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.
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.