By Andrew Brennan October 22, 2014
The US military is quietly entering a new “Stop Loss” era. The news, which could affect thousands of men and women now serving and others who recently left the armed forces, came last week.
The big difference is that, under Stop Loss, you were told as you neared the end of your term that you’d have to stay for up to 12 months more. Here, you’re pulled back when you’ve already left.
Odumbo signed an executive order last Thursday authorizing the secretaries of defense and homeland security to recall Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve members to active duty in support of Operation United Assistance, the new mission to assist in containing Ebola in West Africa.
This news was not widely reported. But, for any veterans of the global war on terrorism reading this: No, this is not a joke....
While neither the Pentagon nor the White House has announced the extent to which this recall will be used, it could affect many service members, including some of the very ones being involuntarily separated....
[T]he recent executive order makes that look to be a complete shell game, designed to bypass the intent of sequestration and attempt to meet our operational mission requirements....
Political expedience coupled with a serious lack of leadership in the White House and Congress has led us to this precipice. Everything is reactionary, and nothing is planned, when leadership is unwilling or unable to make decisions absent political considerations.
[T]he executive order affords a great amount of latitude to Odumbo administration officials. More specifically, as can be seen from the quoted language above, the order authorizes “the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, under their respective jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve category and designated as essential under regulations.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_5999232.html
Two Marines have been killed in a new war in Iraq/Syria, and now Odumbo is returning to a policy presidential candidate John Kerry referred to as a “back-door draft” when he campaigned against Republicans.
How's all that "Hope and CHANGE" working for you Odumbo-tards?