This is completely false. Once one leaves the active military component, you are placed in the Individual Ready Reserve status for between 2-4 years, depending on how long you served. While in this status, you don't report for duty, training, or anything like that, but there is a chance that you could be recalled to active duty. However, this activation is currently not going on. And usually before there is an activation, the offer chances for people to be voluntarily recalled, which would provide bonuses.
Maybe enlistments are up because the press did such an outstanding job in publicizing the fact that the military wasn't meeting its quotas that many great Americans enlisted.
Think it's possible?
I hope so.
Ok, first off, I'm retired NAVY and my son is a MARINE witht he 3rdMAW, I drive a pickup and it has a "W '04" sticker onit along side my NRA tiscker, so yes I AM A CONSERVATIVE, and FIERCLY PROUD OF IT, so don't be haten...
http://irrsoldier.blogspot.com/ However, they do activate IRR's, just not as rigourously.