Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Signed April 27, 1999·William J. Clinton·64 FR 23007
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Determines that augmenting active-duty armed forces is necessary to support military operations in and around the former Yugoslavia related to the conflict in Kosovo. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation for the Coast Guard when it is not operating under the Department of the Navy, to order to active duty units and individual members of the Selected Reserve, as well as members of the Individual Ready Reserve who are in the mobilization category and designated as essential under rules set by the relevant service secretary. Also authorizes those secretaries to end the active duty service of such units and members when no longer needed. The order states it is meant only to improve internal executive branch management and does not create any legally enforceable rights for outside parties.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby
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Disposition
Amended by: EO 13286, February 28, 2003
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13120 of April 27, 1999
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain
Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to
Active Duty
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10,
United States Code, I hereby determine that it is
necessary to augment the active armed forces of the
United States for the effective conduct of operations
in and around the former Yugoslavia related to the
conflict in Kosovo. Further, under the stated
authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense,
and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the
Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in
the Department of the Navy, under their respective
jurisdictions, to order to active duty 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 and designated as essential under regulations
prescribed by the Secretary concerned, and to terminate
the service of those units and members ordered to
active duty.
This order is intended only to improve the internal
management of the executive branch and is not intended
to create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the
United States, its agencies, its officers, or any
person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 27, 1999.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 27, 1999. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.