To help us fully equip the units that need it most, in 2005 the Army Reserve will begin implementing the Army Reserve Expeditionary Force (AREF), consisting of modular force packages organized at the battalion level and below. It allows the Army Reserve to provide sustainability, availability and predictability to both the soldier and the combatant commander. AREF leverages our core competencies of civil affairs, medical, military police and transportation, which are not as readily available in the Active Component Army. Each package rotates through various stages of readiness and responsiveness, culminating in a 9- to 12-month call to active duty every five years.
AREF calls for organizing our go-towar units (AA units) into 10 packages for rapid deployment over a five-year period. The units in Year 1 would be “on alert,†ready to be called to active duty and deployment almost immediately. Units in Year 5 would be reconstituting, most likely from a recent deployment.
The Army Reserve is a very different organization from what it was 20 or 30 years ago. Our units have been deployed more frequently in the last 12 years than during the previous 75 years.
The Army Reserve is changing in deep, profound ways. It is more than just superficial adjustments. It is a total overhaul—a depot-level rebuild—of the organization, while it is fully engaged in supporting the global war on terror-ism. I have compared it to rebuilding an aircraft while the plane is in flight. We are changing the Army Reserve culture so soldiers know that mobilization is the expectation, not the exception. We have implemented tougher, more realistic training to make sure our soldiers are warriors first, technicians second.
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The intent of the Army Reserve is to use the energy and urgency of current Army Transformation initiatives and the operational demands of the global war on terrorism to change from an over-structured, technically focused, force-in-reserve to a learning organization that provides trained, ready, “inactive duty†soldiers poised and available for active service, as ready as if they knew the hour and day they would be called.
The Army Reserve also seeks innovative ways to continue contributing to training across the Army. To support combatant commanders, the Army Reserve is pursuing the creation of the Foreign Army-Training Assistance Command (FA-TRAC), which will conduct foreign army training, a mission that is currently conducted by soldiers of the Army Reserve’s 75th Division (Training Support) Advisory Support Team in Tallafar, Iraq.
The mission of FA-TRAC, similar to the mission of the 75th Division today in Iraq, will be to provide foreign armed forces with advice, training and organizational practices in leadership, soldier skills and unit tactics. Army Reserve soldiers assigned to FA-TRAC will deploy to the combatant command to live, train and eat with the hostnation soldiers. The FA-TRAC will be built from the existing structure of a current Army Reserve division (institutional training). FA-TRAC will provide “plug and play†training teams to the combatant commander.
Since mobilization is no longer an unexpected event, we are striving to reduce post-mobilization training to less than a month and focusing it on critical collective unit tasks, theater-specific training, mission rehearsals and validation.
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