Found this article today and it should be good news to those who are called up up involutarily by the military if they are in the Individual Ready Reserve. According to this article, the worst that can happen is a less than honorable discharge but of course that also means losing benefits. At least they aren't throwing them in the brig for refusing to go to Iraq. Tell those you know in the IRR that they can relax a little bit.
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"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army took initial steps Monday to expel dozens of reservists who failed to report for active duty, in effect warning hundreds of others that they too could be penalized if they don't heed orders to return to active service.
The proceedings mark a turning point in the Army's struggle to deploy thousands of soldiers from the Individual Ready Reserve, a rarely mobilized group of reservists, to war zones in which some have resisted serving.
There are 463 IRR soldiers, who had been sent orders but have not reported, including 80 that now face discharge and 383 who have yet to be located.
The Army announced that the 80 soldiers will face review panels, known as separation boards, although the number may grow if more are located. If the panels conclude they intentionally did not obey a mobilization order, they would face one of three levels of discharge from the service: honorable, general or other-than-honorable.
They do not face criminal charges.
The Army is initiating discharge hearings for at least 80 reservists who failed to report for mobilization to Iraq and Afghanistan. All are former active-duty soldiers who still owed the military time to complete their service obligations."
"When the Army initially found that it was facing resistance from some IRR soldiers who did not want to get back in uniform, there was talk of declaring them AWOL and pursuing criminal charges against them. But that was deemed too harsh and the Army spent many months trying to contact those who were ignoring their orders."