Pentagon to Call on More Support Troops

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031016/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_military&cid=540&ncid=1473

WASHINGTON - Pentagon may have to mobilize more National Guard and Reserve units as part of a plan for rotating active-duty forces in Iraq early next year, officials said Thursday.

The additional troops have not been notified because Pentagon planners have yet to decide which units to call on.

"There are combat support and combat service support units in the reserve component that probably have not been notified yet," Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a news conference at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

"They will be notified in plenty of time to give them all the notification they need and all the training," he added.

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. *sigh*

There goes the military votes for *.

Hawkeye-X

[tlcandie]

2. Interesting that this call-up is the same MO for Israel ..

found that at Haartz News last night I believe. Thought it was interesting!!

[bluestateguy]

3. Soon the Pentagon will come knocking on your door, demanding your children

to fight George W. Bush's wars.

[NNN0LHI]

4. No one wants to believe that though. They are whistling past the graveyard

[tlcandie]

5. When they put it that it is YOUR patriotic duty and that if you aren't

with us you are against us i.e. terrorist then maybe noone will complain?

:shrug:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. I understanding that they are now considering Boy Scouts in an effort

not to institute the draft.