All volunteer military. (USA)

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d. As a member of the Ready Reserve I may be required to perform active duty or active duty for training without my consent (other than as provided in item 8 of this document) as follows:

(1) in time of national emergency declared by the President of the United States, I may be ordered to active duty (other than for training) for not more than 24 consecutive months.

Has anyone been recalled for more than 24 months?

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

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Has anyone been recalled for more than 24 months?

I have no idea.

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Has anyone been recalled for more than 24 months?

Just the ones who got the special ride back from Iraq in silver boxes... because they were pulled from their civilian lives and sent to Iraq with inadequate body armor, training, and up-armored HUMVE's( that they were searching scrap dumps to find some steel to do it themselves) to drive around the war zone in.

I wonder what that number is... since the powers that be dont even want the pictures of the coffins shown in their excellent little adventure in nation building

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d. As a member of the Ready Reserve I may be required to perform active duty or active duty for training without my consent (other than as provided in item 8 of this document) as follows:

(1) in time of national emergency declared by the President of the United States, I may be ordered to active duty (other than for training) for not more than 24 consecutive months.

Has anyone been recalled for more than 24 months?

I doubt it as that's for Ready Reserve only. If you're on inactive reserve and get recalled....you're screwed and will serve out the remainder of your 8 year contract on active duty.

I was fortunate that my 8 years ran out in the fall of 2001 otherwise I would have been recalled. No sense in recalling someone for only a couple months I guess.

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I am a little disappointed that no one has answered my question about what constitutes the cessation of war.

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I am a little disappointed that no one has answered my question about what constitutes the cessation of war.

One could argue that after the 30 June 2004 cessation of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the US-led war against Iraq ceased, i.e., sovereign power was transferred to a transitional Iraqi Administration.

If (when) the US implements a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Iraq (like the US has w/some 90+ other nations, e.g., from Japan, Germany, ROK (South Korea), the Czech Republic, East Timur), cessation of war is implicit. Once the USG has a in place (ratified through the US Senate) a bilateral or multi-lateral agreement (i.e., NATO) between a sovereign government and the US for US uniformed service members to be stationed or on the other state’s territory implicitly one is not at war with a state.

If you’re asking about the end of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and what constitutes cessation of that … uh, someone more erudite than I will have to speculate on that answer.

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I am a little disappointed that no one has answered my question about what constitutes the cessation of war.

One could argue that after the 30 June 2004 cessation of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the US-led war against Iraq ceased, i.e., sovereign power was transferred to a transitional Iraqi Administration.



VR/Marg

You may argue what you like. I submit that no state can be sovereign when occupied by the superior military forces of another state. Was Lebanon sovereign when occupied by Syria? Was Poland sovereign when occupied by the USSR?

The Iraqi government is a puppet, just like Jaruzelski's and Honecker's were.

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I am not going to spend a bunch of time on Google, but I remember that during the VN war, there was a lack of recruits and the problem was worse.

I had two friends who were given the choice of "jail for a felony or the Marines".

That didn't resolve the problem though. So, McNamara came up with the "100,000" plan.

You were not allowed to be in the Army unless you could read on a 6th grade level. There were people who were just under that level.

So, the solution was to give them a 6 week reading course just before going to Okinawa.

In a country full of signs in French and Vietnamese, how much is there to read anyway?

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You may argue what you like. I submit that no state can be sovereign when occupied by the superior military forces of another state. Was Lebanon sovereign when occupied by Syria? Was Poland sovereign when occupied by the USSR?

The Iraqi government is a puppet, just like Jaruzelski's and Honecker's were.

Iraq hasn't been sovereign since it signed the surrender treaty in 1991. That's the world we live in - you start a war and lose, you suffer some consequences. Sometimes it results in a second war.

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You may argue what you like. I submit that no state can be sovereign when occupied by the superior military forces of another state. Was Lebanon sovereign when occupied by Syria? Was Poland sovereign when occupied by the USSR?

The Iraqi government is a puppet, just like Jaruzelski's and Honecker's were.

So is Germany a sovereign state? Cuba?

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You may argue what you like. I submit that no state can be sovereign when occupied by the superior military forces of another state. Was Lebanon sovereign when occupied by Syria? Was Poland sovereign when occupied by the USSR?

The Iraqi government is a puppet, just like Jaruzelski's and Honecker's were.

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