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Citing emergency powers, President Donald Trump signed an executive order late in the day on Friday that would allow retired military pilots to be recalled to active duty.
But the broad wording of the executive order seemed to imply that the executive branch would have the power to call up retired military officers and force them back into service for any reason, as the emergency Trump used to justify the executive order was extremely vague: the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.
This executive order is officially an amendment to Executive Order 13223, signed by George W. Bush in September 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Trumps executive order claimed to be in furtherance of the objectives of Proclamation 7463
which declared a national emergency by reason of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Stay with me, because this gets confusing. So Trump basically wrote an amendment to Bushs 2001 executive order. All Bushs executive order really said, though, was that an emergency existed and the president had authorization to use a variety of statutes in the federal code. It then listed those statutes, of which there are many; lets just say they mostly involve the executive abilities to send the military around the world and limit troops ability to retire.
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/20/trump-signs-executive-order-to-draft-retired-pilots-back-into-military-service/
Guess Captain Bonespurs wants to get his war on.
Irish_Dem
(47,482 posts)Bagdad was over 50% women and children when we carpet bombed them with depleted uranium. Long lasting devastation.
samnsara
(17,650 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)so he thinks aliens are invading!!
Throck
(2,520 posts)Jokes on Trump.
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Throck
(2,520 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)It may be in their service contract. The Navy use to call it inactive reserves. Good luck enforcing it.
Hangingon
(3,071 posts)Not military, so I dontknow the fine points. I am pretty sure this happened before.g
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)sounds like a prelude to war.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I have no doubt