The rule requires reservists to be 60 before they are granted burial with a separate grave and gravestone.
Taking on an adversary like Iraq, the simulation found, could require mobilizing reservists at a level not seen since the Persian Gulf war, when 265,000 members of the National Guard and Reserves were called up, more than three times the number who were mobilized as of this week.
Mr. Hall, speaking at a breakfast meeting of the Defense Writers Groupp, gave no estimate of how quickly demobilization might start or of the eventual number of Guard members and reservists required for the stabilization mission in Iraq.
National Guard members and reservists are required to train with their units on occasional weekends and during the summer, which caused problems for Bodnar's lab work.
Since World War II, federal law has required that employers hire back any reservist called to active duty.
Pentagon tells 14,000 military reservists that they may be required to extend their duty.
In at least three instances first reported by HuffPost, Trump's companies have fired, or refused to hire, military reservists over the time constraints required under the terms of their commitments to the armed forces.
Known in the military as combat support and combat service support, such units perform important logistical missions, and the American effort in Iraq has required the mobilization of tens of thousands of reservists for those duties.
But he noted that even as some reservists were sent home, others would probably be mobilized to take their places, as required.
The 6,500 reservists expected to be called up in the event of war have received letters saying they may be required, and their employers have been notified of their potential absence.
