Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Signed July 13, 2023·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·88 FR 45807
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Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is 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 Atlantic Resolve within the United States European Command's area of responsibility. Limits activation to no more than 3,000 total members at any one time, of whom no more than 450 may come from the Individual Ready Reserve. Allows the relevant secretaries to end the active duty service of those called up when no longer needed. States that it creates no enforceable legal rights or benefits for any party against the United States or its officials.
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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 14102 of July 13, 2023
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members
of the Individual Ready Reserve 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
Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States
European Command's area of responsibility. 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, not to exceed 3,000 total
members at any one time, of whom not more than 450 may
be members of the Individual Ready Reserve, as they
deem necessary, 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,
July 13, 2023.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 13, 2023. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.