Ruh Roh! First Army, then Navy?
Will there be an age limit to these recalled military retirees? Beyond a certain age. costs will exceed short term benefits.
As I out-processed in 1999, I remember the ‘warning’ given by the personnel ‘kid’....’keep your uniform’. There was some regulation that I’d never heard of, which detailed for a period of something like 12 to 24 months, where they could recall you. I brought this up in the office, and no one had dealt with this before. Somewhere in the basement, I still have a duffle-bag with $700 of uniforms probably sitting there.
My take....maybe you could do this with 40-year old folks...on up to 45 years old. Beyond that? No, physical stuff starts to come up. All of these people would be mid-management types.
As for reasoning? That comment by Putin last year of creating two new Army Corps got people hyped up. This week, the Russian General said the two new units (in the region of 400k men each) would become active by the end of 2024. On paper, it may exist, but I don’t see how you’d reach nearly a million new members....without drafting a lot of Russian women, or just saying billets exist but are never filled. Some speculation that the two units would be placed along the borders of Finland, the Baltic, and Poland.