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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted March 23, 2010, gave the USPHS the authority to create the Ready Reserve Corps, a new component of the USPHS Commissioned Corps. The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps will be to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the other uniformed services' reserve programs) to assist full-time Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.
Prior to the passage of this law, the USPHS Commissioned Corps did not have a reserve component to call upon in this fashion. The Ready Reserve Corps members will perform duties for assigned periods of time as opposed to full-time Corps members who are on extended active duty. Joining the Ready Reserve Corps is voluntary; however, future members of the Ready Reserve Corps join knowing that they can be called at any time to serve in times of national need.
The Ready Reserve Corps officers will participate in routine training; be available and ready for calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises or to backfill critical positions left vacant during deployment of full-time Corps members; or be available for service assignments in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities.
Originally posted by queenofswords
neo....hold on....we 'ain't seen noth'in yet'! It's coming!!!edit on 23-1-2013 by queenofswords because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Ghost375
You guys really like doubling down on the insanity, don't you?
I told everyone he wasn't actually going to make a move to grab guns with executive orders, and what do you do when that didn't happen? Instead of admitting you're wrong and moving on, you guys come up with even crazier ideas!!
Guess what? They aren't coming for your guns. Get it through your head.
Originally posted by Krazysh0t
reply to post by queenofswords
Why would he have to go through all these hoops when he can just have doctors and psychiatrists diagnosis you unfit to own a gun? Much easier and efficient.
You guys really like doubling down on the insanity, don't you?
I told everyone he wasn't actually going to make a move to grab guns with executive orders, and what do you do when that didn't happen? Instead of admitting you're wrong and moving on, you guys come up with even crazier ideas!!
Guess what? They aren't coming for your guns. Get it through your head.
You cannot have an independent minded people armed to the teeth and force them under the flag of a global dictatorship that is being formed right before our eyes.
Originally posted by Ghost375
You guys really like doubling down on the insanity, don't you?
I told everyone he wasn't actually going to make a move to grab guns with executive orders, and what do you do when that didn't happen? Instead of admitting you're wrong and moving on, you guys come up with even crazier ideas!!
Guess what? They aren't coming for your guns. Get it through your head.
Originally posted by Tuttle
Not being an American, I do not really share this suspicion that one day the government will try and take away my guns.
I personaly am neither for or against gun ownership, but by the very fact it is your right to have them in your country, then I agree wholeheartedly with peoples choice to own them, It does not matter if I agree with your reasons for owning them, or agree with the reasons behind your right to have them, all that matter is, its your right, so thats what you are entitled too.
Having said that, can someone, preferably an American gun owner explain to me the logic in the government stripping you off your right to own guns, because to me, it does not sound like it would ever happen. Simply because the government would loose massive amounts of tax revenue generated from gun/ammo sales, and considering how powerful the NRA and weapons manufacturers actually are, they would also have to be party to this government collusion and at the same time be happy to loose what profits they earn and the political influence that goes with those profits. Would both the NRA and weapons manufacturers/dealers not be warning people by now?, or are they ALL in on it?.
And based on the fact American government is solely ran by corporate greed, why would they want to deny the economic benefit of gun sales?, surely this would make an already struggling economy even worse off?.
I just cannot see it happening, from a logical point of view of course, there may be more to it im sure?