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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Might be good for my 70+ yo brother. It would get him off the couch in front of the TV and out of the house.
Ruh Roh! First Army, then Navy?
Will there be an age limit to these recalled military retirees? Beyond a certain age. costs will exceed short term benefits.
KISS MINE Brandon!
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.
My take....maybe you could do this with 40-year old folks...on up to 45 years old. Beyond that? No, physical stuff starts to come up. All of these people would be mid-management types.
As for reasoning? That comment by Putin last year of creating two new Army Corps got people hyped up. This week, the Russian General said the two new units (in the region of 400k men each) would become active by the end of 2024. On paper, it may exist, but I don’t see how you’d reach nearly a million new members....without drafting a lot of Russian women, or just saying billets exist but are never filled. Some speculation that the two units would be placed along the borders of Finland, the Baltic, and Poland.
This is why a military retirement isn’t a retirement at all.
It’s a retainer.
I retired in 2009 and recently got communications from the USAF saying they were looking for Lt Cols with my AFSC to return for 2-year tours of duty.
Right, because they didn't get to kill him off when they had him the first time around. That's one way of getting out of having to pay military retirees their pensions. And RATS can have more military mail-in ballots they will try to get rejected in the courts. It's a win-win for the RATS.
bttt
Agree
IF war comes—the draft will follow. This time Boys and girls.
The old dudes are just a stop gap to train the new army. Whole units will just speak Spanish. A horrible 9-11 event must happen to get American sheep all mad and crazy for revenge. Maybe use a small nuke on Boston, or sink a cruise ship, it must be really bad—like what happened in Israel on Oct. 7. It will need to be creative. Then, war declared, all in uniform—even Barron Trump. Flags will fly, people will sing patriotic songs. Churches filled with worshipers. It will be great to be a united people. It will be fun, until the first defeat and the body bags came in wholesale lots.
Only 23 percent of core military draft population is physically or mentally capable of being able to serve.
In WW2, the USA had 55 percent of the draftable population in the military.
If the Russians in 2023 can get to 55 percent eligible, they would actually have a manpower advantage over the USA even though they have 150 million less population.
In preparation for the Boer War, the British military found that 2/3 of the population from the slums were physically incapable of serving because of disease and physical problems.
The USA has become so decayed that they could send their population to live in 19th Century British slums, and raise the military capability of the draft pool !
The age limit is 70.
“The age limit is 70”
Bummer...still too damn old...
After 9-11 tried to join back up and they said I was to old.
Maybe they will eventually want a very fit 75 year old...
They don't care. Look at what they're doing in Ukraine. Both sides are conscripting men well past their prime and are starting to consider women. The elites need a global meat grinder to bring down the population. That's their goal, and WWIII is how it'll come about.
Not all of us. 😆🤗😀
For us USAF guys, it was 10 years for retirees. I was sweating getting called back, for the Gulf War. Fortunately, the call never came.
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