President Joe Biden on Thursday granted the U.S. military permission to activate upwards of 3,000 reserve troops to augment its response to the war in Ukraine.
Biden authorized the secretary of defense and the secretary of homeland security to activate “any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category.”
The unit groups are “not to exceed 3,000 total members at any one time…