Bring on the Draft

This AP story should help me fulfill my nightmare quota for the week. John has Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR) status for about 150 years. But he keeps reassuring me that it's a last resort taken just before the draft. I hope everyone else is as reassured as I am. Sleep well.


HONOLULU - A veteran of the first Persian Gulf War (news - web sites) is suing the Army after it ordered him to report for duty 13 years after he was honorably discharged from active duty and eight years after he left the reserves...

The Army announced last year that it would involuntarily activate an estimated 5,600 soldiers to serve in Iraq, Afghanistan (news - web sites) and elsewhere. Army officials would be tapping members of the Individual Ready Reserve — military members who have been discharged from the Army, Army Reserve or the Army National Guard, but still have contractual obligations to the military.