Army Recalling Thousands Who Left Service

[PaDUer]

Army Recalling Thousands Who Left Service

Jun 29, 8:08 PM (ET)
By ROBERT BURNS


WASHINGTON (AP) - Digging deeper for help in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is recalling to active duty about 5,600 people who recently left the service and still have a reserve obligation.

In a new sign of the strain the insurgency in Iraq has put on the U.S. military, Army officials said Tuesday the involuntary callups will begin in July and run through December. It is the first sizable activation of the Individual Ready Reserve since the 1991 Gulf War, though several hundred people have voluntarily returned to service since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

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The Army is pinpointing certain skills in short supply, like medical specialists, military police, engineers, transportation specialists and logistics experts. Those selected for recall will be given at least 30 days' notice to report for training, an Army statement said.

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The men and women recalled from the Individual Ready Reserve will be assigned to Army Reserve and National Guard units that have been or soon will be mobilized for deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan, unless they successfully petition for exemption based on medical or other limitations.

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Entire story--
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040630/D83H09000.html

[Hokie]

1. I hope my Repuke friend gets called up

My co-worker is a republiCON who served in Gulf War I. It would be surely poetic justice if he got called up to go to the friggin' desert again to serve the First Idiot and his fiasco in Iraq. Please let it happen.

[PaDUer]

2. Give him a call..bet he's shitting his pants!

Wonder if bunnypants will be called??

"Members of Congress were notified Tuesday and a formal Army announced was scheduled for Wednesday.

Those in the Individual Ready Reserve are former enlisted soldiers and officers who have some nonactive-duty military service obligation remaining, under terms they signed when they signed on but who chose not to fulfill it in the Guard or Reserve."

[Sporadicus]

6. If You Were So Inclined

you could fabricate some Department of Defense-letterhead stationery and write him a letter: 'Greetings, Mr. Freeper...' :evilgrin:

[meisje]

3. oops! I just shot myself in the foot!!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. And yet practically every 19-25 year-old I talk to does not

believe there will be a draft next year.

When they are calling back people who are already out, they are admitting they have a severe manpower shortage. The draftis the only way they can get out of it.

[seemslikeadream]

5. Please this is a dupe

Thanks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=653108&mesg_id=653108

[PaDUer]

7. Is a bit different,

states when and what who they're looking at.
Oh, and check the freeper reactions to this--
Army Recalling Thousands Who Left Service
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162724/posts#14

[Rex]

8. I was 'released' last October from the IRR.

This is getting crazy!

[Moderator]

9. duplicate

Please continue the earlier thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=653108