Army may send special reserves to active duty involuntarily

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/8696975.htm

The U.S. Army is scraping up soldiers for duty in Iraq wherever it can find them, and that includes places and people long considered off-limits.

The Army on Tuesday confirmed that it pulled the files of some 17,000 people in the Individual Ready Reserve, the nation's pool of former soldiers. The Army has been screening them for critically needed specialists and has called about 100 of them since January.

Under the current authorization from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the Army could call as many as 6,500 back on active duty involuntarily.

"Yes we are screening them and, yes, we are calling some of them up," an Army spokesman, Col. Joseph Curtin, told Knight Ridder. "We need certain specialties, including civil affairs, military police, some advanced medical specialists, such as orthopedic surgeons, psychological operations, military intelligence interrogators."
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the article also said the Army has about 40,000 Ready Reserves missing and they will be looking for them

100 taken off the street after "completion on duty" and sent back?

Or: Oh Mex-ico.

Go here,

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_05/003963.php#more

It stinks to high heaven.

He'd probably go, too.