Would I have to serve in a Texas military?
TNM has not proposed a service requirement. Texas already has its own forces: the Texas Military Department, made up of the Texas Army National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard and the Texas State Guard.
If you serve in the U.S. military now
Texans in the U.S. armed forces would have their options worked out in the separation. Service in the U.S. military does not depend on U.S. citizenship today: more than 8,000 non-citizens enlist every year, and citizens of countries tied to the United States by treaty serve as well.
The bottom line
Whether an independent Texas ever asks anything of its young people in uniform is a question for Texans and their own Legislature, not for Washington. What Texas builds next is ours to decide.
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