How Should Marines and all Service Members React to the Refugee Crisis?

Negative. It's a no go by sheer numbers. Money numbers (so in debt America couldn't afford peanut butter and Ramen without help), job numbers (because they've been shredding Germany in protest of having free food and safety but no work), numbers of people (where will we put them?), and most important, unidentified number of hostile personnel. Countys taking on refugees are having problems with sanitation, rape, crime, violence, and security. Do we want those problems here? How would we control them? There's still a war on, and our defense budget was recently hacked to pieces, with draw downs on the way. Who will provide security? When the fighting starts, who will quell an uprising? We are a shining city on a hill. However, we've been at war doing humanitarian crap for the last 15 years. Sorry sir, but Mr. Foster cannot support.

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Who gives a crap what he thinks. If I go find another LT that disagrees with him does that settle it? You act as though his opinion counts more than anyone else's.

With an open heart but cautious mind. Anyone touting our current vetting process for refugees as adequate is beyond naive. We all know the underpaid government employees doing this work are masters of time management and strive to do the best job they can while working 12 hour shifts (dripping with sarcasm). We actually have no true way to vet Syrian refugees, as no databases exist with information on the population. The databases that may contain data (FBI, CIA, NSA) are only checked if there is reasonable suspicion and certainly not for every single refugee. We should absolutely be taking in refugees, but the system needs to be greatly improved with major oversight. As is, the government hides this program from public view as much as possible.

I think we should take care of Syrian refugees the same way we took care of the Iraqi refugees, by toppling their shitty government, exterminating the rats that live there, and helping them to to rebuild their own country.

It makes me worried because we don't know who we are letting in our home.

They should react the way their conscience dictates. Regardless of military affiliation we are citizens first and as such have the right to criticize or endorse the policies of our government. Washington's letter to the New York legislature 26 June 1775 says it best "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen". We may not always agree on what the correct path is, but we all have the right to form and share our opinions based on what we believe.