Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty | The White...
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the...
Our reservists are paid, I'm pretty sure.
What I mean though was that you don't want to commit your main fighting force if you don't have to, whether it be reservists or a mercenary group.
Between their own version of reservists and Wagner, Russia was in effect able to demilitarize Ukraine like it set out to do, without committing the main army, which had been saved for the inevitable introduction of NATO weaponry into the fight.
This makes me mad. I have a young niece with a 5 yr daughter. She's in the reserve and may face this call up. Both she and her husband are both in the Army Reserve.
I'll admit I don't know very much about the military, I was just going off the name reserves. By definition, a layman would think they would be held in reserve to be called up when the main forces are almost exhausted...
Or they are to be folded into support positions so that the varsity can proceed with expeditionary operations.