[hinckley buzzard]

What the use of IRR tells me is that the military is undermanned and can't recruit sufficient new and qualified personal.

The guy is an experienced sargeant. You don't "recruit" NCO's, very possibly in a critical MOS.

[informavoracious]

He was a photojournalist. Doubtful that’s a critical MOS. Maybe he just really wanted to be a modern journalist, you know, the kind where he himself is the NEWS...