UPDATE: I did something that Eric Ashley did not do. I went and read the final, passed bill online. The relevant passage reads as follows:
A Ready Reserve Corps within the Commissioned Corps is established for service in times of national emergency. Ready Reserve Corps members may be called to active duty may be called to respond to national emergencies and public health crises and to fill critical public health positions left vacant by members of the Regular Corps who have been called to duty elsewhere.
From this pretty straight-forward and sensible provision allowing for calling up public health officials to assist in crises we suddenly have . . . Obama's private army? I still say, WTF?!?
