Published May 19, 2004
U.S. Army calling up former soldiers
News-Leader Wire Services
Washington — 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 about 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 said.
The Army also is considering a plan to...(Full Story)
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