If a state is granted a peaceful withdraw from the United States of America to create its own new government, the military personnel from or in that particular state should be able to choose weather to stay with the United States of America or that particular state.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."