From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 23 2006 - 16:15:58 PST
Sounds like the Hmong and Montangards of Vietnam.
Joe
--- Nigel Hay MILWEB <nigel@milweb.net> wrote:
> Her Brittanic Majesties armed forces have of course
> for many years used non
> British nationals in their own regiment - the
> Ghurkas (from Nepal)- I
> believe thay have won more Victoria Crosses than any
> other regiment since
> the inception of the honour. Many of these fearless
> warriors have settled in
> the UK and prove to be a shining example of courtesy
> in civilian life. Their
> exemplary "out of camp" behaviour (and inherrent
> inability/refusal to get
> into fights in bars) puts the average squadie to
> shame. Shorter than
> average, I have several times watched platoons of
> gurkas getting inot the
> high cargo bed of Bedford and AWD trucks and thought
> they must have it off
> to an art form, as the trucks were designed with
> taller chaps in mind.
> (...impressive turnaround of posting to include
> relevant military vehicle
> comment you may think!)
>
> NIGEL HAY
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of Sarge
> Sent: 23 January 2006 15:41
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] non-Americans serving in our Armed
> Forces
>
>
> Sarge of course has another story along these lines.
> Back in the very late 70's I worked on top of a
> mountain in what was then
> called West Germany.
> In our post office (APO) we had two USAF enlisted
> Jamaicans working as
> postal technicians.
> Because of the possibility of "NATO Secret"
> information coming through the
> APO system, these Jamaicans were booted out of the
> country. At the same
> time, all US enlisted members who had citizenship in
> non-NATO countries were
> kicked out of all NATO countries and sent back to
> the USA to serve out their
> enlistments.
> I'm not making a judgement here, I'm just reporting
> the story.
> -Sarge
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave J" <sd0044@gwtc.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 1:08 PM
> Subject: [MV] non-Americans serving in our Armed
> Forces
>
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- From:
> "Sonny Heath"
> > > I didn't realize one had to be an American to
> serve in the American
> Armed
> > > Forces.
> > ==============================================
> > Hi Sonny,
> > One doesn't.
> > However currently one does to get a security
> clearance - even at the
> > relatively low level of "secret".
> >
> > This can lead to some interesting concept and
> conflicts.
> >
> > Desert Shield, August 1990, I deployed to the Doha
> Airport, Emirate of
> Qatar
> > with a pretty big bunch of other folks to help set
> up a functional base
> and
> > supply the needs of an F-16 fighter wing that was
> gonna be operating out
> of
> > there. Now the fact that "we" were in ~Qatar~ at
> all was classified
> > "Secret" and we were not to discuss who we were
> (what organization/unit)
> > with ~anybody~ (including our families) not so
> cleared.
> >
> > OK, No big deal -- As you all prolly know, this
> is a standard practice in
> > wartime.
> >
> > Here's the rub -- one of my troops was a
> Austrian citizen serving in the
> > US Air Force while clocking down the required time
> to get her US
> > citizenship. She of course, not being a US
> Citizen, had absolutely no
> > security clearance. So theoretically she also
> couldn't know that she was
> > TDY to our unit and in Qatar ...... Duh !!
> >
> > So would you believe that of all the people there,
> hers was the only set
> of
> > orders ~that I knew of~ whereon her "personal
> copies" that had "unit of
> > assignment" and "duty location" blanked out.
> Even though we had big
> signs
> > all over the area "Welcome to the XXX Tactical
> Fighter Wing
> (Provisional)"
> > and "Welcome to Doha Air Base" all over the area.
> (BTW, the Iraqi Embassy
> to
> > Qatar is line of sight with the Airfield - we
> could observe them -
> observing
> > us with binoculars from their embassy's rooftop.).
> >
> > Sometimes our rules, or the implementation of
> same, are sooooooooooo
> stupid.
> >
> > BTW, she worked harder and smarter than most of
> the troops in my section
> of
> > the unit
> > and stood up as well as any during our daily early
> morning incoming scud
> > attacks during the "storm" portion of the
> operation. I hope she got her
> > citizenship with honors. She earned it.
> >
> > Dave J
> > ===============================
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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