Graph showing the percentage of and where foreign born soldiers come from to serve in the U.S. military.
600 soldiers re-enlisted in the United States military and were naturalized on the 4th of July at Camp Victory in Baghdad. Currently, the number of foreign born in the military is consistent with historical precedent. According to Emilio T. González, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the foreign born composed half of all military recruits by the 1840s and constituted 20 percent of the 1.5 million servicemen in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Even more revealing is considering that of these 600 soldiers re-enlisting, they come from 54 nations, they are aged 19 - 51 years old, and they include at least one Palestinian refugee.
The re-enlistees are sounding like a coalition force.