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A U.S. FOREIGN LEGION

	One way of getting military manpower is to allow foreigners
to enlist in our armed forces with eventual citizenship as a reward.
We can impose rather high qualifications and require a rather long
enlistment, say six years, which will keep the numbers down so that
we can see how the experiment is going.  It would have to be decided
whether to take men with families and whether to give them some
priority in bringing in wives married during or after the enlistment.
We would get intelligent manpower for the army and other services,
and we would get better than average citizens at the end.  Perhaps
the deal would be something like four years in combat arms followed
by two years in a technical job that would provide a marketable
skill.  Also after four years, they might be eligible for OCS.