The last time the reserve got called up I think was Iraq during the surge. Maybe some smaller activations since then but that was the big push. I was workin with National Guardsmen and reservists overseas in Iraq
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Has there been no mention of why this happened? 3,000 doesn’t sound like that many compared to what I assume we already have in our active military. Like why is it necessary to call up reservists rather than shuffling around some units from other places?
Could be a specialty that they need to do some training over there, just speculating though.
Officers who haven’t resigned their commissions (either retired or finished with their active service obligation) default into the IRR. This is likely some sort of speciality skillset group that’s about to get a very unwelcome piece of certified mail. It’s a bad day to speak Russian…