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The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, at the direction of the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, are authorized to order to active duty not to exceed 24 consecutive months, such units, and individual members of the Ready Reserve under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned, not to exceed 1,000,000 members on active duty at any one time, as the Secretary of Defense and, with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a...

US Army reservist Matthis Chiroux has made liberals across America quiver with excitment as he publicly refused to report to active duty. Chiroux, a former sergeant in the US Army, has decided that since he does not agree with the Iraqi "occupation" that he is no longer obligated to follow orders. After serving 5 years in the Army, Chiroux was honorably discharged and placed in the Individual Ready Reserves (IRR) which essentially serves as a resource of former soldiers who can, at any time, be reactivated during war time or during a national emergency...very similar to the standard military Reserve...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Army this week will begin to muster 10,000 Individual Ready Reserve members at locations across the United States. The muster, which will last through June, is part of a seven-year Army project to reinvigorate the force, Army Human Resources Command spokesman Ray Gall said. “We’re working on making [the IRR] a viable force that can be deployed as needed,” he said. “We want to get a better handle on how ready these people really are, using these musters.” IRR members will be paid $190 to attend a muster, which is taxable, Gall said. The IRR is...

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2007 – Over the next week, 1,800 Individual Ready Reserve Marines will receive notice from the Marine Corps that they are needed in Iraq, an official announced today. Marine Lt. Col. Jeff Riehl, Marine Corps Manpower and Reserve Affairs spokesman, told reporters at the Pentagon today that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates approved the notification March 23, and the letters are being mailed today. All enlistees in all services incur an eight-year commitment in some capacity, generally a combination of active or reserve duty and then IRR service. The Marine Corps can call up to 2,500...

The U.S. Army is calling back retired soldiers and boosting the benefits of an officers program because of a projected officer shortage. In order to stop the dwindling of active duty soldiers, the Army is calling more retirees back to service. After active duty service the Army can call a soldier back within the next 545 days if deemed necessary. Hundreds of officers from the Individual Ready Reserve have been ordered to report back to base and ready for redeployment. Col. Mark Patterson, chief of officer policy for the Army, called it being proactive.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Army leaders are preparing to announce that those from the Individual Ready Reserve refusing to honor their mobilization orders will be declared “absent without leave,” according to Army and DOD officials. The number of people to be declared AWOL “is very small — about 12,” an Army officer involved in developing the policy told Stripes on Wednesday. But the move to punish the no-shows “is long overdue,” said the officer, who asked not to be identified. The IRR is a category of servicemembers who have left active duty or active reserve service but still have time left...

MILTON, Fla. - Small, frail but rambunctious, 16-month-old Will Fitzpatrick suffers from multiple birth defects. He'll need a second open-heart operation within six months and a transplant if he makes it into his teens. His parents, Terry and Susan Fitzpatrick, have juggled their work schedules to provide the constant care Will needs ---- [snip -------- paste] Now the Fitzpatricks are facing a new crisis: The Army has ordered Terry, who was honorably discharged in 2000, back into uniform for duty in Iraq. Terry, a 26-year-old carpenter who was an Army mechanic, is appealing for a hardship exemption but so far...

Nov. 16 (UPI) -- More than 2,000 former U.S. Army soldiers are resisting returning to active service in the Individual Ready Reserve program, the New York Times said Tuesday. In all, there are about 110,000 members of the IRR, of which more than 4,000 have been summoned back for service in Iraq or Afghanistan. More than 1,800 of them have so far requested exemptions or delays. Of about 2,500 who were due to arrive on military bases for refresher training by Nov. 7, 733 did not show up. So far, only 3 percent of requests for exemptions have been turned...

The Army has encountered resistance from more than 2,000 former soldiers it has ordered back to military work, complicating its efforts to fill gaps in the regular troops. Many of these former soldiers - some of whom say they have not trained, held a gun, worn a uniform or even gone for a jog in years - object to being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan now, after they thought they were through with life on active duty. They are seeking exemptions, filing court cases or simply failing to report for duty, moves that will be watched closely by approximately 110,000...

Telegram from Army catches Prince George retiree off guard By: BEN BAGWELL , Staff Writer 10/16/2004 PRINCE GEORGE - The U.S. Army informed a 57-year-old military retiree on Thursday that he will be granted a 30-day extension before he has to report for duty as a Ready Reservist en route to Iraq. County resident Cleveland Rodgers, who served 36 years in the Army, was comfortably retired and was teaching supply soldiers at Fort Lee. He was enjoying civilian life and, despite some health concerns, the last thing he expected was to be recalled by the U.S. Army, having served in...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army, now mobilizing 5,600 former soldiers from a rarely used personnel pool to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, plans to summon a similar number next year for duty in those war zones, a senior official said Friday. To plug shortfalls in certain skills in units being deployed, the Army has tapped the Individual Ready Reserve, made up of 111,000 people who have completed voluntary military commitments and have returned to civilian life but remain eligible to be mobilized in a national emergency. The Army said about 3,900 of the 5,600 IRR soldiers scheduled to be summoned...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, now mobilizing 5,600 former soldiers from a rarely used personnel pool to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, plans to summon a similar number next year for duty in those war zones, a senior official said on Friday. The Army also said it plans to step up recruitment efforts to try to meet goals to sign up 80,000 new soldiers for the regular Army and 22,000 for the Army Reserve in the fiscal year that began on Friday. The Army recruiting command's chief acknowledged the wars were deterring some potential recruits. To plug shortfalls in...

WASHINGTON – Thirty percent of former U.S. soldiers who have been called back to duty involuntarily to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to report on time, and eight have been declared AWOL, the Army said Tuesday. The Army's problem with mobilizing soldiers from the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), a seldom-tapped personnel pool, is another sign of the difficulty the Pentagon is encountering in maintaining troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far, the Army has mobilized 3,664 people from the IRR to active duty, but 1,085 have not reported on time to the Army post to which they...

two drudge links gave me pause today and i am interested in comments from the forum. first, "kerry accuses bush of hiding troop plan". see the story here... http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040917/D855LF281.html i am a vet and still in the irr and i did get a letter from my branch the other day... makes me wonder. they want to know where i am, they asked me to volunteer for duty, and asked if there was any reason i couldn't come back onto active service. is there something to this story? is there something big planned if GWB gets a 'mandate' from this election...

STATEMENT FROM REP JOHN P. MURTHA [D-PA]: I have learned through conversations with officials at the Pentagon that at the beginning of November, 2004, the Bush Administration plans to call up large numbers of the military guard and reserves, to include plans that they previously put off to call up the Individual Ready Reserve. I have said publicly and privately that our forces are inadequate to support our current worldwide tempo of operations. On November 21, 2003, a bipartisan group of 135 members of the House of Representatives wrote to the President urging an increase in the active duty army...

Summary The U.S. Department of Defense is now activating the Army's Individual Ready Reserve for combat duty. Given the inherent problems associated with such a move, it is clear that U.S. war planners were caught in a trap: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's "revolution in warfare" has not evolved as expected. Analysis On July 6, 5,600 members of the U.S. Army's Individual Ready Reserve will start to receive notices that they are being recalled to active duty. Members of the IRR are generally soldiers who have completed their primary active-duty assignments. They are not part of the regular Reserves or the...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A group of Army Reserve soldiers rarely tapped for duty could soon be heading to Iraq, Pentagon officials said Wednesday. The troops, part of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), could be called to fill holes in units deploying to Iraq as part of the upcoming rotation of troops later this year.

FORT WORTH, Texas - The Defense Department, strapped for troops for missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, has proposed to Congress that it tap the Internal Revenue Service to locate out-of-touch reservists. The unusual measure, which the Pentagon said has been examined by lawyers, would allow the IRS to pass on addresses for tens of thousands of former military members who still face recall into the active duty. The proposal has largely escaped attention amid all the other crises of government, and it is likely to face opposition from privacy rights activists who see information held by the IRS as inviolate....

Army Capt. Richard Hinman says he's a "draftee" serving in a volunteer army. Think about it, says Hinman. The West Point graduate, who left the military in 1999, didn't want to go to Iraq and Kuwait. But he got his orders on Feb. 8 and was sent overseas in May. "I wanted to get out of this kicking-in-doors-with-guns kind of thing," said Hinman, who was looking forward to more time with his two children but is now serving at Camp Doha, Kuwait. "It was a real surprise." And a shock, Hinman said in a telephone interview from Kuwait, because he...