Wait, am I understanding correctly that this is just the declassification of a document that was in effect in 2001, and not that this is happening right now?
Veterans of the Vietnam war would not be very useful to recall now, since most of them are much older than fighting age (not to mention most of them have medical problems from the abuse and chemical exposure they were put through).
Wait, am I understanding correctly that this is just the declassification of a document that was in effect in 2001, and not that this is happening right now?
Veterans of the Vietnam war would not be very useful to recall now, since most of them are much older than fighting age (not to mention most of them have medical problems from the abuse and chemical exposure they were put through).
No, the 2001 EO enables this.
The ALARACT 017/2024 Recalling all retired Arm Forces is from March 24th, 2024:
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN40510-ALARACT_0172024-000-WEB-1.pdf
Ah, thank you.