The White House said Friday that the 3,000 reservists President Biden has made available for the Pentagon to deploy to Europe would serve “administrative” functions.
“These are people that are specialists in things like administrative functions, logistics, supply, maybe medical, dental, those kinds of things,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told Fox News. “The kind of enabling functions that you need to support and sustain a large troop presence for a long time.”
President Biden signed the executive order to support Operation Atlantic Resolve, the name for US military operations in Europe that are a response to events in Ukraine. The mission was first established in 2014 after the US-backed ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych led to Russia annexing Crimea and the civil war in the Donbas region.
Since February 2022, the US has deployed over 20,000 additional troops to Europe, bringing US troop levels on the continent to over 100,000 for the first time since 2005. President Biden’s order suggests that the US military is strained by maintaining a large troop presence in Europe.
Out of the 3,000 reservists, up to 450 could be pulled from what is known as Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). People in the IRR have previously served active duty but have a reserve commitment they need to fulfill as part of their contract. “In essence, they are now civilians,” a retired Army Reserve general told The War Zone.
“They do not own uniforms, they do not have units, they do not take physical fitness tests, they don’t take physical examinations, they are just like you and me doing their day-to-day jobs thinking that their military time is behind them,” the retired general added.
President Biden’s order came after he was in Europe for a NATO summit in Lithuania, where the alliance vowed to further beef up its “eastern flank,” which refers to eastern European countries that border Russia and Ukraine. The US is also looking to gain a foothold in Finland, NATO’s newest member that shares an over 800-miles border with Russia.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) criticized President Biden’s order and the overall US military buildup in Europe. “Not only does this run the risk of further locking us into supporting Ukraine, now the military-industrial complex will say the US military presence is THE one thing preventing Russia from crossing NATO’s eastern border & that we have to maintain such presence indefinitely,” he wrote on Twitter.
p.s. FJB
Yeah like the 25,000 advisers /soldiers`s in Vietnam before the yanks started the war with a false flag in the sea of Canton , this could be the start of a build up to take on Russia beginning with a false flag .
So true. Russia will use its nukes if forced to and they will be forced to by the US. Would not happen if the media had allowed Trump to be reelected.
Have you forgotten? Trump withdrew us from the INF treaty. He also sent javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. The only connections he had to Russia were: 1) loans that bailed out his business empire, 2) the d*mn Trump hotel in Moscow that didn’t happen. The man is a sociopath and he is quite transactional. (what’s in it for him)
so … 3000 Corporal Klingers ?
The cross-dressing brigade?
LOL – ok they might be the cross-dressers but they are also the dudes that file every single sheet of paper into its appropriate file. can’t run a planet without those dudes
What? Who is this asshat general? The only thing he was correct about was that I didn’t have a unit. When I reported for duty, I was expected to show up with uniforms, in shape. I occasionally had to take a pt test. Another Obama general I bet.
Foot locker clean. Bed made perfect. Do not call the D.I. “sir”. He is not a commissioned officer. Ever lose weekend pass after inspection because a toilet roll was not torn perfectly?
“White House Says Reservists Will Provide ‘Administrative’ Support Biden signed an order making 3,000 reservists available for the Pentagon to deploy to Europe”
BS just another escalation on the part of senile Joey Biden.
I would advise anyone leaving the military NOT to sign up for the reserves or National Guard.
Picking civilians who are reservists out of a civilian life with a job and family is NOT needed unless America is really at war declared by Congress.
A feckless adventure by NEOCON bureaucrats and Kleptokrat Politicians does not count as a WAR.
Joe Biden isn`t in control , like all Presidents he is just a front the real power you don`t see , because if the American Citizens saw who really was running the show there would be a REVOLUTION .
You give American citizens more credit than they deserve. Most are clueless. “You can fool most of the people most of the time.”
I am beginning to fear the US Congress and who we really elected to do our bidden.
There WILL be American forces (boots) on the ground in Ukraine. There will be body bags in numbers coming to the U.S. Some of the mercenaries killed in Ukraine have been Americans. Some former U.S. military. Fools, all.
Prior to the beginning of war, administrative staff is deployed. Biden is doing everything he can to get the U.S. into the Russia-Ukraine war as it is responsible for it by supporting the ousting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. The military industrial complex needs to be kept fed no matter the cost to human life.
ok i think that nobody has a single clue what anti-war actually entails.
is everybody a stupid MF or is it just me ….
https://youtu.be/lk4Rj9WXjko
US is determined to restart the “Cold War” Eastern Gard again Russia which is no longer a Communist country. The US has kept the “Cold War” mentality in covert activities. There was no European Union to threaten the borders of Russia or Russia to threaten the EU till US involvement.
It HAS started. It began immediately after the Soviet Union dissolved, to become Russia. Again.