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Brown paper envelopes will start arriving this week for 5,600 former soldiers, informing many who thought they had hung up their boots for good that they could be lacing up in Iraq in a matter of months. In a sign of the military's urgent need for personnel as the protracted campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan exhaust U.S. active forces, the Army announced last week that it would draw the extra troops from a rarely used pool of reservists designed for times of national crisis, the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). The Pentagon's decision to order inactive soldiers back...
...Iraq. Tapping into anxiety about a possible draft, Kerry has likened these moves to a "back door" version of one. After last week's announcement, Kerry's national security adviser Rand Beers said, "Today that back door swung wide open." Retired Lieut. General Theodore Stroup, who directed Army personnel during Gulf War I, remarks, "This is not a draft. There will be some people who are upset, because they had planned on getting on with their lives." But, says Stroup, "you do sign an obligation...
...school, which had an operating budget of $406 million in fiscal year 2003, spends most of its budget on personnel and space, Buehrens said...
...When a suicide car bomber intercepted a convoy of security personnel for General Electric in the heart of Baghdad on June 14 Zarqawi's information unit was there, ready and waiting. The three-vehicle convoy enters the screen and is followed down a crowded little street. As the lens zooms in the vehicles erupt in a blistering ball of flame. Three bystanders are seen turning their backs from the blast, attempting to cover their heads. In contrast to other videos of insurgent attacks, the cameraman does not flee. Instead he holds his position and zooms in on the burning suicide...
Rosenthal said he authorized all personnel on the first three floors to leave the building to allay concerns among staff caused by the suspicious package...