{"id":204861,"date":"2020-03-31T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204861"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:34:31","slug":"trump-authorizes-activation-of-up-to-1-million-reservists-to-help-with-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204861","title":{"rendered":"Trump authorizes activation of up to 1 million reservists to help with pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">David Boyer \u2013 Washington Times March 27, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump-Syria-withdrawal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-180848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump-Syria-withdrawal-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump-Syria-withdrawal-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump-Syria-withdrawal-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump-Syria-withdrawal.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>President Trump on Friday issued an executive order authorizing the Pentagon to call up as many as 1 million armed forces reservists to active duty to help deal with the coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The president\u2019s order said the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland security are authorized to order to active duty, \u201cnot to exceed 24 consecutive months,\u201d units and individual members of the Ready Reserve up to 1 million at one time as necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security \u2026 will ensure appropriate consultation is undertaken with relevant state officials with respect to the utilization of National Guard Reserve Component units activated under this authority,\u201d the order states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard are authorized to order units and individual members of the Ready Reserve back to active duty for up to two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Ready Reserve consists primarily of former active-duty service members who were discharged but have a contractual obligation for a recall during a national emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/mar\/27\/trump-authorizes-activation-of-up-to-1-million-res\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little noticed and under the pretext of fighting the corona pandemic, Trump is putting the U.S. on a war footing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204864,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204861\/revisions\/204864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}