White House Says Reservists Will Provide ‘Administrative’ Support

The White House said Friday that the 3,000 reservists President Biden has made available for the Pentagon to deploy to Europe would serve “administrative” functions.

“These are people that are specialists in things like administrative functions, logistics, supply, maybe medical, dental, those kinds of things,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told Fox News. “The kind of enabling functions that you need to support and sustain a large troop presence for a long time.”

President Biden signed the executive order to support Operation Atlantic Resolve, the name for US military operations in Europe that are a response to events in Ukraine. The mission was first established in 2014 after the US-backed ousting of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych led to Russia annexing Crimea and the civil war in the Donbas region.