The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service on June 7 announced a policy to account for military service in the United States of illegal immigrants or their family members when considering whether they should be deported from the country, FoxNews reported. The policy formalizes the directive issued last month…
I am a member of the Illinois National Guard and am a 25A Signal Second Lieutenant. There are more than 20 of us Russian speakers in Illinois, we have our own community and a lot of connections here. So, I came to the US in 2016 when I won the green card.…
President Donald Trump has signed a decree barring transgender people from serving in the military, except in "special cases." The White House said in a statement that the ministers of defense and homeland security “have concluded that individuals previously diagnosed with gender dysfunctions ...
If this bill is approved, then for the first time in US history, women will be drafted into military service. The National Defense Authorization Act bill received 85 votes for and 13 against. Republican thoughts on whether American women should serve in the military...
Latvia announced that it will not follow the example of Lithuania and will not restore the conscription. According to the Latvian political strategist Jurgis Liepinieks, it is necessary not only to train all men aged 18-55 and be able to mobilize within 40 hours. Women are the same. The thing is…
The Lithuanian authorities plan to resume conscription for military service, said the country's President Dalia Grybauskaite. “It is necessary to temporarily renew compulsory military service for a period of five years,” she told reporters. The National Defense Council proposes that for exercises lasting 9 months every year...
According to the document, in 2015, regular conscriptions of citizens for urgent military service will take place in April-May and October-November. For compulsory military service, men fit for health reasons will be called up for military service in peacetime, male citizens of Ukraine, who by the day of departure ...