[Rhodes22-list] 40% article...found it.

[Steve]

Get your gun, Rummy.  Hunt'em down; show some
patiotism:-)
Steve

--- R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:

>  
> 40 percent of Army reservists fail to  report to
> Fort Jackson
> Associated Press 
> 
> COLUMBIA--Only about 60 percent of reservists
> ordered to  report to Fort 
> Jackson have reported so far, Army officials said. 
> 
> As of  Tuesday, 186 of the 309 members of the
> Individual Ready Reserve 
> ordered to  report to the Columbia base had arrived,
> said Lt. Col. Burton L. 
> Masters,  spokesman for the Army's Human Resources
> Command. 
> 
> "We're not surprised  by those numbers at all,"
> Masters said. 
> 
> Most of those who have not  reported are seeking
> exemptions from active duty 
> or delays in reporting, he  said. 
> 
> Those who have not reported or applied for a delay
> or exemption  will be 
> considered deserters if they do not show up within
> seven days of the  date they 
> were told to report for duty, Masters said. 
> 
> "We are going to  go the extra mile to work with
> people," he said. "But if 
> they don't report, the  Army will track them down." 
> 
> Troops subject to the recall have been on  active
> duty but have not completed 
> their eight-year obligation to the Army.  
> 
> The Army said 5,600 individual reservists were being
> recalled to active  
> duty; 4,500 were to report to Fort Jackson. However,
> orders have been cut for  
> only 3,667 of the soldiers to return to active duty,
> Masters  said.
> 
> 
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