FEMA officials say Congress could help with recruiting and retaining reservists by guaranteeing they can keep their regular jobs while on assignment, as is the case with military reservists.
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"Reservists comprise the largest part of FEMA's disaster incident workforce, yet FEMA has hired less than half the Reservists it needs based on its target staffing goals," the report noted.
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On weekends, reservists and cadets participate in army training sessions.
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It is also 7,453 short of its goal of 10,000 reservists.
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However, many reservists do not share in the benefits they earned.
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Another 4,400 reservists will be waiting in the wings if required.
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Military Reality Check: Trump firing reservists By Chip Grabow, CNN Arizona Rep.
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"We rely on our reservists and we love them," said FEMA's Hernandez.
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The new Administrator should mandate meaningful training for new and current reservists.
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The department said 1,425 of its members are military reservists or veterans.
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Beginning on May 21967, tens of thousands of Israeli reservists were mobilized.
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The draft laws envisage an army of 5,000 active soldiers and 3,000 reservists.
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Most veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan were civilian soldiers, guard reservists.
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So, in a shutdown, our Reservists and Guardsmen are hit with disproportionate impact.
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All told there are approximately 5,500 active duty military, reservists, family members, and staff.
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Columbia Sportswear: 210% discount for active duty, veterans, retirees, reservists, and dependents in stores.
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The plaintiffs also presented statements by company officials suggesting they harbored bias against reservists.
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The colonel said he believed that in most cases, reservists kept equipment as souvenirs.
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Like reservists in a war, with "joie de vivre" more intensely felt than ever before.
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Reservists, he says, won't be able to get the fee waived unless they're actively deployed.
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Using reservists would mean taking them from civilian hospitals that may need them right now.
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He would call up military and police reservists to relieve forces worn out by enforcing it.
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Two reservists and one civilian were killed in Saturday's attack and operation to evacuate the institute.
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It was also unclear whether it might go beyond active-duty forces and apply to reservists.
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On Saturday Cazeneuve called on "patriotic citizens" to become reservists to help relieve exhausted security forces.
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But FEMA's own actions may also drive away some who are willing to serve, reservists say.
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It also called up a limited amount of reservists to help out its aerial defense command.
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On Saturday, Cazeneuve called on "patriotic citizens" to become reservists to help relieve exhausted security forces.
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The Navy Reserve also postponed drill weekends through May for its reservists and limited unofficial travel.
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The first is the military's increased reliance on reservists to meet the rising demand for personnel.
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The United Kingdom has also formed a contingent of art reservists, the Cultural Property Protection Unit.
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Tickets are $10 for military veterans, active-duty personnel, reservists and retirees with the code NYT.
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He changed course on Saturday, announcing a call-up of military reservists and new aircraft resources.
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In the United States, about 2,500 active duty service members are transgender, as are 1,500 reservists.
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He began the process of calling up military and police reservists and of tightening border security.
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Guardsmen and Reservists, when not serving together on a deployment, spend little time with their uniformed colleagues.
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Unfortunately, reservists do not automatically get this form even though they complete the necessary active duty days.
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Today, military reservists and veterans make up more than 18 percent of the Postal Service's 640,000 employees.
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He later mobilized about 913,000 Australian Defense Force reservists to help regional communities affected by the fires.
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Reservists who are fighting to save their own homes from the fires will be exempt, she said.
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A Pentagon-approved DD-214 type of statement would be a unitary, standardized record for all reservists.
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She tried to expand and did expand health care coverage to Reservists and members of the National Guard.
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Some reservists say they are not in a position to accept months-long assignments far from their homes.
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Many are police reservists, like Kitonga, issued with rifles by the government to beef up the overstretched police.
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Army reservists are then required to take these weapons to regular shooting practice until the age of 34.
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And the defense contractor L3 Technologies has been accused of discriminating against reservists because of their service obligations.
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Mattis also said that the majority of training for US military reservists would be canceled during a shutdown.
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By comparison, South Korea has 628,000 active soldiers, most of whom are also conscripts, and 4.5 million reservists.
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Interior Minister Bernard Cazenueve on Saturday called on "patriotic citizens" to become reservists to help relieve exhausted security forces.
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This time, Israel has already sent two brigades to Israel's south and plans to call up thousands of reservists.
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In response to the construction of the Berlin Wall, thousands of military reservists and National Guardsmen had been activated.
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This bomb did go off, deleting data that prevented US Army reservists from being paid and deployed on time.
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The new law also provides increased GI Bill benefits for Reservists and Guardsmen, dependents, surviving spouses and surviving dependents.
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About 1003 reservists, or one of every 2100 workers, ignored FEMA's deployment request, current and former officials told Reuters.
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"You just have nobody there to protect the reservists' interests," Mark Coast, a 22019 year Marine reservist, told Spann.
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I'm guessing media reporters and other diligent reservists in the press corps will find a number of such examples.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday put military reservists on formal standby as it seeks to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
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This is the first time in Australia's history that military reservists have been called up to respond to fires.
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To bolster the local forces, the Australian military sent in its own aircraft and vessels and 3,000 army reservists.
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The militants had attacked a bus carrying police reservists near Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, before breaking into a training institute.
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There are approximately 70,000 Special Ops personnel today, a number that includes soldiers, civilians, National Guard and Reservists, as well.
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The Israeli military said it was assigning two brigades to the Gaza area and some reservists were being called up.
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That's because active-duty troops and reservists will make up just one percent of the electorate in the November election.
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Besides the army, Lithuanian police officers and firefighters are also required to complete a month of military training as reservists.
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The president can override this, and many argue Trump should have ordered tens of thousands of reservists to the island.
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As many as 4,500 Army reservists have been brought in to complement the Puerto Rican National Guard, says Brig. Gen.
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As President, Trump will have access to nuclear codes, an ability to send our military and our reservists into combat.
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While reservists get an annual DOD statement of total points accrued, at retirement time, the Pentagon still does an audit.
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They cannot legally drive or find work, a problem for reservists, who do not draw a full-time military paycheck.
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They are "reservists" in the federal reserve (the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force reserve) and the National Guard.
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Prospective employees need to go through a background check and reservists say the process of becoming a reservist can take months.
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Even during a disaster, when recruiting is scaled up, reservists say it can take weeks for the process to go through.
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But the options for special operations veterans and reservists aren't what they were in the early years of the Iraq War.
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Lenovo is also offering a 15 percent discount off the entire purchase for Active Military, Reservists, Veterans, and immediate family members.
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About 2,000 of the group's fighters, out of a total of perhaps 15,000 (excluding reservists), have died on Syria's front lines.
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A spokesman for the IDF confirmed that reservists have been called to assist police and fire services with resources and manpower.
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North Korea has the fourth largest military in the world at over a million strong with more than seven million reservists.
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Of particular concern is the possible strain on civilian medical personnel that calling up the National Guard and reservists could have.
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LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday put military reservists on formal standby as it seeks to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
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More Israeli forces were sent to bolster deployments around Gaza, and reservists were called up, suggesting preparations for an escalating conflict.
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The commission has recommended that the Army maintain no fewer than 6900,2628 active-duty troops and no fewer than 28503,22019 reservists.
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The service is so unpopular that more than 1,000 reservists were charged in the last three years for dodging mandatory retraining.
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There are normally between 2,000 and 6,000 Air Force reservists and other personnel on base at any given time, Covington said.
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For military personnel, national guard reservists, family members and veterans, Pandora is offering a $7.99 per month price for the Premium service.
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"You basically have the fox guarding the hen house, and you just have nobody there to protect the reservists' interests," he said.
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They said the federal military mission was over and any remaining tasks could be taken over by reservists and the National Guard.
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Each day 20 veterans, servicemembers, reservists, and members of the National Guard die by suicide-- totaling more than 7,300 deaths per year.
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The problem is that such mobilizations take medical reservists away from their civilian medical activities thus weakening some localities while strengthening others.
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Military reservists were also activated and missile defense batteries in northern Israel were placed on high alert, suggesting preparations for war. 3.
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Some immigrant US Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged.
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Two other reservists from the same unit later tested positive for coronavirus and are now in isolation, Fort Bliss officials said Sunday.
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Under mounting pressure, Morrison in January deployed 6,500 military reservists to support state authorities - which he said created a "constitutional gray zone".
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About 3,000 army reservists, along with aircraft and naval ships, are being made available to help with the evacuation and firefighting efforts.
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The Poughkeepsie Journal in New York said Marine reservists from the nearby Stewart Air National Guard Base were also on the plane.
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In fiscal year 2084, the US Air Force was granted an authorized end strength of 22016,22 active airmen, 20120,2653 reservists, and 2265,2000 guardsmen.
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It proposed raising the number of military reservists to 23,000, and using government payment for university education as an inducement to sign up.
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A team of US Air Force reservists witnessed the unwelcome birth Thursday of Hurricane Hermine in the skies above the Gulf of Mexico.
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"We are drafting reservists in specific cases, as required," a military spokeswoman told Reuters, without elaborating on the scale of the call-up.
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Four Democratic senators announced a bill Tuesday, ahead of Veterans Day, that would better protect reservists from unfair employment practices caused by deployments.
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"The numbers, time and procedure for convening these operational reservists is being decided by the Directorate General of the National Gendarmerie," Valls said.
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Unlike military reservists, those who work for FEMA don't have a guarantee that their regular jobs will be available when they return home.
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Officials have also asked Congress to change hiring laws to give reservists preferential status when they apply for a full-time FEMA job.
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Sherwin Williams: Get 15% off on paints, stains, and painting supplies to those currently serving, are reservists, or have served in the military.
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Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan said military reservists might be called in, but details of the assistance had yet to be worked out.
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About 29,103 army reservists, along with aircraft and naval ships, are also being made available to help with the evacuation and firefighting efforts.
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We cannot afford to leave reservists without guaranteed access to the benefits they earned, and which may help maintain their readiness to serve.
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The local Home Depot chipped in another $100 toward Salgado's new equipment, and offered military discounts because several of the officers are reservists.
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The annual exercise, which has been running since 2013, has so far enabled France to recruit 35 percent of the reservists it needs.
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Some special operations reservists are known to engage in for-profit soldiering, said a high-level SEAL officer who asked not to be named.
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Reuven Gal was a platoon commander in the Jerusalem Brigade, a unit of reservists from the city who fought within earshot of their homes.
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The IDF wants to expand the number of full-timers, both to maximise front-line combat troops and to reduce the burden on reservists.
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Reservists are allowed to turn down up to three assignments each year, meaning FEMA cannot count on a full reserve force during peak periods.
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The KASP are structured similar to the US National Guard, with about 500 professional soldiers and 5,000 reservists, but have a very different mission.
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For the first time in Australian history, 3,593 army, navy and air force reservists will also be thrown into the fight against the fires.
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And while reservists cannot now receive retirement health care until age 60, there is pending legislation that would fix this issue, House Bill 5169.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Saturday that 3,000 reservists from the Australian military would be called up to help with the firefighting efforts.
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Since many of those reservists are in Israel's army, it's therefore possible that the country plans to launch a ground invasion of Gaza very soon.
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Wood said the county's reserve deputy program has been restored with more stringent controls and procedures, including that reservists now ride with full-time deputies.
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Clarksville, a southern Indiana town just north of Louisville, Kentucky, began using body cameras in 242 for its 260 full-time officers and 290 reservists.
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Cazeneuve said security forces will be focusing on school surroundings and that 3,000 gendarme reservists will be deployed to reinforce other forces including the police.
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More than 220006 million American servicemen and women (active duty, National Guard, and reservists) have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since the wars began.
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The news comes one month after the AP reported the Army had discharged dozens of immigrant recruits and reservists, putting their immigration status at risk.
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Still, it remains 3,700 workers short of the 10,949 reservists it has determined it needs to be able to respond to several disasters at once.
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Military suicides among Army reservists have ticked up from last year, according to new third-quarter data for 2900 released by the Pentagon on Monday.
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Red Lobster: The seafood chain will offer veterans, active-duty military and reservists a free appetizer or dessert on Veterans Day from a special menu.
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Yes. Eligibility for the new blended system is based on the number of retirement points earned by reservists and those serving in the National Guard.
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Many were reservists who had been attending unit drills, receiving pay and undergoing training, while others had been in a "delayed entry" program, she said.
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Jeffrey C. Coggin, deputy commander of the civil affairs command, largely staffed by reservists, who is to run the unit with its commander, Maj. Gen.
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Australia called up 3,000 army reservists to help conduct evacuations and fight bushfires as a growing number of residents are endangered by the expanding blazes.
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The national government on Saturday began calling up 3,000 army reservists to conduct evacuations and help people in remote areas affected by the wildfire emergency.
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According to the occupants, the site accommodated 20 homeless Greeks ages 17 to 74, and 45 "guards," chiefly Greek Army reservists with right-wing views.
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In 2015, the program expanded: 20,000 soldiers and reservists across American bases within the continental US were tagged to participate, according to the Army Times.
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Trump took first place, with 2900 percent of troops surveyed in a poll of 220006 active-duty troops, reservists and members of the National Guard.
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In honor of the holiday, they are offering an additional 10 percent discount off your entire purchase for active military, reservists, veterans, and immediate family members.
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The lawmakers argued that while past presidents routinely sent Guardsmen and reservists to the border, it's unusual to use active-duty troops as Trump has done.
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Vets and Reservists was riddled with police officers, as well as people working with the Red Squad (police intelligence units) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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In 1947, a group of Marine Reservists lead by Major Bill Hendricks collected around 5,000 toys and handed them out to underprivileged children in Los Angeles.
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He tried to file a lawsuit against the company for violating a federal law that requires employers to hold a job for reservists who are deployed.
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In 2017, he falsely claimed the United States military was preparing to mobilize 150,000 reservists, possibly for a war against Syria or North Korea or Russia.
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Administration officials also said that federal forces — active-duty military and National Guard and reservists — had joined officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help.
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The nearly two million reservists exist in name only: They are underequipped, not assigned to actual units, and most have not been called up for retraining.
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Hezbollah has more than 100,000 rockets and missiles pointed at Israel, in addition to 30,000 trained fighters and a smaller number of reservists, said Brig. Gen.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Saturday that 3,000 army reservists were being called into action to help with evacuations and to fight the bush fires.
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The guards, known as the National Police Reservists, or NPR, risk their lives daily to protect the rhinos from poachers who come after their valuable horns.
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Where the reservists once stood guard at the entrance, there was now only a small blue highway sign that labeled the center a POINT OF INTEREST.
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Swiss men, most of whom do an annual stint as army reservists, may keep a weapon under their bed at home when they are not on duty.
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Heavily militarized country North Korea's internationally isolated regime is a heavily militarized state with a huge standing army of 1.2 million active soldiers and 7.7 million reservists.
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He told reporters the LNA was calling in reservists to open new fronts on Tripoli and said it would use artillery and infantry in the next days.
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Highly-trained teams of doctors and nurses—usually reservists whose days jobs are in civilian hospitals—can roll the units onto essentially all large military cargo planes.
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Tens of thousands of National Guardsmen, reservists and active-duty federal military personnel responded to the storms, providing search and rescue recovery assistance in the affected areas.
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There will also be 58 reservists who have "self-identified as being members of the clinical community helping their local jurisdiction with COVID-10," said Rear Adm.
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Both attacks were claimed by Somali Islamist insurgents, who also kidnapped three Kenyan police reservists on Friday from the same area, in Wajir district in northeast Kenya.
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He and his staff have been calling in reservists for medical checks to make sure they are in fit condition should the government order a general mobilization.
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They, and hundreds of thousands of reservists, look to their commanders, their comrades and their training to find the proper course in the face of great challenges.
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Yet many — uncountable hundreds of thousands — of reservists who have honorably served their nation in peace and war cannot satisfy the requirement for issuance of the form.
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North Korea has 5.7 million reservists, according to the IISS Military Balance 2016, most of whom are part of the under-equipped, paramilitary Worker-Peasant Red Guard.
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Last year, he authored a news story stating the US military was preparing to mobilize 150,000 reservists for a possible war against Syria, Iran, North Korea, or Russia.
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With the new law in place, Kosovo will set up a defence ministry and the future army is to be comprised of 5,000 active soldiers and 3,000 reservists.
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With the new law in place, Kosovo will set up a defense ministry and the future army is to be comprised of 5,000 active soldiers and 3,000 reservists.
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" When the U.S. imposed new sanctions, this summer, Maduro responded by calling up reservists for two days of national military exercises, in preparation for a possible "imperialist invasion.
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The strategic reserve has existed since the Cold War — in essence since after the first world war; it's the genesis of the "weekend warrior" tag affixed to reservists.
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On Thursday morning, Mr. Hollande met with lawmakers to discuss the possibility of establishing a National Guard of volunteer reservists, including retired gendarmes, to help protect the nation.
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Rejuvenate the reservist corps The federal government's response to disasters depends on the successful mobilization of hundreds of disaster reservists – dedicated volunteers who are paid only when deployed.
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The country is not mobilizing troops on its northern border or calling up reservists, and Mr. Netanyahu has given no indication that he sees a conflict as imminent.
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"The soldiers have all they need, as do the reservists," he said, explaining that the army had heavily restocked after equipment scarcities during the Lebanon war in 2006.
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The Defense Department provides all of those things for the military personnel at Guantánamo, mostly National Guard forces and reservists who come and go on nine-month rotations.
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This enables reservists to qualify for retirement pay as early as age 50, still well beyond the age at which most active-duty servicemembers receive their retirement pay.
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In July, a KC-130 Hercules transport plane crashed in Mississippi, killing 16 service members, including reservists from New York state and active-duty Marines based in North Carolina.
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Photo: APGovernor David Ige has responded to the eruption by signing an emergency proclamation, releasing disaster funds, and calling military reservists from National Guard to help with the evacuations.
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Reservists make up more than half of the agency's total workforce, but aren't paid as much as contractors or permanent FEMA staff and, until 2012, didn't get health benefits.
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Today, the missions are carried out largely by Air Force reservists who, after a few days or weeks of chasing storms, return to their jobs in the civilian world.
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"This is a ruse, because it doesn't take into account the 24,000 active duty and 13,000 reservists that Congress added in last year's enacted" National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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A state of emergency imposed across France after the November attacks in Paris has been extended by three months, and military and police reservists are to be called up.
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We should expect that our veterans and our serving reservists in Congress seek ways to work together — on matters of national defense and matters far afield from the military.
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"There are so many cases out there that don't get looked at — the reservists shrug their shoulders, move on, take the hit, don't talk about it," Mr. Kay said.
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The federal government announced an unprecedented call up of army reservists to support firefighters as well other resources including a third navy ship equipped for disaster and humanitarian relief.
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Bankers who serve as reservists can also benefit financially, making a few thousand dollars a year in extra income – as well as a pension, if they stay for twenty years.
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Hundreds of military reservists have been called up to help emergency responders with fighting the blazes, attending to injuries and going door to door informing people that they must evacuate.
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"Today is Armed Forces Day – celebrating the men and women who make up the military community: from those that are serving, to families, veterans, reservists, cadets and charities," they wrote.
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In the survey of 951 active-duty troops, reservists and National Guardsmen, 21625 percent said they would vote for Trump in a match-up against Clinton, the Democratic front-runner.
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Two armed police reservists live in Choro's community, but the nearest police station is more than 20 km away — more than an hour by car across the rutted, trackless land.
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In the survey of 951 active-duty troops, reservists and National Guardsmen, 54 percent said they would vote for Trump in a match-up against Clinton, the Democratic front-runner.
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Yes, but: As many of the immigrant recruits and reservists had not yet gone through their basic training, according to the AP, they had not yet earned qualification for citizenship.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant US Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.
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As reservists, the team will not be deployed full time, but will be attached to military units as conditions dictate, including in war zones where they could come under fire.
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In response to the devastation, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Saturday that roughly 3,000 army reservists were being called into action to fight the fires and help with evacuations.
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Prisoners were held by United States Marine reservists in extreme heat in a dirty, stone building that had been looted of all amenities by Iraqis during the American-led invasion.
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To counter that threat, the Israeli military said it has mobilized private drone-racers as army reservists, who then try to ram into the kites with the remote-controlled aircraft.
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One of the most gruesome episodes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict occurred sixteen years ago when two Israeli army reservists accidentally drove into Ramallah and were lynched by an angry crowd.
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After Thursday's attack, a state of emergency imposed across France after the November attacks in Paris was extended by three months and military and police reservists were to be called up.
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At multiple Army bases across the country this month, more than 1000 reserve officers are practicing how to set up so-called mobilization centers, which move reservists overseas in a hurry.
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Kramp-Karrenbauer said the military had already contacted hundreds of medical reservists and would be able to protect critical infrastructure and distribute medical equipment, medicines and masks should this become necessary.
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Thousands of emergency responders, including local volunteers and Federal Emergency Management Agency reservists, are also missing courses in firefighting and emergency response at centers in Georgia, Maryland and Alabama right now.
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The federal government has announced an unprecedented call-up of army reservists to support firefighters and has deployed additional resources, including a third navy ship equipped for disaster and humanitarian relief.
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The size of the Army should not fall below 450,000 active-duty troops and 85003,000 reservists for the foreseeable future, according to a long-awaited report by a congressionally appointed commission.
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Pandora's Student Plan is available to eligible students for up to four years, while the Military Plan will be offered to active duty service members, reservists, retirees, veterans, and military family members.
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To address this issue, the Department of Transportation recently launched a pilot program that would let America's military veterans and reservists who are trained drivers take their skills into the commercial marketplace.
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On Sunday, the IDF announced it was reinforcing its Iron Dome aerial defense batteries in central and southern Israel, and calling up a small number of reservists to operate the added deployment.
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These individuals joined FEMA in a true spirit of public service, but many have no interest in constant deployments, resulting in thousands of resignations and, today, a shortage of immediately deployable reservists.
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Almost 372,000 security personnel will be deployed to ensure those going to the polls are protected, including around 135,000 reservists and four thousand personnel each from the Pakistan Air Force and Navy.
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The Pentagon has said as they deploy medical units it wants to ensure military bases still have sufficient medical care, and if reservists are called up that local communities are not impacted.
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Organizers last week canceled the contract of the relatively unknown security firm, Artel, which was supposed to check credentials and bags at the entrance to stadiums, replacing them with military police reservists.
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The poll was taken after Morrison announced a A$2 billion bushfire recovery fund and called out 22010,211 army reservists to back up state emergency workers - responses that were viewed as belated.
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Then the wagon door was flung open and out spilled a gaggle of reservists—they didn't look like soldiers; they looked like armored accountants, flabby and uncomfortably corseted in their flak vests.
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He said a friend in American national security circles told him Mr. Trump had called up reservists and that he checked with an expert he knew in Italy who said it was true.
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The Israeli military said that it had deployed two search-and-rescue battalions from its Home Front Command to assist evacuation efforts, and that it had called up reservists to help fight the fires.
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The VA is "preparing for a national call on this matter," Wilkie said in a telephone interview, likening the personnel to military reservists who can be called up by the president at any time.
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"What I don't want to do is take reservists from a hospital where they are needed just to put them on a ship to take them somewhere else where they are needed," he said.
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The government announced over the weekend that it was deploying more military assets, at a scale not seen since World War II, experts say, with about 193,000 army reservists being made available to help.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Saturday that the country was calling up the reservists as well as deploying three Navy ships and several planes and helicopters to help with operations surrounding the fires.
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It comprises three elements: a conscript army of young men and women performing national service; a professional officer corps; and a large contingent of reservists, who undertake short, annual stints of training and patrol duties.
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According to the report, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is employing the services of the Spear Operations Group, a Delaware-incorporated firm which hires American special operation reservists and veterans to carry out targeted killings.
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At least 40 immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits have been discharged or now have questionable futures in the country despite having been promised citizenship in exchange for their military service, the Associated Press reports.
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Kathryn Piscitelli, an employment lawyer, said the settlement was the first she had encountered in a class-action case that challenged hiring practices for reservists under the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act.
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The poll was taken after Morrison announced a A$2 billion ($22010 billion) bushfire recovery fund and called out 211,20.2 army reservists to back up state emergency workers - responses that were viewed as too slow.
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Largely an artifact of the Cold War, when reservists were in the "strategic reserve" and rarely, if ever, mobilized, the "28500-day requirement" now prevents equity in a force whose deployments have reached unprecedented levels.
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The DOD will likely address this concern by calling on activated reservists for this mission, freeing DOJ attorneys to concentrate on felony prosecutions and leaving active duty JAGs in place to perform their military duties.
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Higginbotham describes an excruciating aftermath, as Pripyat's residents were coaxed into a "temporary" evacuation and middle-aged reservists were drafted into a haphazard cleanup process — though "cleanup" doesn't convey the perilous, Sisyphean ordeal they faced.
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If another disaster hit, FEMA reservists in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Texas, and Florida could be relocated on short notice, which would mean pulling workers out of areas that still have not recovered from 2017.
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More than 600 US Air Force guardsmen, reservists and active-duty airmen completed a new fighter exercise February 7 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, featuring the integration of the world's most advanced, fifth-generation airframes.
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Last Thursday, the Associated Press reported that more than 40 US Army reservists and recruits who had been promised a path to citizenship when they joined the military had been "abruptly discharged" without being told why.
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The gunmen were unable to take control of the police station in the old city of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's northernmost state of Jammu & Kashmir, but did wound six police reservists in the attack.
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It may seem simple to state that merely "enhancement opportunities" can change the lives of our nation's our 2628 million veterans and their families, and prepare our 28503 million U.S. active duty service members and reservists.
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The ships are typically staffed by US Navy reservists or civilian volunteers, and staffing them could present challenges if those personnel are drawn from the civilian medical work force that is actively responding to the crisis.
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"It has been a struggle for FEMA to make sure that we have enough disaster responders in reserve," Gaynor testified, later adding that FEMA "trained a thousand reservists to be ready for hurricane season" last spring.
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The country has deployed troops to a level not seen since World War II and has called in the help of about 3,000 army reservists, as well as aircraft and naval ships, according to the Times.
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At the upper end of the estimates, there are as many as 11,000 transgender active duty service members and reservists who will be affected by the decision, according to a RAND Corporation study cited by the Pentagon.
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In spite of severe economic stagnation, North Korea has put much focus on its military, carrying a huge standing army of 1.2 million plus 7.7 million reservists, more than a third of the country's 25 million people.
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Why it matters: The number of immigrant reservists and recruits being discharged from the Army appears to be a trend, but there is no clear indication that there has been any policy change under the Trump administration.
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Earlier Monday, the Israeli military said it was deploying an additional infantry brigade and an armored brigade to bolster forces around the Palestinian coastal territory, and was calling up a limited number of reservists from specialized units.
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As part of the proposed deal, the company has agreed to pay a total of $22017 million to Mr. Kay and up to about 23 qualified reservists who have applied for jobs since 23 but weren't hired.
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Over all, the plaintiffs estimated that during the period they examined, L3 made offers to about 1,000 pilots for the job Mr. Kay sought, but that only about 100 were reservists, out of several hundred who applied.
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Deployment is largely voluntary — FEMA reservists can turn down jobs — and so the agency believes it can only rely on about 60 to 70 percent of its reserves to actually deploy when asked to at any given time.
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Israel has drafted in civilian drone enthusiasts as army reservists, instructing them to fly their remote-controlled aircraft into the kites, an Israeli general said, but an effective means to stop the kites has yet to be found.
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The U.N. report questioned why an end-user certificate from Djibouti cleared the transfer of up to 80,000 pistols to the Ministry of Defense, when the country's armed forces consist of just 16,000 active personnel and 9,500 reservists.
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Ukraine has introduced martial law in parts of the country for 30 days, and Poroshenko said on Saturday military reservists in those areas would practice mobilizing and that military factories would be changing the way they worked too.
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In the memo from FEMA chief Brock Long to agency personnel, officials are called on to mobilize every member of FEMA's hundreds-strong force of reservists to prepare for cleanup and evacuation assistance for storm responses this year.
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But there were so many other organizations in New York City spied upon, like my group, Vets and Reservists to End the War in Vietnam, an organization that included vets of all wars up to and including Vietnam.
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But it agreed to several changes, including no longer asking about military status before extending job offers, training workers on the employment rights of reservists and making it easier for employees to schedule work around their military obligations.
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Special Services Division, asserted that undercover officers had violated the civil rights of members of groups like the Black Panther Party and Veterans and Reservists Against the War in Vietnam by spying on, infiltrating and disrupting their activities.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Australian government said on Saturday that up to 3,000 army reservists would be deployed to help communities hit by spreading wildfires and a third navy ship had been readied to support evacuations from coastal towns.
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In the following months, thousands of FEMA reservists, who account for about half of the agency's disaster-response personnel, would descend on Florida, Puerto Rico, California and elsewhere to help recovery efforts after an unprecedented string of natural disasters.
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As of this week, several thousand reservists have yet to be fully activated in response to the coronavirus outbreak, but former FEMA officials say it would be a mistake to view that as a lack of urgency or preparation.
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According to the proposed settlement, L20153 disagreed with the plaintiffs' analysis on methodological grounds, such as which applicants should have been classified as reservists, and said the gap in hiring was attributable to other factors, like disparities in experience.
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All active duty members -- including Public Health Service officers, US Navy chaplains attached to the Coast Guard, reservists on Active Duty for Operational Support and their spouses, and civilian employees -- are eligible for the reimbursement program, the Coast Guard said.
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Once launched, the new command will work alongside both the cyber branch of Estonia's Defence League, composed entirely of volunteers, and conscripts and reservists in the Estonian military who specialize in cyber to take on a full range of cyber operations.
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Breaking the Silence, a group of reservists who bear witness to what they have seen and had to do while in uniform, tell many disturbing stories, from the petty humiliation of Palestinians to actions that might count as war crimes.
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Mr. Crotty, who was an intelligence officer in the Army's Ranger Regiment and then served in the Washington Army National Guard, said contractors frequently hire former active military personnel in senior positions, and these veterans often harbor a bias against reservists.
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While it has done little outwardly to develop its economy, North Korea has put a lot of focus on its military, carrying a huge standing army of 1.2 million active soldiers plus 7.7 million reservists in a country of 25 million people.
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The reservists, Lance Corporals Craig Roberts and Edward Maher and Corporal James Dunsby, died after an arduous march in rugged terrain on the Brecon Beacons, a remote area of central Wales, in July 2013 on one of the hottest days of the year.
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But he points out that 2,500 army reservists are on active duty and about 5,000 members of the National Guard -- from Puerto Rico and elsewhere -- are working on the island, too, as the recovery mission continues under the long-term leadership of FEMA.
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Last month, hundreds of troops from member countries and partners, including France, Norway, Finland and Sweden, joined Canadian soldiers, reservists and rangers for the Nanook-Nunalivut exercises that aimed in part to help alliance forces match Russian readiness in extreme-cold climes.
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A chart in the Department of Defense Suicide Event Report for 2017 shows that from 2015 to 2017 the Air Force had about 60 active duty suicides per year, about 10 among reservists and 12 to 61999 suicides among the Air Guard.
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The man, a reservist gendarme named Vincent Crase, was also an employee of Mr. Macron's political party, La République en Marche, according to Mr. Roger-Petit, who said Mr. Crase was "occasionally mobilized, like other reservists" to help with the president's security.
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Because so many FEMA reservists are still deployed in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Houston, and because it takes FEMA months to hire and train a new reservist, it will be hard to expand that workforce quickly should disaster strike again in 22017.
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"One wonders if active-duty military personnel and reservists, who are embedded in a rich social milieu that, if nothing else, is hardly isolating, are likely to have their perceptions of belongingness altered by 11 text messages over a year," Stein and his coauthors write.
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By expanding benefits for those seeking science, technology, engineering or math degrees and providing eligibility to Purple Heart recipients and reservists who served less than three years active duty, politicians are incentivizing these individuals to pursue degrees that are needed in the fast-paced economy.
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The Associated Press reported that more than 220006 immigrant recruits and reservists had been discharged from their service, with some unaware as to why they were discharged and some told they were labeled a "security risk" because of relatives abroad or incomplete background checks.
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This trip stands as a reminder to all Americans, particularly on Veterans Day, to be grateful for our freedoms and to recognize the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coast guardsmen, national guardsmen, reservists and families – past and present – who sacrifice to preserve our way of life.
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To that end, she highlighted the importance of the statistical evidence the plaintiffs collected, which showed that reservists had been hired at a lower rate than veterans with no ongoing military obligations, though at a higher rate than civilians with no military experience, since 2011.
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Over the weekend, he said the government would deploy 3,000 military reservists, along with aircraft and navy vessels, in one of the largest uses of military assets at home since World War II. The bush fires mirror what other places have witnessed in recent years.
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As Mr. Trump announced his decision, Israel put its troops on "high alert," called up reservists, set up Iron Dome batteries and instructed the authorities in the Golan Heights to prepare public bomb shelters after detecting what it said was irregular activity by Iranian forces.
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Margaret D. Stock, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who also was involved in creating Mavni, said she believed the government was violating a segment of the law that says Army reservists are eligible for citizenship as soon as they begin serving.
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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison called up about 3,000 reservists as the threat of wildfires escalated Saturday in at least three states with two more deaths, and strong winds and high temperatures were forecast to bring flames to populated areas including the suburbs of Sydney.
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On the parade ground, she met two goats, the regimental mascots, Shenkin and Llywelyn, and presented ceremonial leeks, wrapped in red thread and dipped in gold, to 12 representatives of the "regimental family" — two cadets, five serving soldiers, two reservists, one Canadian exchange officer and two veterans.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Bosnia's Serb entity on Monday withdrew a bill to set up a reserve police force under pressure from Western peace envoys who said it would be divisive, with memories still fresh of reservists' role in ethnic cleansing during the 1992-95 war.
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Her most lasting achievements as a senator include a federal fund for long-term health monitoring of 9/11 first responders, an expansion of military benefits to cover reservists and the National Guard, and a law requiring drug companies to improve the safety of their medications for children.
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Since it's situated on an island outside the United States, the Pentagon has to send guards on rotations there — usually National Guardsmen or reservists — as well as account for costs like Coast Guard patrols of the nearby waters, medical staff, lawyers, chaplains, and all the requisite support staff.
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All 107 lawmakers present in Kosovo's 120-seat Parliament, which is dominated by ethnic Albanian parties, voted to back the government's plan to transform the 3,000-strong, lightly armed Kosovo Security Force into an army that would grow to 5,1003 active troops and 3,000 reservists in the next decade.
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While reservists don't receive a DD-214 upon separation that captures their complete record, they may request a letter from their service (such as the Army) reflecting this information — but no standard Department of Defense-approved separation form exists; thus, the reservist must ask for a non-standard record.
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Mr. Trump pulled out of the agreement on Tuesday, and that day Israel put its troops on "high alert," called up reservists, set up Iron Dome antimissile batteries and warned the authorities in the Golan Heights to prepare bomb shelters after detecting what it said was irregular activity by Iranian forces.
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If the PLA held a position on Taiwan, and could reinforce with troops from the mainland to face off about 150,000 Taiwan troops, as well as more than 2.5 million reservists, it would have to push through the island's western mud flats and mountains, with only narrow roads to assist them, towards Taipei.
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The first time I had to turn in a tax return after seeing those photos of Iraqi prisoners of war being tortured by United States Army reservists, I stood in front of a mail box for 45 minutes, hesitating to contribute to the federal coffers and envying the folk singer Pete Seeger.
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But on the day "Third Watch" executive producer Christopher Chulack saw him from the backseat of a NYPD police car as he drove up to Ground Zero -- escorted by dust-covered New York City police officer Mike Keenan at the wheel -- a fresh swarm of uniformed reservists had just descended upon the area.
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The government said over the weekend that it was calling up about 3,000 army reservists, along with aircraft and naval ships — its largest military deployment since World War II. But many Australians are angry over what they see as a nonchalant and ineffectual response to the blazes by Scott Morrison, the prime minister.
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After months of raging bushfires that have ravaged more than 10.3 million hectares (1403 million acres) of land, an area roughly the size of South Korea, Morrison in early January announced a A$2 billion ($1.4 billion) bushfire recovery fund and called out 3,22010 army reservists to back up state emergency workers.
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North Korea's military, while outclassed by the combined might of the United States and South Korea, is still one of the world's largest — boasting 1.2 million active service members, 7.7 million reservists, and roughly 21,500 artillery pieces (many of which are pointed right at Seoul, home to 10 million people and South Korea's capital).
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Navy postpones drill for most reservists for two months"We've effectively employed similar joint capabilities in the past to counter belligerent forces that attempt to disrupt or hinder the free flow of commerce and freedom of navigation in this region using force, or attack US, coalition, or partner forces in a conflict," said US 5th Fleet commander Vice Adm.
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In the bleak 1970s, when Protestant murder gangs were targeting innocent Catholics, including several of his friends, and Irish Republican Army gunmen stalked police reservists and part-time soldiers he'd known all his life, Mr. Mallon made a point of attending the funerals of all of the victims in his area — Catholic or Protestant, nationalist or unionist.
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Anticipating an Iranian attack along its border with Syria, Israel's military late Tuesday said it put its troops on "high alert," called up some reservists, set up Iron Dome antimissile batteries and warned local authorities in the Golan Heights to unlock and ready bomb shelters following the detection of what it said was irregular activity of Iranian forces.
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Other major provisions include the lifting of a 15-year limit on benefit use, as well as the expansion of tuition assistance and other benefits for Purple Heart recipients; certain National Guard and military reservists who deploy on active duty; families of soldiers who die in the line of duty; and veterans pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.
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While calls for the military to aid in the US response to the pandemic have increased in recent days, defense officials say their first priority is maintaining the health, welfare and "readiness" of the 1.36 million members of the active duty military, as well as the 800,000 members of the National Guard and Reservists in addition to some 730,000 civilian employees in the Department of Defense.
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The Democratic lawmakers argued that while past presidents routinely sent Guardsmen and reservists to the border, it's unusual to use active-duty troops as President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has done.
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"If there were to be a government shutdown, the most immediate impact is that the DoD can't spend any money," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, D.C. She said a shutdown would mean military personnel on active duty wouldn't get paid, civilians wouldn't get paid, and pay for the National Guard and reservists who perform training and drilling functions would be impacted too.
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That doesn't even take into consideration, Bennett added, the many reservists on both sides of the alliance — for whom the military is not a full-time role, but who fill key roles in the war plans — and the thousands of American troops, including a huge contingent of the country's ground forces, who travel to Korea from other parts of Asia and the U.S. and do not focus exclusively on the Korean problem set.
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