Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Signed October 16, 2014·Barack Obama·79 FR 63287
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Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating under the Navy, to order to active duty units and individual members of the Selected Reserve, as well as certain members of the Individual Ready Reserve designated as essential, to support Operation United Assistance, the humanitarian and consequence-management response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa. It also authorizes these officials to end the active-duty service of those units and members once no longer needed. The order states it creates no enforceable legal right or benefit for any party against the United States or its agencies, officers, or employees.
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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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Executive Order 13680 of October 16, 2014
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 Operation
United Assistance, which is providing support to
civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence
management support related to the Ebola virus disease
outbreak in West Africa. In furtherance of this
operation, under the stated authority, I hereby
authorize the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary
of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard
when it is not operating as a service in 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 not intended to, and does not, create any
right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 16, 2014.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed October 16, 2014. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.