The effort is designed to show support for legal immigration of more Afghans who worked alongside American forces during the war overseas.
The executive order cited Afghanistan's poor vetting measures and a visa overstay rate as reasons for the ban.
The service is also shipping more new recruits off to basic military training on a weekly basis than it did two years ago, officials said.
How an unconventional decision to accept a higher proportion of recruits scoring in the bottom 30% played a role in achieving recruiting targets.
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