Involuntary Call-Up Set for Marines

News:
As many as 1,200 Marine reservists are being involuntarily called up for duty in Iraq next year for jobs the service has been unable to find enough volunteers to fill, the Marine Corps said Monday, the largest such mobilization since the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003. Current personnel shortages are so pronounced that officials say the call-up would have been necessary even without the increase in American force levels in Iraq, which are expected to reach 160,000, including 25,000 marines, by June.