I hadn't joined active duty; I had joined as a reservist.
The 30th Infantry Brigade, from North Carolina, and the 39th Infantry Brigade, from Arkansas, each with 5,000 soldiers, were ordered to join the active duty force on Oct. 1 and Oct. 12, respectively.
I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them -- active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular -- to try and end the war.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Association of the U.S. Army donated seed money and retired officers, including two former Marine Corps commandants, joined some active-duty service members in rallying around Donnelly.
She joined the Air Force soon after earning a nursing degree and served about eight years on active duty before joining the Reserves in 1995.
A 1998 West Point graduate, Major Remus had left active duty and joined the Army Reserve in 2004.
After four years on active duty, he joined the CIA for about a decade before co-founding the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, where he was deputy director.
He had, after all, dropped out of Yale and, in 1967, joined the Army, volunteering for active duty in Vietnam, where he fought with the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border, and earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
When nearly 1,000 Puerto Rican reservists were called to active duty three weeks ago, joining several thousand other Puerto Rican reservists and National Guard members already serving in the war in Iraq, some groups, including the Puerto Rico Bar Association, urged Gov. Sila M. Calderón to stop authorizing deployments.
Home by July 2003, he was discharged from active duty and joined the reserves.
Mr. Idema grew up in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., joined the Army in 1975, and was on active duty for three years before joining a Reserve Special Forces unit in New York, according to The Fayetteville Observer.
