By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic…
Has there been no mention of why this happened? 3,000 doesn’t sound like that many compared to what I assume we already have in our active military. Like why is it necessary to call up reservists rather than shuffling around some units from other places?
Could be a specialty that they need to do some training over there, just speculating though.