Saturday, April 3, 2010

Obama's Ready Reserve Corps in the "Health Care" Act: Real threat?.

Or boogeyman?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow...lots of text. They love purple prose.

Anonymous said...

Let's think about this. Why would it be included in the bill? Does Obama-nation really think he can call up the ready reserve to enforce his agenda? Good luck with that. He's over played his hand by keeping the military everywhere but in the USA.

Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver said...

Even if...even IF...
there is an immeasurable difference in driving past another thug's house and spraying it, and his family, with random gunfire from a Tec-Nine, and in having to face a fellow two hundred yards away from you who has your head and neck in his crosshairs and will, without a blink of hesitation, render you permanently room temperature.

Tom Wolff said...

I would not over react to this, but simply issue some caution.

Just because an old iniative is being quoted here* , it does not mean that it it can't be restructured into an entirely different entity.

Keep yer powder dry, the "brownshirt"
vision of young armed idiots can be enacted with a stroke of a pen.

*Anyone who believes that Wikipedia is a factual source of info can simply register there and learn that ANY idiot can post whatever they want on there.

I laugh at people who use that crap as a "source". I might as well ask my neighbor what he thinks...

Anonymous said...

Could this be the people the serve in the service of the state as in "The Day the Dollar Died"?

GeekParallax said...

The IRR...

Let me break the Inactive Ready Reserve down for you. When you enlist- your contract is always an 8 year block. Your active duty time, and your IRR time. If you have a six year enlistment, you have 2 years IRR time, and so forth.

Anyone still in the IRR considers themselves having fulfilled the terms of their contract. The IRR period is- and is preached to them as- a formality. Many of them have begun lives and careers. When they get called up, they deeply, deeply resent it. I know. My platoon had several IRR soldiers added to us on my last deployment, and they were all bitter. One of my friends hated George W. Bush with an anger that bordered on hate. Whenever something bad happened on deployment, he would mutter "Thank you George Bush."

Believe me, the quickest thing that would turn IRR soldiers against the President would be for him to call them up-- and indefinitely, to boot.

PioneerPreppy said...

Interestingly enough the only time I served as an officer was after being called up as IRR during Desert Storm.

After being commissioned with no slots open in the late 80's and with the reserve units being retired or switched to support roles I was immediately put in the IRR as surplus. I was called up only once for 3 weeks training out at Dugway proving grounds.

It never panned out for anymore time although I even volunteered to stay on. Oh well.

Dan said...

GeekParallax: That guy who hated Bush had nobody to blame but himself. He signed for 8 yrs, just like everbody else. He knew the terms.
But, after reading the language in the bill via the link, the things that stood out to me are:
1)The people called into this Ready Reserve BS are under the direct control of the Surgeon General. Might make sense if they were all civilian doctors, but not if they're talkin' the IRR. 2)The multiple referrences to the similarities to the military's reserve program!
If it's the same, why is it labelled as similar?
3) It speaks of inserting these officers into units. I hear political commissars! That it's under the Surgeon Gen means nothing. That's an appointed cabinet post, any mook who'll do what they're told can be stuffed in there. Also, all funding goes through the SG.
4)Mention of "underserved" areas means we pay for doctors to go where the pres says so, and I'm sure ther'll be real docs in the program at some level.
The rest of it is scary, though.