"Nick Hull" wrote in message
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In article ,
"SteveF" wrote:

Plus, once you sign up you can be recalled later in life for any
purpose. An office mate of mine had a father who had retired from
being
a B-52 pilot and was over 65. He was recalled to be a helicopter pilot
in Vietnam and mentioned he was the youngest in his survival school
class. McNamara calculated it was cheaper to have them killed than to
contimue paying pensions.

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That's only if you retire from service. If you resign a commission or
elect
to not re-enlist for another period of service you then have a couple of
years in the Individual Ready Reserve. Once that time is up you are
done.

There was a recent news item where a soldier had resigned, and his
resignation accepted, then some time later the army said the acceptance
was a mistake and they were recalling him to active duty (Iraq).


Officers resign, enlisted (soldiers) simply let their enlistment contract
expire. If this is the one involving an officer in North Carolina, the Army
was saying that he needed to resign to go off off active duty and then
submit another resignation to resign from the IRR. He is saying there is no
such requirement and IRR terms expire automatically. So does his lawyer.
AFAIK he hasn't reported for duty.

Steve.