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Icpiper,
Is everyone who ever served in the armed forces part of the Force Pool?
And are they really volunteers or draftees, when deemed needed?
Can members of the Force Pool say "No thanks, been there, done that?"
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I can't say this applies to the guys who were Drafted, but it does to the volunteers.
This is why often it's hard to get back in if you ever get out, they can take you if they need you. They would rather train a new guy and add another to the Force pool.
I don't know if you can say no to this. The reason why you never hear about it is they have never ever needed to use it. It's a left over from the Cold War when we still envisioned we might have to fight for our nation's very survival and would need everyone we could lay our hands on. They would never use this unless it was the most serious of cases.
But you do remember some Doctors a few years back who were not happy about being pulled from their practices right? They weren't all Reservists.