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When you enlist, you enlist for 8 years. The actual time you will spend on active duty is determined by your contract. The remaining years are spent in what is known as the IRR (Inactive Ready Reserve), from which you may be called up at the governments convenience. All a stop-loss is doing is keeping people active during their IRR time. It is perfectly legal, yet often misunderstood.
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First of all Debaser the IRR and Stop Loss are completely different because the IRR could call up former service members that have already transitioned to civilian life. There are seperate DOD regulations that grant this authority. You can also be kept on active duty after your time IRR would have ended under stop loss. Stop Loss affects perssonnel who are retiring as well and they have definatly served over 8 years.
Second, the stop loss that began this thread was inacted on units with deployment orders and not specific miltary occupational specalties. The service members who are affected by this Stop Loss will deploy with there units and remain with them unitl they redploy and then 90 days after that they will be allowed to seperate.
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Your buddies need to take the war with the bennies. I hear it all the time "When I joined I didn't EXPECT to have to go to war" I just wanted the school.
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-Don't join the girl scouts and expect to NOT sell cookies-
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Boo You are absolutely right 
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Last edited by Carlo Marx; 01-02-2004 at 07:00 PM..
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