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Citation maximum age is 42. Story about someone joining at the age of 36.

There are some great US Army programs to become a US citizen. Any foreigner can sign up and fight for America and earn their citizenship in the process. One of the programs i know of is MAVNI, mostly for people who know languages other than english and people who know medicine.

http://www.army.com/enlist/mavni.html
http://www.goarmy.com/info/mavni
http://www.defense.gov/news/mavni-fact-sheet.pdf

I believe the main giveaway that stormtroopers are clones is Princess Leia's line in IV, as Luke enters her cell in a trooper outfit:

"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"

Because there aren't height requirements to join the army.

No, all men must register with the SS, even if they are not able-bodied.

According to the Army, those who are "incarcerated, or hospitalized or institutionalized for medical reasons" or "continually confined to a residence, hospital, or institution", are not required to register.

I respect your opinion and you raise important points. Thank you for your reply, this type of discussion can be stirring to the emotions. But this specific scenario under discussion is about employees of "NASA's JPL" and it is no way the typical employer-employee rights argument (in my opinion).
I have do very different opinions about employment privacy rights in other places of employment that do not involve real Nation Security concerns. I believe that JPL is NOT one of these 'other places'.

When I say "Your rights to privacy CANNOT be more important than National Security." I wrote it IN THE CONTEXT of the discussion of NASA's JPL employees protesting their now mandatory (and soon to be routine) background clearance evaluations. This is not meant to be a free standing globally universal statement. It is about WORKING AT THE 'JPL'.

These employees have access to buildings containing National Security Secrets and Technologies (even if they do not have actual clearances for them specifically they WORK THERE and are in the building).
This is NOT a political discussion, nor does it have anything to do with President Bush. (although several threads have tried to make it political)

This is about scientists with access to advanced and export-restricted missile technologies being miffed because they must reveal standard invasive personal information background questions and the requirements to submit very personal data for the clearance battery of psychological assessment tests.

For the record, I HAVE worked for the US Postal Service, and I have been in the US Military. I can say that what "psychometric tests" I have taken do suck and are not fun (and are probably not anywhere as in-depth as what JPL is likely to have).

I believe JPL employees will lose their arguments for their privacy 'rights' because they work for the government and they work with stuff that our enemies would pay top dollar for. This is NOT about being homosexual, or about race, or about gender, or smoking pot in college, or having sexual preferences that are not the average, whatever... Truthfully, I do not believe that those particular items matter to clearance that much nor would they likely cause you to lose your job (unless they are illegal), but what DOES MATTER is the failure to disclose the information to the security reviewers. The WILLINGNESS to be deceptive about the disclosure of these personal bits of information IS THE POINT. These procedures are likely aimed to ferret out possible foreign agents and any Americans and/or Legal Foreign Nationals who work for JPL and might fit the well-known profiles of those who engage in espionage (or are statistically likely to engage in it).
Look into basic guidelines of getting clearances: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/l/blsecmenu.htm http://www.army.com/articles/june_clearance_guidelines.html

Tracking the download down on the army.mil search was useless. A web search with http://vivisomo.com/ got me the pertinent links, should have used it from the get-go.
Don't know anything about how one version is different from another but you can get 'em here:
AA:Special Forces (Direct Action) Vesion 2.5
http://www.army.com/games/aa/

America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) v2.7
http://www.americasarmy.com/downloads/

jscheelntsu, you aren't making prisoner pyramids because you are hypocritically sitting on your butt in front of your computer here in the US demanding others fight a war you refuse to fight yourself.

Why aren't you in Iraq "keeping terrorism over there instead of here" and "fighting those who hate our freedom" (those quotes are from your guys)? You are in luck. I know how to hook you up with recruiter from the US Army. We can fix this error and get you to Iraq very quickly. Just click this link...

http://www.army.com/

And everything you wrote in the first paragraph is wrong. I never said ALL right wing Christians do anything. You made up a strawman argument, claiming I made sweeping generalizations I never typed. MANY right wing christians do exactly what I said they do, though, and you know it.

Here's a transcript of CNN coverage during Lyndie England's prosecution...

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good evening.

More government witnesses appear to be helping prosecutors build their case against pregnant reservist Lyndie England. She sat stone faced listening to testimony, including some testimony from another guard from her Reserve unit who testified by phone from an undisclosed location.

Specialist Joseph Darby became the whistleblower who turned his friends in. He said it was a hard call, but he told the court it was the moral thing to do.

Darby testified he was given a CD with photos from fellow guard Charles Graner, identified by prosecutors as a ringleader. These photos by now very familiar: Lyndie England holding a detainee on a leash; a pyramid of naked prisoners; some posed to simulate a sex act.

At the time, according to Darby, Graner explained one photo of a hooded prisoner chained to a cell like this. "The Christian in me knows it was wrong, but the corrections officer in me can't help but love to make a grown man urinate on himself."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/06/ldt .00.html

The TLD is an important piece of the identifier, IMHO.

Identifier for what?

slashdot.com
microsoft.net
usps.gov
http://www.army.gov/
http://www.army.com/

Thats right, the .biz domains are 99% spam sites, so that does help things. .edu is pretty pure, .gov is pretty pure, but they like .com like everybody else does. .org is fairly worthless, and if it were an important identifier people would use it more, but .com is what everybody except a slashdotter things is a web address. What about .info or .name? Or .museum?

TLDs _may_ be a useful identifier, but pretty much everybody has to buy most all of the others or sue people to protect their internet name.

As I have said for a very long time, lets do away with TLDs. The only exception might be to make all internet sites, including those in the US (gasp), to use the two letter country identifier to assist in commerce and whatnot. I find it very annoying to look to buy something online and go to a .com address and then find out that it is not in the US (my country).

Good riddance to TLDs. The sooner the better.