I found out something very alarming today at my county Dem Assembly.

[PatrickforO]

One of our candidates for a US House seat is a major in the Army Reserve AND HE'S BEEN CALLED UP FOR POSSIBLE ACTION IN NORTH KOREA.

That's pretty scary and I will certainly be calling my US Senators and Representative about this on Monday.

We have to keep the pressure up because like many of you, I suspect Trump is going insane.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I am surprised, but I shouldn't be.

Alarming is the word.

Thank you for the heads-up.

[SunSeeker]

2. HOLY SHIT!

[blake2012]

3. Ill need proof for that wild claim

[MissB]

4. I have a friend in the

Army reserves. That person is currently on their “2 weeks a year” at an army base and their unit is going through a bunch of readiness activities so that if they are called up to Korea it won’t take them months to do so.

My friend was relaying that their commander was chewed out by a general that drove by the other day. I guess the general noted that they should not have hot showers or hot food because they “wouldn’t have those in Korea.”

Yeah, the OP is quite believable. My friend has been told for several months that deploying to S. Korea is a very real possibility.

[Glorfindel]

7. There's an immense difference in being deployed to South Korea, an ally

and "called up for possible service in North Korea." Apples and oranges.

[PatrickforO]

8. Look, all of you - I'm not a vet nor am I in the reserves. Maybe I chose words wrong. So...

to clarify...

What I saw today, along with about 900 other people attending our county Democratic Assembly, is a video from one of the candidates running for a seat in the US House.

What he said in the video is that he would love to be here in person, but he has been called up. Korea was mentioned in the video.

I was merely putting two and two together so don't split hairs on me please. I'm sorry if I went overboard.

Nonetheless - FACT - the guy is a major in my state's Army Reserve and he has been called up.

[highplainsdem]

9. Here's the link for news for the Army Reserve:

http://www.usar.army.mil/News/

[kst]

11. Korea, not North Korea!

So you heard "Korea" and assumed "North Korea".

Yeah, you went overboard. Big time.

We already have over 20,000 troops in South Korea. Being called up to serve in South Korea wouldn't be particularly odd.

[Stonepounder]

13. Seems to me that having a Reserve unit called to active duty would be VERY odd.

[James48]

14. People are called up all the time!

It’s not unusual at all. We’ve been using reserve and Guard forces around the globe for the last 20+ years. Where have you been?

Signed- a retired U.S.Army National Guard Captain with multiple places I’ve been.

[progressoid]

12. You can edit your original post to clarify.

[Stryst]

17. My brother is a heavy weapons technician in the Army

His unit has been doing jungle training, but they've also been rotating through Myanmar.

[MrScorpio]

18. Well, if this guy will be deployed to Korea for an exercise...

He’s going to be bivouacked in a tent, out in a field someplace. They’re trying to simulate combat conditions as best they can.

Now whether or not they were referring to the real deal, rather than planned joint exercises like Team Spirit or Ulchi Focus Lens, I don’t know.

But that’s been going on for decades, even when I was stationed there more than thirty years ago.

[MissB]

19. Yes

She would be in a tent. She’s not combat- more health related.

[MrScorpio]

20. Yep, that would be a field hospital for frontline triage care

They’d want it as real as possible, even in a joint exercise.

[Glorfindel]

5. His orders say he's been called up for possible action in NORTH KOREA?

Trump may be stupid enough to tip his hand like that, but the people in the military who issue the actual orders wouldn't be. I think maybe there's a failure to communicate somewhere.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

6. Going? I thought it was confirmed a while back... nt

[njhoneybadger]

10. OMG that's bad, thanks for the info.

[weissmam]

15. There are large military exercises evey year at this time in SOUTH KOREA

take a chill pill

[RainCaster]

16. That's the distraction for Stormy

Rachel got it wrong - it won't be a pardon, but a war.

[Sam McGee]

21. US-South Korea exercises

I suspect he's been activated to serve in the upcoming US-South Korea joint exercises.

WASHINGTON — The United States and South Korea will resume their annual joint military exercises on April 1, the Pentagon announced Monday, restarting drills that have aroused the ire of North Korea and were suspended during the Olympics and Paralympics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/us/politics/us-south-korea-joint-military-exercises.html

[aeromanKC]

22. My Reserve Unit got re-assigned our 2 week annual training in 1990 to go to Guam instead of Virginia

from March 1990 (for Virginia) to go to Guam in August of 1990, which ended up being the same month Desert Shield happened.

Coincidence?? I think NOT!!

[Honeycombe8]

23. Here we go. As we suspected. nt