Inactive Reserve Call-up - A mistake

Imagine my surprise after looking all over for information about the recall of the Inactive Reserve (and finding little), that the front page of the Oregonian has a top headline - Army does about-face on call-up readiness (UTJ permalink). The Army is now saying that the recall was a "mistake," though they are offering no explanation or apology. In fact, they are not even saying that those who followed orders and re-enlisted will have those re-enlistments revoked.

This could certainly go in the category of dirty tricks if they let those re-enlistments stand. The folks who re-enlisted did so under the threat that if they did not they would be involuntarily assigned. There wasn't a choice really - re-up and request and assignment, or wait and get posted. For the Army to now claim "error" and not cancel the enlistments of those who complied is unconscionable.