As US citizens and soldiers, members of any of the Indian Nations who served in any branch of the US military are entitled to all of the benefits of any non-Indian who served at the same time.

Lox, the most well known group of "Indian Code Talkers" were Navaho...as an Army veteran, my own read on why they are the best known is that they were in the Marine Corps, and everyone knows that every Marine squad has its own PR agent. (BG) There were a number of other nations whose members participated in this program, which basically involved using native languages (which no member of the Axis could understand) to communicate by radio.

For us non-Brits, could someone summarize the Gurkha issue (or provide a link to an unbiased summary)?