Another 1800 Marine reservists to be called up under 2nd involuntary mobilization for 2008 tours

Above: Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion take a brief rest inside a building at a combat outpost built by their unit in the Amariyah-Ferris region of Iraq this month.

The Corps plans to involuntarily activate as many as 1,800 more Individual Ready Reserve leathernecks this summer, a top manpower officer said Thursday.

The call-up, following closely on the heels of a similarly sized one in March, is based on manpower forecasts for the coming 12 to 18 months, said Col. Guy Stratton, head of planning and policy with Manpower and Reserve Affairs in Quantico, Va.

Those mustered during the summer call-up will be issued orders for active-duty screening, a process that will likely reduce the pool eligible for deployment. The Corps estimates, for example, that about 1,200 of the 1,800 activated in the March call-up will be issued orders for combat deployment.

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