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Time to break out the "IN THE NAVY" commercial by the Village People!
Posted on 03/21/2024 10:29:58 PM PDT by bitt
While the Ukraine conflict rages on and rumors run rampant about France potentially deploying up to 2,000 troops to Ukraine, according to Russian intelligence, the US Army yesterday issued a “Utilization of the Army Retiree Recall Program.”
On March 20th, the US Army Publishing Directorate published ALARACT 017/2024. The title of the form is “Utilization of the Army Retiree Recall Program” and it cites Executive Order 13223 under “References”. Executive Order 13223 is a Bush-era EO from September 14, 2001 titled “Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty and Delegating Certain Authorities to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Transportation.”
The 18-page PDF for the ALARACT, which stands for “All Army Activities”, contains a slide titled “Directorate of Military Personnel Management.” Under the first slide, it states:
“What is a Retiree Recall? -A recalled retiree is a retired Soldier who is ordered to active duty from the Retired Reserve or the retired list under 10 USC 688/688a, 12301(a), or 12301(d) and serves in his or her retired status. Retiree Recall is not an extension of your MRD.
Who can approve a Retiree Recall? -The Assistant Secretary of the Army (ASA) of Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA) is the authorized approver to recall retired Soldiers.”
The ALARACT does reference “peacetime operations”:
1.E. (U) AR 601-10, Management and Recall to Active Duty of Retired Soldiers of the Army In Support of Mobilization and Peacetime Operations.
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My wife was recalled from the IRR in 2003. She was disqualified for her Bipolar condition.
I tried to volunteer (retired E8 in 1992). They would accept me but only for CONUS (stateside) assignment.
“As I out-processed in 1999, I remember the ‘warning’ given by the personnel ‘kid’....’keep your uniform’. There was some regulation that I’d never heard of, which detailed for a period of something like 12 to 24 months, where they could recall you. I brought this up in the office, and no one had dealt with this before. Somewhere in the basement, I still have a duffle-bag with $700 of uniforms probably sitting there.
I’m not sure if that transferred over to the retiree community, and I was in the Coast Guard but we had no stipulations such as that? The Navy had a bunch of stuff like the TAR program and a few other confusing stipulations that I was not at all familiar with but basically it was up to 24 months after the EOE that you were still “eligible.”
And then there’s the officer equivalent which was you servr at the pleasure of the president so I guess they could occasionally get called back from retirement if National Security necessitated it. From what I understand officers that get called out of retirement fill support jobs such as training bases or supply... regional staff offices, recruiting et al... basically SLJO work...they are not going to the line right off the bat.
“War is a Racket”, Maj. General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1935
An oldie but still goodie:
Drafting Guys over 60
New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I’m too old to track down terrorists. You can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn’t be able to join a military unit until you’re at least 35.
For starters:
Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven’t lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. ‘My back hurts! I can’t sleep, I’m tired and hungry’ We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn’t even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, ‘I’m tired and can’t sleep and since I’m already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.
If captured we couldn’t spill the beans because we’d forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We’re used to getting screamed and yelled at and we’re used to soft food. We’ve also developed an appreciation for guns. We’ve been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I’ve been in combat and didn’t see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I’ve never seen anyone out run a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He’s still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn’t figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm’s way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.
After 9/11 green berets in their 50s were being asked to come back.
Looking at today’s military I wouldn’t be surprised if 70 year olds couldn’t outdo many in physical fitness training.
What "peacetime" operation could be so urgent that they would need to reactivate the very "domestic terrorists" that the derpstate so hates?
So it's a certainty that Joe was able to use his influence to get Hunter in.
So the question is, why would Hunter want to join the Naval reserves at that age? My theory is that he, with the help of Joe, had plans to run for political office and his service would be a resume' enhancer, but he blew it when he was booted out for drug usage.
Well, as long as there’s coffee.
Let the sexual weirdos running the military recruit ‘their own’ to serve.
Maybe bring in some the drug addicted whore monger sons of DC ‘elites’. Raid the private schools for their brats. It’s their families that benefit. Let them defend the country.
Why should every day Americans die and risk their lives for a country run by perverts and ‘progressives’? Really, why?
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Time to break out the "IN THE NAVY" commercial by the Village People!
The elite one world globalist think there are too many people. Plan A was the pandemic but the Chinese screwed up and it was not as deadly as they wanted so now we are onto plan b - WWIII where they expect to not only reduce the population but like in WWI take out the troops that would turn against them when their plans for the future became known. (Or not) It is the point where I doubt few really know what is going on or what the real goal creating all this chaos is.
I remember after 9/11 the USAF was looking for military retirees who have been out less than five years to return as part of the AF Reserves.
I we assume we have some US military personnel over in Ukraine doing training and maybe directing weapons systems use (?Patriot, etc batteries), inevitably at least a few will be killed by Russian artillery, missiles. Glide bombs, etc. To avoid saying officially that these men died in Ukraine fighting the Russians, are they listed as made-up “training accidents” which occurred elsewhere? Do they get theater combat pay enhancement while there and medals for action? Do families know where and how they ddied? Is this a ridiculous premise or is it happening now?
Volkssturm?
Try 65 years old and recalled to AD.
I was medically retired from the Army in 1997 (tip: NEVER take mefloquine for malaria prophylaxis), at a time when I was on the short list for promotion to Major. I took the medical as the least of two evils in that my next duty station - 1 year unaccompanied - was Korea, Guatemala, or Bosnia and with an 18 month son and daughter incubating, nah, I pushed for the medical.
I was told, had I taken the field grade promotion, I would have been recallable for life and it would have extended my service obligation to 6 years but there WERE circumstances where I could still be recalled.
Fast forward to Saddam Hussein, GW Bush, Halliburton,, GWOT and WMD’s and the “services” needed bodies to fill TO&E billets.
I was in civil service from Y2K to 2006, one of my jobs was clinical consultant to the Army’s Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program at a local post. Sometime around 2003 the clinic got a “new” doctor, a Psychiatrist and I got to know him well enough to know he - a Lt. Colonel Medical Corps - was recalled to active duty at the ripe young age of SIXTY-FIVE!
He joked that he was almost old enough for social security but his uniforms still fit; he’d retired back when I was in medical school sometime in the late 1980’s and was surprised to find himself getting a letter recalling him.
There were others. Surgeons - orthopedics and otherwise - who, comfortably ensconced in their $600,000/year jobs, chief of clinics, part hospital owners, who were also recalled to active duty by order of Secretary of the Army et. al., who were none to happy to take a 90% pay cut (but with housing and other benefits making it more like an 83% cut) for “such time until determined by the Secretary or the Department” yadda yadda.
I’m barely older than that psychiatrist was and have been reassured by several people in personnel command in the NCA that due to my disabilities, while I’m not LIKELY to be recalled at 100% rating, weirder things have happened.
So yeah, not grunts, DATs, combat arms/SF types, but managerial, medical, personnel?
A recent discussion with my local VA chief reminded me in his words “you’re still in the Army.”
FUBAR.
To man their globohomo/neocon misadventures, it’ll either be him or the draft. He’s probably not woke enough to be considered though.
Just retired from DoD. Army retiree with 22 years.
My MOS was 96C, Russian linguist. Used it for years in the former Soviet Union, actually worked in Belarus and Ukraine.
I wonder if I can get them to bump up my rank if I am called?
Sorry, I won’t be fighting for Ukraine (ie: walk into a meat grinder to be wasted on purpose) while the dems flood the country with illegals in preparation to overthrow our govt
I out-processed in 1999 also. I spent my off duty time around the greens near the White House. They were having the demonstrations against Clinton attended by the women who sued him for rape.
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