Does anybody have stats on deployed reservists?

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

I need to know how many are in the reserves total versus those that are deployed. Where I am going is what is the exact stat to point out how thinned out they are?

I need this to answer an e-mail to a right wing friend who says that only 2500 reservists have been activated for Iraq whereas 25,000 were activated for the first Gulf War.

[existentialist]

1. reservists

I don't haver the stats, sorry, but I personally know two.

[homerthompson]

2. how about making that winger prove their numbers?

you shouldn't be on the defensive in this case, imo.

[teach1st]

3. An article from 9/03

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/14/wirq114.xml

A Pentagon announcement last week that more than 20,000 reservists would have their service doubled to a year has caused uproar as thousands of wives, husbands and children struggle to manage without them - many of them enduring financial hardship.

...

Last week's announcement, which may eventually affect all 55,000 reservists deployed in Iraq, was condemned across the country. In Tennessee - a state that Mr Bush won narrowly in the last election - the senior National Guard officer, Major General Gus Hargett, said the decision had "seriously jeopardised the trust our soldiers and airmen have in their senior leadership".

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

5. Thank you very much!!

:D

[SoCalDem]

4. DOD Has Called Up 190,000 Reservists...note the DATE 2003

Signs of the Times - DOD Has Called Up 190,000 Reservists
... has called 18,770 to active duty the Naval Reserve has activated 8,744 and the Coast
Guard has called 3,199. The entire reserve corps totals 1.22 million people ...
www.loper.org/~george/trends/2003/Mar/948.html - 4k - Cached - Similar pages


"The Pentagon called 12,039 more reservists to active duty this week, bringing the total number of citizen-soldiers to 188,592.

Most of the reserves are in the Army National Guard and Reserve, at 130,142. The Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard have activated 27,737. The Marine Corps Reserve has called 18,770 to active duty the Naval Reserve has activated 8,744 and the Coast Guard has called 3,199.

The entire reserve corps totals 1.22 million people.

Not all of the reservists are in the Persian Gulf. Many are filling in posts vacated by active duty personnel who deployed to the region for a possible war with Iraq.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers said Tuesday there are more than 225,000 personnel arrayed around Iraq." (United Press International, March 12, 2003)

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

8. Thanks!

[teach1st]

6. From 10/4/04

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm

Lots of additional info.

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

7. Thanks!