1,000 Individual Ready Reservist Marines picked to deploy to Iraq

Above: A 27-year-old Marine reservist from Jacksonville, Florida, scans the area during a boat patrol on the Euphrates River

About 1,000 Individual Ready Reservists will soon be issued orders to deploy to Iraq following a recent screening in Kansas City, Mo., according to a top Reserve official.

The new combat roster is about half of the 1,800 IRR members involuntarily activated in March. Those called up were sent letters from Marine Corps Mobilization Command instructing them to report to one of 10 two-day screening sessions held at their Missouri headquarters in April.

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