Reply #23: here are a few links to info [View All]

[Bluerthanblue]

about the Marines-

But I believe they aren't the only branch to be doing this, and your friend is in a vunerable place indeed-

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2006/08/26/a14a_military_edit_0826.html


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060823&articleId=3042

A presidential order from the commander-in-chief has sanctioned the Marine Corps to issue involuntary recall orders to members of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), part of the non-active force of ex-military personal. Marines serve for four years on active military duty and after under the guidelines of service generally serve another four years in the Primary Reserve where they have the option of volunteer to return to active duty to fill vacant stations and posts. Unlike the servicemen in the Primary Reserves who keep active by continuing their training and drills those ex-military personnel who are listed under IRR must be ready to serve the United States if they are all called up in case of a national emergency or an attack on the United States. There are currently 59,000 former Marines serving in the Individual Ready Reserve.12 The servicemen who decide to leave active duty or retire automatically become members of the IRR which is generically a standardized system used by military organizations in their defensive procedures around the world. The presidential authorization allows the IRR’s activation to be open-ended, which means thousands of former and retired Marines, with a demographic number of 35,000, will be called back to active service in both Anglo-American occupied Iraq and Afghanistan.

still looking for navy confirmation...