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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

No cause for alarm

CNN.com is carrying an AP story reporting that the US Army is preparing to recall several thousand retired or discharged soldiers to active duty. These people are members of the Individual Ready Reserve, a classification that applies to soldiers who have completed the active and reserve components of their service but not the full eight-year enlistment period. Note that different rules apply to commissioned officers; I'm only talking about enlistees here.
How this applies to me, as a former Army member: It does not. I completed my full eight-year enlistment period in August of 1997. I am no longer part of the IRR and am not subject to recall, involuntary or otherwise. Note that this paragraph in the AP article is not quite correct:
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.
It's not eight years active, it's eight years active plus reserve plus IRR.
So don't worry about me! Instead, worry about 5,600 other citizen-soldiers who thought they'd completed their voluntary service and are now going to be sucked in to this awful situation.
|| Andrew, 11:50 AM || ||

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