miles ( just over 3 kilometers) in 17 minutes 54 seconds (women - 20 minutes 30 seconds). For more or less physically prepared and healthy person to handle it is not difficult.

intrusive prompt.

In November, the American journalist Hal Turner wrote in his blog that the government of the United States sent letters to several millions of former soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines with the notice of general mobilization. He recalled that the last time the government has announced the mobilization in 1941, during World War II. The U.S. media, however, nothing about reported.


Salary, which offer the U.S. Army recruits is relatively small. Soldier who has served less than two years, will receive about 16 thousand dollars a year, not counting the additional allowances. The corporal or a specialist with four years of service - about 25,000, and the sergeant, who has spent six years service or more - about 31 thousand dollars. But how convincing recruiters, on average, taking into account allowances soldier gets more than a similar experience and merit civilian specialist or police. For example, if taking into account the benefits and deductions patrol officer earns in a year, about 47,000, the sergeant of Military Police - 57.

And yet, in spite of the widespread agitation and numerous bonuses, Native Americans mostly do not have much desire to serve. Especially if they have the education and head on your shoulders, allowing to find a normal civilian job. Much more in the American army pulls immigrants, and even foreigners who see it as an easy loophole to get a perspective of U.S. citizenship.


All means are good.

American recruiters, to their credit, in the art of recruitment surpassed everyone and everything. Another recent statement made by the Army, has caused considerable surprise of the public Internet. One of the generals announced its intention to establish a military base in the virtual space of Second Life. It will be two separate islands. At one house the center for recruits, where you can find real information about the service in the army and the recruiting contact points, while the second - Training Center. There can be, for example, learn the basics of handling weapons and learning to skydive.

In this case the general hastened to assure that the plans for the recruitment of new recruits for 2010 are executed in full, and the standard methods of the troops and do not intend to abandon. But probably it's a little slukavil because the facts show the contrary state of affairs, and active growing recruiters.

For example, already announced by the Pentagon plans to bring in the American army to thousands of students, refugees and people in the U.S. on work visas are also very promising and very real. It's no secret that the ' guest workers ' who work in America legally, chances of getting a Green Card through official channels are not always great. If you believe the organizers of the lottery DV, they are not greater than that of those who live outside the U.S.. But the military service for immigrants - a real chance to citizenship. Similar to the situation with foreign students, who are now, if desired, after two years of study will be able to enlist in the armed forces and become true Americans.

hidden hype.

At one Russian-speaking forums online community formerly of the military department of the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan has admitted that at one time, tens of legate answered with failures in the treatment of wanting to serve America. Of course, U.S. visas, as well as ' green cards ', the authors have no complaints. Now the chance to get into the U.S. Army will even have such candidates.


It is interesting that today, the Pentagon is interested in recruits who own very specific foreign languages ​​- Albanian, Korean, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Chinese, Czech, Malay and Swahili. In some countries where these languages ​​are native, the U.S. has managed to place its troops to war, and even. In other U.S. troops are no. Well, or at least not yet.

The language underpaid U.S. military, and pretty well. For a promise of up to 700 dollars a month, and a few you can get an allowance up to a thousand. Now, according to official statistics, the U.S. Army are about 20,000 such professionals, including reservists.

A similar situation exists with the medical staff, which, according to the announced program, are also planning to recruit in the American army. In the U.S., as in some other Western countries, has long been a program under which medical students and faculty can receive from the army is not only a bonus in the form of full payment of study, and scholarship - about 1.9 thousand dollars per month. Of course, in exchange for a promise to provide a notarized document after the release for the good of America. In return for each year of study paid for the army to take the appropriate time in uniform. At the same time for military scholars set the required minimum, depending on the specialty. For example, dentists, psychologists and optometrists will provide not less than three years, other health professionals - at least two years.

All these measures are likely to help, but not fully. Now, according to official statistics, the Army lacks a thousand physicians. And we can assume that compete with the ordinary civilian army hospitals hard - doctors in the United States in any case, make good, certainly less than the working professional mason or miner, but quite nice and clean work.

Those wishing to use the new loophole for sure there are many. Most likely, even more than expected. Although originally announced program is only a year, and plans to recruit a thousand ' temporary residents ' future prospects it has. Hunters get a residence permit in the U.S., there is always.



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