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Who knew that Obamacare provides for a “Regular Corps” and a “Ready-Reserve Corps” of officers and individuals who are appointed by the president? Commissioned officers are subject to active duty at the call of the surgeon general. The new law provides $17.5 million in each of the first four years to recruit and train these reserves. During his campaign, Obama said: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military. … We’ve got to have a civilian security force just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to...

NOTE The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-delegation-authority-appoint-commissioned-officers-ready-re Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Presidential Memoranda The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 02, 2010 Presidential Memorandum--Delegation of Authority to Appoint Commissioned Officers of the Ready Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SUBJECT: Delegation of Authority to Appoint Commissioned Officers of the Ready Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 301...

Please check out the provision for a Commissioned Corps and Ready Reserve Corps. in the healthcare bill. I don't know what it has to do with healthcare but it sounds an awful lot like Obama just got his own personal militia. http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-ca... it starts on page 1312.