The US has:
Active Duty personnel
Reservists that are under federal command.
National Guard that are under state command unless activated by the President and put under federal command.
Inactive Ready Reserve...you finished your enlistment, but you still have a couple of years(usually 2) where you can be called back into service at any time
So, he’s putting 3000 troops on Active Duty to be deployed somewhere in Eastern Europe, it would appear. You know, to protect NATOs and Europe’s, Eastern Flank because they can’t do it themselves, obviously. So, they get to keep on living their socialist lives, under the security blanket provided by US personnel.
Myself, and all I know, had a 4 year IRR.
I’m guessing they get housed on the east side of Northern Poland in case Wagner etc truly are in Belarus. Or...and this may be pure speculation, that a deal has been struck in its infancy and they are preparing to place troops in Western Ukraine as a protectorate against whatever they give away to Russia.
Next week, if you see “We don’t need the Donbas anyway” articles, then you know this was probably the reason.
I think he’s authorizing the mobilization of up to 3K troops. Doesn’t mean that many will be called to AD. Hell, this late in the FY I’d be surprised if there’s enough money left to do half that.
Colonel, USAF JAGCR (Ret)
Military personnel who are shipped to a hot spot should genuinely be concerned. This is the administration which didn't give a Marine the green light to take out a terrorist. That same terrorist later set off a suicide bomb and killed 12 Marines and a Sailor. Further, there are any number of military hating skunks in Congress who will blabber about matters which could get people in a war zone killed. It's happened before.