Army to Tap IRR For Active Duty
by TChris
The Bush administration's aggressive use of the military not only means that the troops are spread thin, but that replacement troops are hard to find. The temporary solution:
The Army is preparing to notify about 5,600 retired and discharged soldiers who are not members of the National Guard or Reserve that they will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible service in Iraq or Afghanistan, Army officials said Tuesday.
Will they be ready to serve?
Unlike members of the National Guard and Reserve, the individual reservists do not perform regularly scheduled training. Any former enlisted soldier who did not serve at least eight years on active duty is in the Individual Ready Reserve pool, as are all officers who have not resigned their commission.
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