IRR is Already a Backdoor Draft

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So much for the army only calling up critical MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) designators such as Military Police, intelligence and medical skills. It appears that infantry men are needed to fill out the ranks of the regular army and reserves. Soldiers on the IRR (Inactive Ready Reserve) are being called up to make units going over to Iraq and Afghanistan appear at 100%. But oh no, the army doesn't need an additional 100,000 troops that Congress wants to give to them to meet the needs worldwide, so says the Pentagon and Rumsfeld. Maybe it is because the armed forces are falling short of current recruitment goals by 40% and they realize that there is no way short of a draft to meet these goals. Something has to be done before the end of the Summer. It is too dangerous a world to use up our armed forces in this manner. If we break the armed forces it could take over decade to fix, much like what happened after Vietnam.

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