Pentagon Says It Will Call Up Added Reserves

Senior Pentagon officials said Tuesday that more National Guard and Reserve forces would be notified in coming weeks that they might have to serve in Iraq next year. The announcement was made amid complaints from Congress and the families of part-time troops about the stress of lengthy deployments.

Gen. Peter Pace of the Marines, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the current thinking was that no additional reservist combat brigades, each numbering 5,000 troops, would be alerted beyond those already told they will serve.

"I am sure that we are not looking at any more combat units from the Guard or Reserve other than those already notified," General Pace said at a news briefing. "That does not mean that there is not going to be more Reserves and Guard. There will be units that do logistics and the like that need to be notified."

That work, called combat support and combat service support, is critical to operations. Such duty in Iraq often subjects troops to front-line fire.



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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/politics/22TROO.html

Damn.

before the Iraq war began, rummy was asked about the possibility of a draft for the Iraqi war, and explained in detail the exact operation of the BIG draft machine that could kick into gear at any minute now....this is rummy talking about the draft in Vietnam....it'll happen just like this when the draft gets going...."churning"....54,000 dead...hundreds of thousands injured permanently...draftees "sucked into the intake"....
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This is a quote from Donald Rumsfeld
at the Defense Department Briefing (01/07/2003)

"The disadvantages to the individuals so brought in are notable. If you think back to when we had the draft, people were brought in; they were paid some fraction of what they could make in the civilian manpower market because they were without choices. Big categories were exempted -- people that were in college, people that were teaching, people that were married. It varied from time to time, but there were all kinds of exemptions. And what was left was sucked into the intake, trained for a period of months, and then went out, adding no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time, because the churning that took place, it took enormous amount of effort in terms of training, and then they were gone."

NT!

:bounce: Its coming and soon

Why doesn't Herr Rumwitz hire corporate combat support and combat service support to go to Iraq?

You'd have to offer the private mercenaries at least $10,000 a month to "volunteer." Don't these people exist in the private sector? What happened to that beautiful theory?

Remember Halliburton running the water-supply and mail service in Iraq? Corporate combat service support right there.

The only little minor problem with civilian CSS is that sometimes they decide they'd rather not be shot today and just stay in bed. What the hell are we going to do? Fire them? Like that's a hardship or something--"I'm sorry, we're going to have to let you go, you won't have to worry about getting shot at any more."

You are absolutely right.

www.mfso.org
www.bringthemhomenow.com

if you have a loved one in the service, and they refuse to follow Der Rumsfield's orders, please have them call:
http://girights.objector.org/