Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty

1999-04-29Executive Order 13120
Signed by: William J. Clinton
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Headline: Selected Reserve Members Ordered to Active Duty for Kosovo Operations

What it does: Defense and Transportation officials are authorized to order Selected Reserve and designated Individual Ready Reserve members to active duty for Kosovo operations.

Real World Impact:
  • Calls Selected Reserve and designated Individual Ready Reserve members to active duty.
  • Increases active military personnel for operations in and around the former Yugoslavia.
  • Allows officials to end the active service of those ordered to duty.
Topics: military mobilization, reservist call-up, Kosovo operations, national security

Summary

This order lets Defense and Transportation officials call up Selected Reserve members and certain Individual Ready Reserve members to active duty. The call-up is to augment U.S. forces for operations in and around the former Yugoslavia related to the conflict in Kosovo.

It affects reservists, including some Coast Guard members when under Transportation authority, and gives officials the power to end the active service of those called up. The order also states it is for internal management and does not create new legal rights.

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