Seventy-three members of the Army’s Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) have failed to carry out their orders to report for wartime duty, and some have stalled for more than a year. In a normal situation, a soldier who fails to report would be declared absent without leave and prosecuted. The Army, however, is treading lightly, according to an Army official, because IRR soldiers historically have not been activated after completing their original active-duty obligation. They were merely carried on personnel rolls until the remaining years of their contracts had run out. The 73 members who haven’t reported are from a group of 6,545 that was selected for a phased call-up in June 2004. The IRR pool consists of some 110,000 civilian-soldiers.