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Now there are new lyrics on the tips of all of our tongues: “Muslim ban,” “border wall,” “war on the press,” “hate crimes.” They are heard in the resistance to Donald Trump, the type of human being who extolled Ali upon his death and now lords over the persecution of the Champ’s own flesh and blood. We need to stand wi... |
DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, in a joint statement on Syria, agreed to continue joint efforts on fighting Islamic State until it is defeated, the Kremlin said on Saturday. |
The two leaders also confirmed their commitment to Syria’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and called on all parties to the Syrian conflict to take an active part in the Geneva political process. |
Moscow and Washington agree there is no military solution to the conflict, according to the text of the joint statement published on the Kremlin’s website. |
Military Times Forums > Hot Topics > Military Life > Non-citizens in the military?? |
View Full Version : Non-citizens in the military?? |
Anyone know WHEN the us govt, started allowing non-citizens to serve, and WHY?? How can a non-citizen get a security clearance?? |
Anyone know WHEN the us govt, started allowing non-citizens to serve, and WHY?? |
Since at least the Civil War; something like 20-25% of the Union Army was foreign born non-citizens. From around 1900-the 1970's the Navy had a program that allowed personnel from the Philippines to enlist and perform a variety of jobs. |
How can a non-citizen get a security clearance?? |
In general they can't; if they have a particular set of skills etc. they can get a Limited Access Authorization which only can be used for regular SECRET and below. The military uses this for non-citizen enlistees who need access to CONFIDENTIAL & SECRET information but some operational information is still restricted. |
I don't remember what years they were, but the Air Force had enlisted non-citizens. I also wondered about the security clearance issue. Not sure if it applied to all but I remember one who became a citizen. |
Today the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps - Italy is hosting His Excellency Peter McGovern, the Ambassador of Canada. The diplomat was received at the "Ugo Mara" Barracks in Solbiate Olona by the Deputy Commander of NRDC-ITA Major General Sir George NORTON, instead of the Commander, currently engaged in an institutional vi... |
Steelers' forward Jonas Westerling was Sheffield's hero tonight. |
Having never scored a brace for Steelers, he went one better and notched a hat trick against Nottingham Panthers at the NIC. |
The 4-0 win saw Sheffield move up to fourth in the league. |
Steelers had previously beaten Panthers five times out of seven so far this season. |
Tonight, they needed a boost. |
And they go it from Westerling 26 seconds into the second period with the game's first goal. |
Steelers' 40th League game of the season looked like being a memorable one for the visitors when Westerling got his second, this time in the first exchanges of the second period. |
The 35-year-old Swede got his hat-trick at 45;20, to pretty much seal Steelers' superiority. |
With just under five minutes remaining, Andreas Valdix scored an empty netter to ensure a morale-boosting 4-0 shout out win. |
It was Steelers' first shut out, domestically, since the 8-0 destruction on Belfast Giants last month. |
Gray Television (NYSE: GTN) has repurchased 883,200 shares of its own common stock at 20 cents per plus commission. The Atlanta broadcast group made the repurchase Nov. 21 on the open market. Gray’s board previously authorized the action, and Gray can buy another 279,200 shares of common or Class A stock under the same... |
On Nov. 7, Gray got a delisting warning from the New York Stock Exchange because its share price had been less than a dollar for more than 30 days. Gray was given 10 days to map out a game plan to meet NYSE requirements, and six months to do so. |
Gray dipped down to 18 cents Nov. 20 and pushed back up over 30 cents in the days that followed the repurchase. |
Dunkin’ Donuts Plans Return to U.K. |
Dunkin’ Brands (NASDAQ:DNKN) said Thursday it signed franchise deals that will bring its namesake restaurants to London, as the company moves forward with expansion plans. |
The Canton, Mass.-based chain, which also owns Baskin-Robbins, signed franchise agreements with Court Group and DDMG to develop 50 Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in Greater London over the next five years. |
The expansion into the U.K. marks Dunkin’ Donuts’ return after leaving the country in the mid-nineties. |
Dunkin’ also said it’s in advanced talks with other franchise partners. Those deals would bring the five-year total to 150 U.K. restaurants. |
The restaurants there will offer coffees, teas, frozen drinks, and espresso-based beverages, as well as donuts, muffins, croissants and sandwiches. Regional menu items will also be featured, the company said. |
In an interview last year, Dunkin’ Brands CEO Nigel Travis told the Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper, that he believed Dunkin’ Donuts’ breakfast items, donuts and “slightly milder” coffee could appeal to people who visit Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) or McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD). |
Dunkin’ already has 100 of its Baskin-Robbins ice cream shops in the U.K. |
“We feel there is significant opportunity for Dunkin’ Donuts in the UK, and we have had a tremendous response from potential franchisees interested in developing the brand across the country,” Giorgio Minardi, President of Dunkin’ Brands International, said in a statement. |
Dunkin’ Donuts will compete in the U.K. with rival Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (NYSE:KKD), which has been in the country for several years. |
Dunkin’s latest move to expand internationally follows an announced return to Russia, which it exited in 1999. The company unveiled plans in 2010 to open 20 restaurants in Moscow. |
The chain has also begun to expand domestically into western U.S. states, planning a return to California starting in 2015. |
Shares closed Wednesday at $43.76, up 31.9% so far this year. |
The last episode of The Office brought in big ratings for NBC last night. The series finale marked the sitcom’s best performance in a year and a half. |
From 9-10:15 p.m. ET, the series finale of “The Office” (3.0/8 in 18-49, 5.7 million viewers overall) filed the show’s highest 18-49 rating in 16 months, since the January 19, 2012 telecast also did a 3.0, and matched the “Office” high since November 3, 2011 (3.2). In total viewers, the 5.7 million is also the show’s b... |
For the 9-10 p.m. ET hour, the “Office” finale ranked #1 among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-34 and men 18-34 and tied with “Idol” for #1 in men 18-49. |
From 8-9 p.m. ET, a retrospective episode of “The Office” (2.1/7 in 18-49, 4.4 million viewers overall) earned NBC’s top 18-49 rating in the hour, excluding sports, since a special “Voice” ran in the time period on November 8, 2012. In total viewers, it’s NBC’s biggest overall audience in the hour since January 31. In ... |
From 10:15-11 p.m. ET, “Hannibal” averaged a 1.1/3 in 18-49 and 2.5 million viewers overall, matching the show’s 18-49 rating of the prior two weeks and equaling its highest since April 18. “Hannibal” is a highly time-shifted series, with last week’s telecast growing by 66 percent going from these next-day “live plus s... |
What do you think? Did you watch the last episode of The Office? Did you think more people would watch? |
On this episode of MashTalk, it's all Apple, all day. |
We discuss Apple's recent event, its new recycling robot Liam, the iPhone SE, updates to the Apple Watch and the smaller iPad Pro. |
Plus, Six Colors Editor-In-Chief and Apple expert Jason Snell joins us to offer his insight on Apple's new products and the event itself. Congrats to Jason for becoming MashTalk's first repeat guest! |
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As of Monday night, there were 610 Mahoning County residents without power. Youngstown was hit hardest, with 300 reported power outages. Canfield Township had 146 residents still in the dark. |
The Dominic Marchionda-owned Flats at Wick LLC has failed to keep up on payments toward the property’s $5.5 million loan, new court filings show. |
The plan would discontinue recycling drop-off services in several incorporated municipalities where the proposed curbside recycling carts would duplicate services. |
On June 25, 1971, MGM held the premiere for Gordon Parks' adaptation of Shaft in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Reporter's original review of the R-rated detective film is below. |
Shaft, a Sterling Silliphant-Roger Lewis Production for MGM release, is about a black private eye in Harlem. Produced by Joel Freeman and directed by Gordon Parks, it stars Richard Roundtree. It will surely do very well this summer financially, especially with black audiences, both in its first runs and in later multip... |
But Shaft is not a good movie. In many ways, it resembles last year's Cotton Comes to Harlem, which also seemed aimed at black audiences unused to seeing their urban experience portrayed on the screen; and its problems are similar. Like Ossie Davis, who directed Cotton, Parks doesn't reveal any feeling for his material... |
If Shaft were indeed a hard-hitting, fast-paced, action-packed detective thriller, as it was meant to be, then it would be an acceptable entertainment. But it isn't. |
It doesn't build any rhythms (the editor was Hugh A. Robertson), and it doesn't begin to explore the interest and the uniqueness of its setting (the screenwriters were Ernest Tidyman, who wrote the novel on which it was based, and John D. F. Black). It's a formula picture, and it's the wrong formula both for its subjec... |
There are things to admire in Shaft. Emmanuel Gerard's art direction and Robert Drumheller's set decoration are very fine. Urs Furrer's Metrocolo photography reveals some feeling for the New York locations. Charles Cioffi gives a good performance as a police lieutenant, and Moses Gunn gives an amusing, sinister one as ... |
But the essential problem — a deep one — remains. What Tidyman and Black, and Parks, have done is taken the conventions of a genre — the detective movie — and tried to transfer them whole to what is, in effect, an almost totally different cultural setting than the one for which they were designed. |
Just at the time when American movies have been surfeited with "anti-war" statements, and when they are in desperate need of stars and stories to illuminate another area of national concern — black experience — they offer up the same cliches as in detective pictures made with white stars and stories. |
Roundtree might have been better — hipper, more jive-talking — instead of a bad parody of a white detective hero. But the formula is not flexible enough to do justice to a black militant leader. As played by Christopher St. John, a reportedly fine stage actor, he's as uninteresting as any young white leading man. |
[Updated on September 19, 2012] Wednesday's Justice Department inspector general report criticizing 14 ATF and Justice Department employees relates to a months-long investigation into a controversial gun sting that allowed hundreds of weapons to reach violent Mexican drug cartels. |
The controversial Operation Fast and Furious, which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began in 2009, came to the public's attention after guns linked to the program were found at the site where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed. |
Brian A. Terry was fatally shot in the Arizona desert, just north of the Mexico border, on December 14, 2010, after he confronted a group of bandits believed to be preying on illegal immigrants. Nearly three months later, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, announced that two weapons found near the scene were traced to an A... |
Fast and Furious was intended to build cases against Mexican drug cartels and the smuggling networks supplying them by allowing illegally purchased firearms to go from the United States into Mexico. In the operation, "straw buyers" - people who buy the weapons for others who might not legally be allowed to buy them - w... |
The idea was that once the weapons in Mexico were traced to the straw purchasers, the smuggling network could be brought down. But the ATF lost track of more than 1,000 firearms, and some guns weren't recovered until they turned up at crime scenes, both in Mexico and, as the Terry case illustrated, the United States. |
Once the operation was in the public spotlight, Mexican officials and critics in the United States called the operation a failure, saying it exacerbated the longstanding problem of U.S. weapons getting into the hands of Mexican cartels. |
Criticism was heaped on the ATF and its parent agency, the Department of Justice. Congressional committees began investigating last year, and Democrats and Republicans have been at odds over who knew what about the operation, and when. |
The House Oversight Committee has sought documents that would show why the Justice Department decided to withdraw as inaccurate a February 2011 letter sent to Congress that said top officials had only recently learned about Fast and Furious. |
The Justice Department has turned over thousands of documents during the investigation. However, Attorney General Eric Holder refused to turn over materials containing internal deliberations. In June, the Republican-led House voted to hold the attorney general in contempt. |
December 14, 2010: Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry is killed in the Arizona desert. Two guns found at the site are later linked to the ATF Fast and Furious program. |
January 2011: Congress begins asking questions about the ATF program. |
February 4, 2011: Responding to an inquiry from Sen. Charles Grassley, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich writes that top officials had only recently learned about the ATF gun-running program, but that nothing improper was done in the operation. Weich also asserts that any allegation that the ATF knowingly allowed... |
March 3, 2011: An ATF whistleblower tells "CBS Evening News" that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to go into Mexico. Just minutes before the broadcast, ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson issues a statement saying the agency is forming a panel to "review the bureau's current firearms trafficking strategies employed b... |
March 4, 2011: CNN reports that Grassley wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder complaining that the ATF was "stonewalling" his investigation into the matter. CNN also reports that, according to Grassley, ATF agents told his staff "the agency allowed the sale of assault rifles to known and suspected straw purch... |
May 2011: Holder tells the House Judiciary Committee that he "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." |
June 15, 2011: Rep. Darrell Issa alleges Weich's claim that the ATF never knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to straw purchasers, who then transported them into Mexico, is deceiving. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and other congressmen allege that although it is techni... |
Also, ATF whistle-blowers testify before Issa's committee. Peter Forcelli, a supervisor at the ATF Phoenix field office, says Fast and Furious was "a colossal failure of leadership." An agent, Lee Casa, tells the committee that ATF supervisors brushed off several agents' concerns over letting guns go. Another agent, Jo... |
August 30, 2011: Melson, the ATF's acting director, is reassigned to a position in the Justice Department. Also, the U.S. attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke, resigns. Burke's office had given legal guidance to the ATF relating to Fast and Furious. |
September 7, 2011: Holder says in a news conference that Fast and Furious "was clearly a flawed enforcement effort," and adds that investigations will find involvement did not reach "the upper levels" of the Justice Department. |
October 12, 2011: Congressional investigators issue a subpoena for communications from several top Justice Department officials, including Holder, relating to Fast and Furious. Meanwhile, Republicans say that previously released documents show that Holder knew about Fast and Furious much earlier than he indicated to th... |
November 1, 2011: Lanny Breuer, an assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, tells a Senate judiciary subcommittee that he first learned of the tactic of allowing illegally purchased guns to leave shops in April 2010. That tactic, he said, was executed during a 2006-2007 ATF program, called Operati... |
Breuer says he should have warned Holder and other Justice officials about the 2006-2007 tactics, but failed to do so. He said he also failed to recognize that the same tactics used in 2006-2007 were being used again in Fast and Furious. |
November 8, 2011: Holder tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that the tactic allowing illegal guns to be smuggled into Mexico "should never have happened, and it must never happen again." |
December 2, 2011: The Justice Department withdraws its February 4 letter to Grassley, saying the letter contains inaccuracies. |
Also, ahead of a December 8 House Judiciary Committee hearing at which Holder is to testify, 1,400 pages demanded by investigators are released. The documents show, among other things, that Justice officials struggled for days over how to write the February letter to Grassley. |
December 7, 2011: Grassley calls on Breuer to resign, saying he misled Congress by saying he didn't know in February that the assertions in the February 4 letter were wrong. Grassley says documents show that Breuer should have been aware that the letter contained false assertions, due to his knowledge of the 2006-2007 ... |
December 8, 2011: Holder tells the House Judiciary Committee that he won't resign over the Fast and Furious controversy, and that he doesn't think any of his top aides should step down. He says the operation relied on "unacceptable tactics" and was "inexcusable," but he says that Justice Department officials have coope... |
January 31, 2012: Democrats on the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee issue a report saying the panel has found no evidence showing that top Justice officials "conceived or directed" Fast and Furious. The report from the Democrats, who are a minority on the Republican-led panel, places blame for the progra... |
February 1, 2012: Terry's parents, Josephine and Kent Terry Sr., file a $25 million wrongful death claim in an Arizona court against the federal government. |
February 2, 2012: Holder tells the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that firings of Justice officials who oversaw Fast and Furious are likely to come in the next six months. |
Meanwhile, Issa threatens to begin a contempt proceeding against Holder unless he releases more documents. |
May 18, 2012: Issa and other House GOP lawmakers send Holder demanding that he release the full amount of materials that Issa's committee asked for previously. Although the letter acknowledges that there's been some cooperation on the investigation, it emphasizes that House Republicans still want answers in two key are... |
June 19, 2012: A showdown meeting between Holder and Issa fails to resolve their dispute over documents. Issa says that unless at least some of the documents are handed over before the committee meets June 20, it would vote on a measure that would send a contempt vote to the full House. |
June 20, 2012: President Barack Obama asserts executive privilege over some of the documents sought by Issa's panel. The White House move means the Department of Justice can withhold some of the documents. |
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee votes 23-17 (with all of the panel's Republicans voting yes, and all of the panel's Democrats voting no) to recommend that the full House vote on whether to cite Holder for contempt of Congress. The vote by the full House could happen on the week of June 25. |
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