The two are not mutually exclusive. A neighbor of my parents got off the boat from China at the age of nineteen and was inducted almost immediately. I had a guy who worked for me who was a veteran of the US Army and a veteran of a Warsaw Pact army (Hungary). He was drafted within months of landing here. Both achieved citizenship before their service commitment was finished. Both became fine aAmericans.
Let the Veteran speak? LoL the other guy said he served 20 years.... Dude said he came thru Ellis island?> WTF?
The two are not mutually exclusive. A neighbor of my parents got off the boat from China at the age of nineteen and was inducted almost immediately. I had a guy who worked for me who was a veteran of the US Army and a veteran of a Warsaw Pact army (Hungary). He was drafted within months of landing here. Both achieved citizenship before their service commitment was finished. Both became fine aAmericans.