“More IRR activations coming this summer” and Hell No, I Won’t Go!

[jody]

More IRR activations coming this summer

Legally, the Corps can involuntarily activate and issue deployment orders to only 2,500 IRR Marines at a time. Late last year, about 100 were issued orders; about 1,200 more from the March call-up are expected to receive deployment orders.

While the Corps is aware of the cap, it plans to continue call-ups as long as needed to keep combat units up to strength, Stratton said.

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Keeping tabs on the 60,000 Marines in the IRR remains a constant challenge. Earlier this year, Brig. Gen. Darrell Moore, commander of the Kansas City-based Marine Corps Mobilization Command, said that as many as 20 percent of IRR forces cannot be located because they have failed to keep their contact information current.

“Some of the Marines just don’t want to have any more contact with the Marine Corps,” Stratton said. “They will tell you ‘I did my four years, and I’d just as soon go on and do something else.’”

It's interesting that DOD wants to search data bases like Social Security to locate the 60,000 Marines and those of other services in the IRR.

[babylonsister]

1. I think I'd have to become a nomad; I also think it's really strange

the Marines don't have a better way to track the soldiers on IRR?

[AnneD]

2. I was in the IRR

for a bit and left a few months after the SH invaded Kuwait. I just didn't show up when I was suppose to. I had just had my baby, I was in Nursing School, it was my last year and hell-they weren't paying me so I figured we were square. Then they started calling up IRR. I held my breath. Technically I had never signed out. I guess they could snag me if the really wanted.

The IRR is one of those nasty surprises they hit you with. They use to not care but now they want every fodder unit. They don't know how many folks would be willing to hide these guys or help them out of the country if it comes to that. It is these guys that are getting fucked over-not the government. They have already served.