DeFazio says vets coerced by recruiters

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/05/20/d1.cr.defazioreserves.0520.html

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U.S. Army veterans who re-upped under what the Army now says were mistaken orders should be allowed to withdraw their enlistments, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio said Wednesday

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Earlier this month, the Army's Human Resources Command announced it was screening IRR soldiers "for possible assignment to an Army Reserve unit." But the Army has not yet made any involuntary assignments, the statement said.

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"This equates to a draft and violates the premise of an all-volunteer military," he said on the House floor.

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A spokeswoman for the Army's Human Resources Command told Knight-Ridder that some "overzealous" Army recruiters may have intimidated former soldiers to drive up enlistment.

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