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Responding to internal and external pressure, Taiwan lengthened its conscription term in 2024 from four months to one year for all Taiwanese men born after 2005 and updated the curriculum for conscripts and reservists to include some live-fire drills.
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Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Included in the 5,000 are the additional troops deployed to join the 2,500 federalized National Guardsmen and reservists who had been serving as part of a border mission established by the Trump administration in 2018.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2025
Trump’s invocation of the power to call up reservists could fail for a different reason.
—Elizabeth Goitein, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
In 2023, Robert Card, a U.S. Army reservist, carried out a deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, that killed 18 people.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025
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Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Included in the 5,000 are the additional troops deployed to join the 2,500 federalized National Guardsmen and reservists who had been serving as part of a border mission established by the Trump administration in 2018.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2025
Trump’s invocation of the power to call up reservists could fail for a different reason.
—Elizabeth Goitein, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
In 2023, Robert Card, a U.S. Army reservist, carried out a deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, that killed 18 people.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Reservist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reservist. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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reservist
noun
re·serv·ist
ri-ˈzər-vəst 
: a member of a military reserve
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