12-13-2008, 02:24 AM
incognegro wrote:
how can you serve in the military without being a US citizen?
I'm not sure how it works now, but I had a friend in the Air Force in the late 70' who was not a U.S. citizen. The only problem was that he couldn't get the security clearance his job required unless he became a citizen. I never understood how he was allowed to go into his field given this issue. I knew others who worked on crypto gear, and they were conditionally allowed to enter this field; they had to obtain their TS SCI (top secret sensitive compartmentalized information) billet to remain in crypto maintenance.