White House ordering selective reserve units to active duty.

[G_j]

the White House ordering selective reserve units to active duty.

[Walleye]

1. Well he needs to start a war. He hasn't killed enough yet

[Roland99]

2. Wait. What?

[Roland99]

3. Brian Karem tweet

Link to tweet

[Roland99]

4. Drug war

Lovely

[Botany]

7. Counter narcotic operation

Oh please. I thought it would be to help in the fight on C-19.

[kimbutgar]

13. He did a great interview on Stephanie Miller today.

[underpants]

5. It's an 8 year contract

Regardless of how much time you serve directly.

During Gulf 1 we had guys living in our day room who got plucked back up and sent to Germany

[Cirque du So-What]

14. I missed the first gulf war by a hair's breadth

Personal & professional obligations were stretched to the limit, and something had to give. I transferred from SELRES to the Individual Ready Reserve one month before Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. A few months later, my former crewmates were deployed to the Persian Gulf.

[Ms. Toad]

6. That order is from more than a month ago (March 27)

And it was to address COVID related assistance connected to health care.

[cwydro]

8. Thank you.

[G_j]

9. Trumps letter is dated April 30

see Brian Karen’s tweet above

[Ms. Toad]

10. Follow your link and read the date. n/t

[G_j]

11. yes, I took that link down

I was unable to post the letter here

[quaint]

15. Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/text-letter-president-speaker-house-representatives-president-senate-72/

National Security & Defense

Issued on: April 30, 2020

Dear Madam Speaker: (Dear Mr. President

Effective today, pursuant to section 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I am authorizing the Secretary of Defense to order units and individual members of the Selected Reserve to active duty to augment active component forces for the effective conduct of “Enhanced Department of Defense Counternarcotic Operation in the Western Hemisphere.” This authority is necessary to ensure the Department of Defense can properly conduct operations required to meet our evolving security challenges.

I have enclosed a copy of the Executive Order I issued.

Sincerely,

DONALD J. TRUMP

[Ms. Toad]

16. That's a different than was in the OP.

(After following the OP's link to the March 27 order, and posting these comments, I did see another poster post to this letter)

[Jamastiene]

12. Wonder if this is wag the dog or to forceably remove those of us not part of the temper tantrum

blankie (gun) carrying protestors from our home to go make the uber rich some more money and damn our health.

It cannot be anything good. Fucking sociopath Trump is doing it. How many fucking people does he want to kill exactly? Maybe I should not ask.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. "selective reserve?" That sounds foreboding.