| Submit your comments on this article |
| Axis of Evil |
| Britain to Call Up 1,000 Army Reservists |
| 2002-10-20 |
| Britain will begin calling upon reservists for possible military action against Iraq within ten days, according to a report in a British newspaper. Around 1,000 reserve troops will receive their call-up papers by the end of the month, the Sunday Telegraph said. âWeâve got to move on this by the end of the month to keep to the timetable,â the weekly broadsheet quoted a senior defense ministry official as saying. A timetable. I like that idea... Civilian employers of reservistsâ need some two months notice to arrange cover, the paper said, adding that most of the part-time soldiers were likely to be specialist staff needed to supplement the armyâs under-strength medical service. The army is said to be particularly short of surgeons and anesthetists. Here's hoping all the injuries they get to treat are bumps, scrapes, and colds... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Gee, we are getting close. And I haven't heard a peep out of Nancy Snyderman this time about how on earth the MASH units would be able to handle the thousand and thousands of maimed and brualised US forces...Remember her back in '91? |
| Posted by: Jack 2002-10-21 05:41:22 |
| #1 or on POW's |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-10-20 11:38:05 |