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Chu's Update Must Not Be Happening
... Our battalion called up 5 captains from IRR, 2 who's resignations had been denied, to fill slots on an MTOE that was bloated for our mission. Now, 8 months into the deployement, only 1 one of these officers even has a "real" job, the rest just kind of float around day to day.
This sounds more like Chu's update is not happening if all that is happening for the 06-07 rotation. There would be no reason for a resignation to be denied if an officer never had to resign in the first place. You're absolutely right though that many of the call-ups seem absolutely pointless.
While I was at SCCC for Signal in '04, we had a captain, a major and a lieutenant colonel recalled from the IRR that joined us on occasion to get a feel for what was new in Signal (since they'd been out for awhile). As you might imagine, their 8 year commitment had long since passed. This was the first time I heard (from them) that in order to get out of the IRR, apparently you're supposed to resign your commission. "Who knew that?" was pretty much the common attitude between them. Needless to say, they seemed pretty pissed. Did they all end up going to Iraq? Nope - they sent one of them to Honduras. Many other IRR recalls, like you said, have gone to units that just plain don't need them.
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