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Associated Press DECATUR, Ala. - At 68, many people are slowing down. Not John Wicks: He's going to Iraq (news - web sites). Wicks, a psychiatrist, has been called out of military retirement by the Army to fill a shortage of mental health experts needed to help soldiers cope with combat. He could be gone as long as a year. The Army hasn't told Wicks what his exact assignment in Iraq is, or where in the country it will send him. "I believe that the morale in general is not that good since the scandal at that prison," he said,...

WASHINGTON, July 21 - In what critics say is another sign of increasing stress on the military, the Army has been forced to bring more new recruits immediately into the ranks to meet recruiting goals for 2004, instead of allowing them to defer entry until the next accounting year, which starts in October. As a result, recruiters will enter the new year without the usual cushion of incoming soldiers, making it that much harder to make their quotas for 2005. Instead of knowing the names of nearly half the coming year's expected arrivals in October, as the Army did last...

WASHINGTON -- Plans by the U.S. Army to recall thousands of retired soldiers and place them on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan represent the worst kind of policy: unfair and unnecessary, a punishment dished out to American patriots to soothe the surly souls of foreign layabouts. The clause in recruitment contracts that allows the military to recall soldiers during times of crisis years after their retirement is necessary -- no argument there. It's an insurance policy in the event that the nation comes under catastrophic attack. But, as anyone who has sat through a recruitment officer's pitch knows, enlistees...

Five months after trading in fatigues for civilian clothes, Parrish got a letter ordering him to report to Fort Sill, Okla. "I thought it was a mistake," he said. "I thought it was a mistake." Parrish said he called the Army and that the Army agreed he finished active duty. But Army officials also said Parrish never officially resigned from the Reserves. The Army told him he was theirs until 2024, when Parrish will be 51 years old. Parrish hired Fayetteville attorney Mark Waple. Waple said the Army breached its contract with Parrish and violated his constitutional rights.

Digging deeper for help in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is recalling about 5,600 people. According to an Associated Press article, the Army is recalling to active duty about 5,600 people who recently left the service and still have a reserve obligation. "In a new sign of the strain the insurgency in Iraq has put on the U.S. military, Army officials said last week the involuntary callups will begin in July and run through December. It is the first sizable activation of the Individual Ready Reserve since the 1991 Gulf War, though several hundred people have voluntarily returned to service...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is forcing thousands of discharged soldiers back into the military, but that does not mean the United States needs to reinstate the draft, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunday. "I can tell you the all-volunteer forces worked" when former President Nixon ended conscription during the Vietnam War, said Sen. John Warner, who was Nixon's secretary of the Navy in 1973. Opposition to perceived inequities of the draft spawned much of the early opposition to that war, due largely to deferments that exempted students and some draft-eligible men with political connections. "We...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army plans to summon a new group of about 4,000 reserve soldiers for duty in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), taking the total number of additional call-ups announced this week to nearly 10,000, officials said on Wednesday. The Army formally announced plans to involuntarily mobilize 5,674 soldiers from its Individual Ready Reserve, former soldiers who remain eligible to be called to active duty for years after returning to civilian life. Robert Smiley, an Army official dealing with training, readiness and mobilization, said thousands more reservists from this pool could...

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time in more than a decade, the Army is forcing thousands of former soldiers back into uniform, a reflection of the strain on the service of long campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army officials on Wednesday announced that 5,674 former soldiers - mostly people who recently left the service and have up-to-date skills in military policing, engineering, logistics, medicine or transportation - will be assigned to National Guard and Reserve units that are scheduled to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan. The first notifications are to be received July 6. They will be put on...

The US army has moved to recall nearly 6,000 former soldiers to active service to help maintain its force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has played down the move but this is the first sizeable call-up of the kind since the 1991 Gulf War and critics say it amounts to backdoor conscription. The US has relied on volunteer armed forces since ending the draft three decades ago during the Vietnam War. It has a pool of 111,000 ex-soldiers in its Individual Ready Reserve. The BBC's Pentagon correspondent, Nick Childs, reports that the recall is a further sign of the...

The Army is preparing to notify about 5,600 retired and discharged soldiers who are not members of the National Guard or Reserve that they will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible service in Iraq or Afghanistan, Army officials said Tuesday.

The US army has moved to recall nearly 6,000 former soldiers to active service to help maintain its force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has played down the move but this is the first sizeable call-up of the kind since the 1991 Gulf War and critics say it amounts to backdoor conscription. The US has relied on volunteer armed forces since ending the draft three decades ago during the Vietnam War. It has a pool of 111,000 ex-soldiers in its Individual Ready Reserve. The BBC's Pentagon correspondent, Nick Childs, reports that the recall is a further sign of the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Digging deeper for help in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is recalling to active duty about 5,600 people who recently left the service and still have a reserve obligation. In a new sign of the strain the insurgency in Iraq has put on the U.S. military, Army officials said Tuesday the involuntary callups will begin in July and run through December. It is the first sizable activation of the Individual Ready Reserve since the 1991 Gulf War, though several hundred people have voluntarily returned to service since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Unlike members of the...

<p>WASHINGTON — As many as 7,500 retired and discharged soldiers who are not members of the National Guard or Reserve will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible service in Iraq or Afghanistan, Army sources told FOX News Tuesday.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army is preparing to notify about 5,600 retired and discharged soldiers who are not members of the National Guard or Reserve that they will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible service in Iraq or Afghanistan, Army officials said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is planning an involuntary mobilization of thousands of reserve troops to maintain adequate force levels in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), defense officials said on Monday. The move -- involving the seldom-tapped Individual Ready Reserve -- represents the latest evidence of the strain being placed on the U.S. military, particularly the Army, by operations in those two countries. Roughly 5,600 soldiers from the ready reserve will be notified of possible deployment this year, including some soldiers who will be notified within a month, said an Army official speaking...

The U.S. Armed Forces are calling to active duty the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). These are soldiers in the reserve who are not assigned to a unit (and are thus not paid), but are still serving out there remaining time (that they signed up for) in the reserves or active duty. Until their time is expired, they are liable to call up. Some are going to be called up. This is rarely done. There are 118,000 men and women in the IRR. All have received their military training, served on active or reserve duty and been honorably discharged, but still...

An erroneous order for veterans to pick a Reserve or National Guard unit by Monday produces a flurry of enlistments SALEM -- Thousands of recent U.S. Army veterans nationwide were told to choose by Monday a new assignment in the Army Reserve or National Guard -- meaning a potential return to active duty -- or the military would decide for them. The Army now says the order was a mistake. The consequence of the error appears to be a sharp increase in enlistments in Oregon and elsewhere by reservists who feared being assigned a unit without their consent. They face...

212th Signal Bn Marching Out The Arkansas National Guard 212th Signal Batallion is being activated and deployed to protect an un-named military installation in the South-West United States.

278th Armored Cavalry Regiment called to active duty Wednesday, May 12, 2004 By Staff and wire report Tennessee's largest National Guard combat force is being mobilized for active duty, officials said Tuesday. The 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment is an approximately 4,000-soldier force outfitted with enough tanks and armored vehicles to fill 585 railcars. The last time the full regiment was deployed was the Korean War. However, some troops in the regiment served in the first Gulf War. The Knoxville-based regiment has squadron headquarters in Athens, Kingsport and Cookeville and 30 armories scattered across Middle and East Tennessee - including a...

There's news out today that the 155th Armored Brigade from the Mississippi National Guard has been alerted. The same article also seemed to confirm that the 42nd Infantry Division headquarters (NY Guard) will soon be activated, along with the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (TN Guard). I can't post the article due to copywriter complaints from the source. If you want more information, a quick Google search should turn up what you want.