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

[Lloyd Crowther]

Rummy,

Not that I am trying to fan the firestorm that has been going on on the list
lately, but I asked for you source of the 40% figure you cited because I
found it hard to believe.  As you may remember, my youngest son was in the
Pentagon on 9/11 so I am interested in military moral, etc.  You said
"People that are supposed to be reporting for duty from guard units are not
 showing up as ordered. They are being reported AWOL (absent without leave).
They  are not small numbers either. 40% of all guard members with orders are
not
 showing up. It appears as though the popularity of war is wearing off."

Your later email (below) indicates this is at one installation and the clock
was still clicking at the time the article was written.  Far different than
how I took your comment, i.e., as an verified epidemic throughout the
military.  After Danny Rather I have been taking such assertions with a
spoon full of salt.  This is not a personal attack on you or anyone else on
the list, just an attempt to try to put everything together in my own mind.

Lloyd

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>
> 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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