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Fifth Column
Military considers recruiting foreigners
2006-12-27
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | December 26, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals,
This story is posted solely to feature this lie.
are considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks -- including disputed proposals to open recruiting stations overseas and putting more immigrants on a faster track to US citizenship if they volunteer -- according to Pentagon officials.
As for the rest of the article, who fucking cares. It's the Boston Butt Probe. I can save you a lot of trouble by noting that there is not one single quote from a non-partisan source to corroborate the assertion.

The Boston Butt Probe is struggling to catch up with the Star Tribune in the "quality and value delivered" dept, methinks. I wish them luck, too.

Substantiating RB Stories:
2006-12-12 US military meets or exceeds most recruiting, retention targets
2006-06-10 Army Meets Recruiting Goal Again
2006-05-16 Americans Enlist in Record Numbers
IIUC, only the Guard has had difficulties, since Afghanistan, to meet goals - and that was because the pay was ridiculously low, as described here:
2006-03-13 Army Guard Refilling Its Ranks
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