Army Expects Further Involuntary Troop Call-Up

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040630/ts_nm/iraq_usa_reserve_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands more former soldiers could be ordered to Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) in addition to 5,600 reservists already set to be called back into active-duty service, the Army said on Wednesday.

The Army is tapping into the Individual Ready Reserve, a rarely used pool now numbering 111,000 former soldiers who remain eligible to be called to active duty for years after completing their voluntary Army commitment and returning to civilian life. Many have been out of uniform for years.


"I would think that there's going to be soldiers who, yes, will be shocked. But I would say that the majority of the soldiers in the IRR today understand that they are in the Army," Col. Debra Cook, head of the Army's Human Resources Command, told a briefing.


These soldiers will begin to receive mobilization orders on July 6, said Robert Smiley, an Army official dealing with training, readiness and mobilization.

[UpInArms]

1. who needs a draft,

when you have so many willing "volunteers"?

/sarcasm

[bluestateguy]

2. I have a question about this

What if a veteran on the IRR list is fat and out of shape? Would the Penatgon sign him up anyway? Couldn't someone who just got out of the armed forces just put on a lot of weight, stop exercising or smoke some weed to get out of serving?

[leftchick]

3. at this point I believe....

you need to be in a wheelchair before they won't take you.

[Rebellious Republican]

4. I would'nt be so sure, there is always a desk job that would free

up some other able bodied soldier to go off and lose some limbs so they to can take their turn at a desk job so some other able bodied soldier can go off and loose some limbs to take their turn at a .....
repeat and repeat often.

:argh:

[leftchick]

8. so sad and true RR....

The second I pushed enter on my post I realised the bush cabal will use every single unrich soul on this earth for their eternal wars...
:(

[cliss]

7. I talked with a friend of mine yesterday,

and she just found out her dad has been called up. He just left for a 1-year tour of Iraq.

She was so surprised. Her dad is in his late 50's. He's become a couch potato. He drinks beer so he has a real big gut now.

She was joking that they might not have a shirt big enough to fit his stomach!!!

What the hell is RumsFailed thinking? Are they just using them as target practice?

[BrotherBuzz]

5. If this info is current, Bush* has a blank check to call up to 30,000 IRR

Congress can shut off the spigot (sadly, not likely).

<snip>
Selected Reserve - Call To Active Duty

Section 12304 of 10 USC, authorizes the President, without a prior declaration of war or national
emergency, to order not more than 200,000 members of the Selected Reserve to active duty
involuntarily for any operational mission for not more than 270 days for purposes other than training
under a Presidential Selected Reserve call-up. Up to 30,000 may be members of the Individual Ready
Reserve. The emergency nature of a mobilization may require a rapid capability to assemble and
deploy forces. Therefore, the Selected Reserve must be prepared to mobilize within 24 hours.

This category includes all Guard and Reserve personnel who have Selected Reserve agreements,
whether trained or not, since they would all be subject to mobilization under the 200,000 recall
authority. Those who have not yet completed required training would not be available for
deployment on land outside the United States with their own unit or other units until completion of
training. Active Guard or Reserve members, including those on full-time National Guard duty under
32USC 502(f), who are assigned to Guard or Reserve units will deploy with those units upon
mobilization.

The Congress may terminate this call to active duty by a concurrent resolution of both Houses. All
Selected Reservists called to active duty under this law are entitled to all reemployment rights and
benefits provided to individuals under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights
Act of 1994.
<more>

http://www.military.com/Resources/ResourceFileView?file=guard_joining_...

[RobertSeattle]

6. Oh if it were only true...

1LT George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Individual Ready Reserve Member,

We have reviewed your records and due to remaining unfulfilled obligations in the National Guard, you are being mobilized to fulfill critical work skills for the US Army in Iraq.

You will be contacted shortly with additional details about reporting for active duty.



Donald H. Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary

[gratuitous]

9. So, there's potentially 111,000 IRR folks out there

And they're looking to call up 5,600? Someone else would have to tell me, but this doesn't look like much more than a fart in a hurricane - 5,600 to supplement the 130,000 already in Iraq? Haven't twice that many been rendered hors de combat over there?

Or is the trickle that precedes the opening of the sluice gates? Surely the Republican-controlled Congress won't deny Georgie Boy more soldiers for his mad war games, should he whine that he really, really needs them?

[keta11]

10. Didn't the 3rd

3rd Freeper Expetionary Brigade volunteer yet???

BWAAAAH!!!!!!!!!

[leftchick]

11. yuck....

that pic is so gross yet so idiotface* ... :puke:

[uptown ruler]

12. i wonder

how many they will call up...


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