Marine Corps nears legal limit on involuntary mobilizations

The Corps’ involuntary call-up of as many as 1,800 Individual Ready Reserve Marines this week takes a large swipe at the number of reservists it can legally bring back into the service at one time. However, despite the current personnel crunch brought on by heavy war-time deployments, the Marine Corps will not seek to raise the number of IRR leathernecks it can press back into active duty, the top Marine commander said March 28.

Last year, Congress granted the Corps the ability to involuntarily activate up to 2,500 IRR Marines at any one time. Before this week’s announced involuntary recall of 1,800, only about 100 reservists had been called back, receiving their orders in December.

“We’ve got access to some more. The peak number is 2,500 [reservists],” Commandant Gen. James Conway said. “There’s still some numbers out there that we could access if we chose to.”

If the Corps hits the limit, however, that’s it.

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