Who are the Selected Reserve?
Who the hell knows. I can see if he was mobilizing/activating a reserve Patriot Missile battery or some other MOS that is essential to whatever plan they’ve dreamed up.
All I know is, that under the current command structure and who’s in charge, this ain’t good.
There are a few levels of reserve forces in the military:
1) Select Reserves - these folks continue to ‘drill’ on a monthly basis and maintain their physical and military readiness. Most are assigned to units that augment active duty units, and also do two weeks of active duty training with these units annually.
2) Individual Ready Reserve - these are individuals that are no longer drill on weekend or assigned to units. They do have military expertise but are 2nd level (down the chain) if needed for recall to active. Since they don’t drill, they can only earn retirement points doing correspondence courses.