Bronco_Beerslug
10-01-2004, 04:13 PM
And the "back-door draft" continues. Must be very hard on these people who have already served their country, returned to their children, wives, husbands, mothers and fathers and the American way of life only to be told they must go fight in a country that didn't declare war on us, attack us or even was a threat to attack us.
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By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, now mobilizing 5,600 former soldiers from a rarely used personnel pool to go to Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), plans to summon a similar number next year for duty in those war zones, a senior official said on Friday.
The Army also said it plans to step up recruitment efforts to try to meet goals to sign up 80,000 new soldiers for the regular Army and 22,000 for the Army Reserve in the fiscal year that began on Friday. The Army recruiting command's chief acknowledged the wars were deterring some potential recruits.
To plug shortfalls in certain skills in units being deployed, the Army has tapped the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), made up of 111,000 people who have completed voluntary military commitments and have returned to civilian life but remain eligible to be mobilized in a national emergency.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041001/ts_nm/iraq_usa_troops_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480
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By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, now mobilizing 5,600 former soldiers from a rarely used personnel pool to go to Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), plans to summon a similar number next year for duty in those war zones, a senior official said on Friday.
The Army also said it plans to step up recruitment efforts to try to meet goals to sign up 80,000 new soldiers for the regular Army and 22,000 for the Army Reserve in the fiscal year that began on Friday. The Army recruiting command's chief acknowledged the wars were deterring some potential recruits.
To plug shortfalls in certain skills in units being deployed, the Army has tapped the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), made up of 111,000 people who have completed voluntary military commitments and have returned to civilian life but remain eligible to be mobilized in a national emergency.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041001/ts_nm/iraq_usa_troops_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480