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OMMEMORATIVE www.armyreserve.mil 100thC “I couldn’t imagine not being in the Army Reserve.”

— Sergeant First Class Annie Adams, an eleven-year Army Reserve Warrior-Citizen who participated in the Army Reserve’s centennial re-enlistment ceremony. She is assigned to the 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command in Iraq.

General David Petraeus, commanding general of Multi-National Force — Iraq, administers the oath of enlistment to 100 Reserve Soldiers at a mass re-enlistment ceremony at Al Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Iraq, January 18, 2008. AR COMMAND TEAM WARRIOR-CITIZEN Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz Spring 2008 vol.53 No.2 www.armyreserve.mil Chief, Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer 5 James E. Thompson Letter from the President...... 4 Command Chief Warrant Officer of the Army Reserve Command Sgt. Maj. Leon Caffie CAR Intro ...... 5 Command Sergeant Major of the Army Reserve WARRIOR-CITIZEN MAGAZINE STAFF 6 Special Feature: Col. Dorothy A. Perkins Director, Army Reserve Communications the army reserve at 100 years Col. Burt Masters Deputy Director for Public Affairs Lt. Col. Willie Harris Chief, Command Information Branch 22 Departments Paul R. Adams Editor in Chief, Warrior-Citizen News You Can Use ...... 22 The Madison Design Group Design Services Training Briefs...... 26 Submissions • Warrior-Citizen invites articles, story ideas, photographs and other material of interest People and Family...... 31 to members of the U.S. Army Reserve. Manuscripts and other correspondence for the editor should be addressed to Commander, U.S. Army Reserve 36 My army reserve life Command, Attn: Public Affairs (Warrior-Citizen), 1401 Deshler Street, SW, Fort McPherson, GA 30330-2000, Re-enlistment ...... 44 telephone 404-464-8500 or dsn 367-8500. All email submissions should go to [email protected]. mil. All articles must be submitted electronically Chaplains...... 52 or on disk or CD. Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs will not be returned. Query by letter. Warriors in Transition ...... 55 Change of Address • Do not write the magazine. TPU Soldiers should notify their Unit Administrator or Unit Clerk. Members of the IRR and IMA should contact 60 Transformation their Personnel Management Team at HRC-STL, 1 Reserve Way, St. Louis, MO 63132-5200. AGRs should Maps and Stats ...... 60 contact their PMO/PMNCO. Paid subscribers should forward their address change to the Superintendent of Documents, Attn: Mail List Branch SSOM, U.S. Units Return and Deploy...... 64 Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Special military distribution recipients may write the Training ...... 68 editor directly. Subscriptions • Warrior-Citizen is distributed free of charge to members of the United States Army Reserve. 70 Army reserve communities Circulation is approximately 320,000. Paid subscriptions are available for $14.00 per year domestic, New Leadership at AAFES...... 72 $19.60 foreign. Single copy price is $5.50 domestic, $7.70 foreign. Mail a personal check or money order payable to the Superintendent of Documents to: Family Readiness Award ...... 78 New Orders, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954, or fax your order Serving Others...... 88 to 202-512-2233. Visa and MasterCard are accepted.

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ON THE COVER Upper Right Since 1954. Army Reserve, 100 years of proud service Over 90 Soldier-Heroes, to include 33 Warrior-Citizen is an authorized Department of the to the nation . Army Reserve Soldier-Heroes, march Army publication, published quarterly by the Chief, U.S. onto the field at the Alamo Dome in San Army Reserve, ATTN: DAAR-ZXP, 2400 Army Pentagon, ON THE Back COVER Antonio during pre-game festivities of Washington, DC 20310-2400 in accordance with Section the 2008 All-American Bowl on Saturday, How to earn $2,000 ..The Army Reserve 10210, Title 10, USC. The Secretary of Defense has deter- January 6 . (Photo: Maj. Hillary Luton) Recruiting Assistance Program (AR-RAP) mined that the publication of this periodical is necessary in makes every Soldier a potential recruiter .. the transaction of public business as required by law. Use Story page 5 ..(Photo Courtesy: DOCUPAK) of funds for printing this publication was approved by the Secretary of the Army on September 2, 1986, IAW provisions of AR 25–30. Opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of the Army or the Chief, Army Reserve, nor should they be construed as official policy or directive in nature. Local reproduction of all mate- rials is approved, except for copyrighted articles or photos.

H Warrior-Citizen, 100th Anniversary Commemorative Edition At the end of our magazine, along with a story featuring the Army Reserve Warrior and Family Assistance Center, is NEW LOOK: WARRIOR-CITIZEN MAGAZINE a pull-out magnet with the Center’s logo, Web site and telephone number on it for you to keep for future reference. Editor’s Note Then we present departments featuring blog sites, News You Can Use, Training Briefs, Army Reserve Families, As always Warrior-Citizen Magazine will continue to In this special issue of Warrior-Citizen Magazine and My Army Reserve Life featuring aviators, chaplains rely on submissions from Army Reserve Soldiers, Family we focus on the 100th Anniversary of the Army Reserve. and logisticians. Next is our section on Army Reserve members and Department of the Army Civilians who make All across the country communities will be focused of the Transformation with maps, statistics on deployments and up our readership. You are in the areas where operations service and sacrifice of our Army Reserve Soldiers and construction projects, command organizations, activations, and events occur. Your excellent stories and photos are their Families in various events across the country such as inactivations and conversions and feature stories on these anticipated and appreciated. Keep them coming. Memorial Day, Veterans Day and other special occasions. same topics. We hope you will find this issue commemorating the We begin our coverage with recognition of a century of Rounding out our coverage for this Anniversary issue 100th Anniversary of the Army Reserve to be both interest- service by America’s Warrior-Citizens from President Bush is the Army Reserve Communities department featuring ing and informative. and our senior Army Reserve leadership. Following this is a stories on the new commander of AAFES, an Army Reserve condensed version of the history of the Army Reserve from paul Adams Soldier, the 108th Training Command receiving the 2007 Dr. Lee Harford, Army Reserve historian, members of his editor-in-Chief DoD Family Readiness Award, Operation Toy Drop and an staff and Col. Randy Pullen, (USAR Ret.). Following that we ESGR story of a business supporting one of its employees provide lists of all the Chiefs of the Army Reserve, Command who has been on multiple deployments. Chief Warrant Officers and Command Sergeants Major.

Spring 2008 H H Warrior-Citizen, 100th Anniversary Commemorative Edition The Army Reserve’s 100th anniversary acknowledges our nation’s enduring need force, and it gives for such a us an opportunity to recognize the contributions of hundreds of thousands of men and women who sustained the organization for a century . Further, this anniversary recognizes that the force has changed over reserve 100 years from a small force of about 160 medical professionals into a much more capable force all types of combat-arms, that provided combat-support and combat-service-support is today: capabilities to what it a CS/CSS-focused operational, expeditionary, and domestic force that is an essential piece of the Army . As we mark our 100th anniversary, our transformation to an operational force has resulted continues ..It in the most dramatic changes to Army Reserve structure, training and readiness since World War II . Today’s Army Reserve is no longer a strategic reserve; instead, it is an operational and an integral force part of the world’s greatest Army ..Today’s units are prepared and available to deploy with a full complement of trained Soldiers and equipment Today’s when the Nation calls .. Army Reserve Soldier is a member of the best trained, best led, and fighting best equipped force our Nation has ever fielded . What hasn’t changed in 100 years is the commitment, selfless service, and personal of our men and women courage who voluntarily put their lives on hold — and on the line — to defend our country and our freedoms . As others have for one hundred years, today’s Army Reserve Soldiers draw their from the love and strength support of their families, their friends and their employers ..For a century letters, care packages and of yellow ribbons, we thank them . Today’s Army Reserve Soldiers represent the values upon which our country was founded They are citizens who .. are willing to lay down their plows and pick up their rifles when called upon ..They’re proud of their service ..They’re proud to say they’re part of the Army Reserve . They are ready for the next one hundred years .

Sincerely,

Lieutenant General Jack C ..Stultz Command Sergeant Leon Caffie Chief, U .S .. Army Reserve Command Sergeant Major, U S. ..Army Reserve

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Forward

By Lee S. Harford, Jr., Ph.D. Army Reserve Historian

The antecedents and heritage of the current United States Army Reserve are found in the tradition of the “federal” or “national” American Citizen-Soldier, dating back at least as far as the French and Indian War (1756–1763). The U.S. Constitution of 1789 and Militia Act of 1792 officially reaffirmed the continued reliance of the new nation on the Citizen- Soldier for defense. Besides the genuine concern of political usurpation by a professional military force, the founding fathers realized that an Army primarily drawn from the general citizenry during times of national emergency also averted the possibility for unpopular wars. During such times, Citizen-Soldiers become Warrior-Citizens!

With the birth of the United States, for the first time in history a major state existed with a republican form of government, where sovereignty rested with the people, not a monarch or dictator. Americans created a system of government to uphold the freedom of opportunity for all citizens and to guarantee their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. These rights came at a price. Every citizen held the responsibility to defend and preserve their rights by serving in the armed forces for the defense of the republic. Thus, the American Citizen- Soldier became the backbone of the armed forces from the very birth of the nation. The tradition has continued to the present day, and the federal Citizen-Soldier and the Army Reserve played fundamental roles in the American military establishment as it evolved over the centuries.

Warrior-Citizens of America represents the second edition of a brief history of the United States Army Reserve. It provides a summary of the significant events and developments that have shaped the Army Reserve and a historical perspective in support of the reserve component’s mission — ensuring the wartime readiness of those forces assigned, serving as a guide for current and future operations. Initially, the federal Citizen-Soldier establishment served as a “strategic” force in reserve until the end of the Cold War. With the emergence of the Post-Cold War World and the Global War on Terrorism the role changed to an “operational” force in partnership with a nearly-continuously deployed active Army.

I am certain that all members of the Army Reserve and any student of military history will find this issue an interesting, useful addition to their professional libraries.

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Wanted: Civilian Expertise for the Army The U .S ..Army Reserve has been through a great deal of history since Congress established the Army’s first federal reserve force on April 23, 1908 . World War I ..The Great Depression .. World War II ..The Cold War ..The Korean War ..The Vietnam War ..The Persian Gulf War ..The War on Terrorism ..And count- less other crises, emergencies, disasters, operations and expeditions . Photo: U.S. Army An Army field hospital in World War I. The Army Reserve’s contribution to Army medicine in World War I was enormous. That busy century of service to There were 9,223 Reserve medical officers by June 1917. America all began after President sions ..This number grew to about 360 by more slowly than its predecessor; by 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, one of this nation’s 1909 and to 1,900 by 1916 ..The concept there were only eight enlisted men in it . great Citizen-Soldiers himself, signed of bringing civilian professionals into the Senate Bill 1424, creating the Medical Army in a disciplined and quickly-acces- Reserve Corps ..The Reserve medical First Mobilization and sible manner would soon expand beyond officers in the corps could be ordered the medical profession and beyond just First World War to active duty by the Secretary of War officers . during time of emergency . Three years later, some 3,000 Army In 1912, the Regular Army Reserve Reserve Soldiers would be called up to In June 1908, the first 160 medical was created, a federal reserve outside of serve beside their Regular Army and professionals received Reserve commis- the Medical Reserve Corps ..It grew much National Guard comrades along the south-

National Guard Heritage Painting On March 9, 1916, Mexican rebels led by “Pancho” Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico. All available troops were rushed to the U.S.-Mexican border, but there were not enough regulars to patrol the vast area. Thus, 3,000 Army Reserve Soldiers were activated. This was the first mobilization of the Army Reserve.

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Photo: U.S. Forest Service Army officers conduct a formation at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp during the 1930s. During the Great Depression, more than 30,000 Organized Reserve Corps officers managed some 2,700 CCC camps. ern border of the United States ..This of the Great War served in every divi- and enlisted Soldiers meant that its 33 first mobilization of the Army Reserve sion of the American Expeditionary divisions were nothing more than cadre was due to tension between the United Force in France, whether those divisions units during the 1920s and 1930s (The States and Mexico caused by the actions were Regular Army, National Guard or 27 Organized Reserve infantry divisions of the Mexican revolutionary, Francisco National Army . were brought up to strength during the mobilization for World War II ..All 27 “Pancho” Villa, and the subsequent puni- Among their ranks was President were deployed overseas and all but one saw tive expedition after him led by Brig .. Roosevelt’s son, Col ..Theodore Roosevelt, combat in Europe or in the Pacific ..Two Gen ..John J ..Pershing ..A second Mexican- Jr ., who served in the 1st Infantry Organized Reserve divisions, the 82nd and American War was averted but this Division; Maj ..Charles Whittlesey, who 101st Infantry Divisions, were converted mobilization provided invaluable experi- led the 77th Infantry Division’s “Lost into the Army’s first airborne divisions .. ence for America’s Army in the greater Battalion” during its heroic battle in Both are now in the Active Army today .. war soon to come . the Meuse-Argonne, and Capt ..Eddie The six Organized Reserve cavalry divi As World War I raged on it Europe, Rickenbacker, “America’s Ace of Aces .” - major changes were taking place in the All three would receive the Medal of sions were disbanded .) . Army’s structure ..The National Defense Honor, Whittlesey and Rickenbacker for There were few incentives for service, Act of 1916 established the Officers’ World War I heroism, Roosevelt for his active or reserve, other than dedication to Reserve Corps (into which the Medical courage in World War II ..Their example duty and patriotism during the inter-war Reserve Corps would be merged in 1917), and those of all the Citizen-Soldier years ..In the Organized Reserve (as the the Enlisted Reserve Corps and the Doughboys set the standard that Army Army Reserve was called at this time), Reserve Officers Training Corps ..When Reserve Soldiers have followed ever since . which was primarily an organization of the United States entered World War I Reserve officers because few enlisted men in April 1917, these organizations — as Between the Wars served, there was no pay for unit drill and well as the entire Army — would expand no retirement plan ..With the national dramatically ..For example, by June 1917, The era between the world wars economy in tatters during the 1930s, there would be 9,223 Army Reserve was a difficult one for the Army ..War training became even rarer ..No year in doctors, dentists and veterinarians, a huge Department plans in the early 1920s called that decade saw more than 30 percent of increase from the original 160 only nine for 33 Reserve divisions (27 infantry and Reserve officers undergo annual training; years earlier . six cavalry), along with 11 Regular Army in 1934, only 14 percent did so . and 22 National Guard divisions ..This More than 170,000 Army Reserve Despite these and other hardships, robust force was not realized ..For the Soldiers served on active duty during the the Army Reserve continued to answer Organized Reserve, lack of both funding First World War ..The Reserve Doughboys the call to serve in emergencies, such

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a year, there were 57,000 on active duty .. About 90 percent of the Army’s company grade officers in June 1941 were recently- mobilized Army Reserve officers . The Reserve presence in World War II was considerable ..In a typical Regular Army combat division during the peak war years, Reserve Soldiers occupied most of the mid-grade officer positions . For example, a 1944 War Department study in one Regular Army infantry division found that 62 .5 percent of the battalion commanders, 84 .5 percent of the company commanders and 30 .3 percent of the platoon leaders were Reserve Soldiers . Another survey gives an indication of how dear the cost of defeating Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was ..Between Photo: U.S. Army Sept ..1, 1943, and May 31, 1944, 52 .4 Troops of the 89th Infantry Division (Organized Reserve) huddle down inside their landing craft as they cross the Rhine River under percent of the Army officers killed in enemy fire in March 1945. All 27 of the pre-war Organized Reserve infantry divisions were mobilized during World War II and all but one fought in combat. action and 27 .7 percent of those missing in action came from the Organized Reserve . as the national emergency of the Great World War II By the end of the war, more than Depression ..Between 1933 and 1939, more 200,000 Reserve Soldiers were on active than 30,000 Organized Reserve Corps offi- With the outbreak of war in Europe in duty, serving on every front ..Roughly a cers were involved in running some 2,700 1939 and especially after the fall of France quarter of all Army officers serving during Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps .. in June 1940, the United States began the war were Army Reserve officers . The CCC was one of President Franklin rearming in earnest ..The nation began Most of them were in the grades of first D ..Roosevelt’s key New Deal programs calling on its long-neglected Reserve as a lieutenant through lieutenant colonel .. that provided jobs to unemployed young key element in rebuilding its armed forces .. They included Lt ..Col ..James Earl Rudder men across the country . There were some 2,700 Reserve officers who led Rudder’s Rangers up the Pointe serving on active duty in mid-1940; within du Hoc cliffs on D-Day; Lt ..Col ..Strom Thurmond who crash-landed in a glider with the 82nd Airborne Division on D- Day; Lt ..Col ..Henry Cabot Lodge who resigned from the U .S ..Senate to serve in North Africa, Normandy and Italy; and Capt ..Ronald Reagan who used his civil-

Harry S Truman Library

Army Reserve Historical Painting Future President Harry S Truman as an Organized Reserve An Army Reserve Corps doctor and Red Cross nurse, along with other medical Soldiers, asses the condition of the wounded Corps major. A combat veteran of World War I, Truman was and prioritize patient treatment. The wounded at the hospital helped stop the German offensive north of the town of Suippes in rebuffed in his desire to come on active duty during World War northwestern France from July 15 – 18, 1918. Both the U.S. Army’s 42nd and 77th Divisions fought in this area alongside other II. As fate would have it, instead he became the Commander American units and the French Army. in Chief in 1945.

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defense programs and saved the government billions of dollars from fraud and mismanagement ..His new national prominence helped gain him a spot as President Roosevelt’s running mate in 1944 ..When Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, Vice President (and Organized Reserve Col .) Truman became the President of the United States and led the nation to final victory in World War II . War in Korea Five years after the end of World War II, Army Reserve men and women (Women were authorized to join the Organized Reserve in 1948 .) were called to duty again, this time for war in Korea ..At the time of the North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950, the Organized Reserve Corps consisted of 217,435 officers and 291,182 enlisted Photo: U.S. Army members ..Of those, 68,785 officers and Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. sits on his jeep, “Rough Rider,” during World War II. 117,756 enlisted personnel were participating in paid drills . ian-acquired skills as a movie star to make duty as a colonel in 1941 and was soon The Army of 1950 was dangerously Army Air Force training films . promoted to brigadier general ..After hollow at home and abroad ..The nearest combat in North Africa and Sicily with A number progressed to general officer ground troops available for deployment the 1st Infantry Division, Roosevelt led rank ..In April 1942, Lt ..Col ..James H .. to Korea were from General of the Army the 4th Infantry Division ashore on Utah Doolittle led 16 Army B-25 bombers off Douglas MacArthur’s occupation force in Beach, the first general officer to come the aircraft carrier Hornet on the first Japan ..His four divisions there were under ashore on a Normandy beach on D-Day .. aerial attack against Japan ..For leading strength, under trained and not ready For his leadership and courage on June what was immortalized as “the Doolittle physically or mentally for combat with the 6, 1944, he received the Medal of Honor .. Raid,” he received the Medal of Honor tough North Korean People’s Army ..The He died of a heart attack on July 12, 1944, and a promotion from lieutenant colonel first Army ground force that met them, never learning that he had been selected to brigadier general ..He would go on to the ill-fated Task Force Smith, was swiftly for promotion to major general and command the Eighth Air Force and end defeated on July 5, 1950 ..More disastrous command of the 90th Infantry Division . the war as a lieutenant general . defeats followed for the Americans and One Reserve officer reached the highest Maj ..Gen ..William J ..Donovan had South Koreans until only the southeast position possible: Commander in Chief .. received the Medal of Honor, the portion of the Korean peninsula remained Harry S Truman, who commanded a Distinguished Service Cross and three in United States and South Korean hands . Field Artillery battery in combat during Purple Hearts while leading a battalion To rebuild the Army, both in Korea World War I, joined the Organized of the 165th Infantry Regiment (the old and worldwide (There was real fear at the Reserve in 1920 and rose to the rank of “Fighting 69th” regiment from the Civil time that war in Korea was only the first colonel ..He was elected U .S ..Senator from War), 42nd Infantry Division, in World battle of a global Communist attack .), the Missouri in 1934 ..When the war began, War I ..Recalled to active duty as a colonel nation called on its reserve components, Truman requested to be called to active in 1942, Donovan headed the nation’s the Organized Reserves and the National duty but was turned down by Army Chief espionage and sabotage agency, the Office Guard . of Staff Gen ..George C ..Marshall, who of Strategic Services, known as the OSS, said Truman was more valuable to the Within the first few weeks of the war, the World War II predecessor of the country in the Senate than he would be in President Truman called up 25,000 indi- Central Intelligence Agency . the Army . vidual Organized Reserve Soldiers ..More Another hero from the First World than 10,000 of these were junior officers Marshall, as usual, was correct ..As War who also fought in the Second was and noncommissioned officers, whose head of a special sub-committee, Truman Theodore Roosevelt, Jr ., who returned to World War II combat experience was investigated wastefulness in the nation’s

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Korean War and became a machine gun squad leader in Company H, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division ..On April 24, 1951, Miyamura was ordered to hold a hill near Taejon-ni against Chinese Communist troops for as long as possible ..Throughout the night of April 24–25, he and his 15 men did just that .. Several enemy assaults were repelled, with Miyamura directed the defense and frequently manning one of the machine guns or engaging the Chinese in hand-to- hand combat ..With ammunition almost gone, Miyamura covered the withdrawal of his surviving men before being seriously wounded and captured ..Held captive for more than two years, news of the Medal of Honor he had been awarded was withheld for fear of retaliation by his captors ..On Oct ..27, 1953, two months after his release from captivity, now Staff Sgt ..Miyamura

Army Reserve Historical Painting was presented his “secret” Medal of Honor Kauon-Ni, Korea, December 1952. Battery C of the 780th Field Artillery Battalion fires an 8-inch howitzer, helping destroy enemy artil- by President Dwight D ..Eisenhower . lery and automatic weapons positions at Kajon-Ni, Korea near the 38th parallel. The 780th, an Army Reserve battalion, from Roanoke, Va., served in Korea from April 1951 to December 1954. During the Korean War, more than 240,000 Army Reserve Soldiers were called The Korean War was a catalyst for to active duty with more than 70 units serving in Korea. change ..The improvised, creeping mobilization, even though geared to a limited desperately needed ..By the end of the first 40 separate companies went to Korea .. war, proved inadequate to support the year of the war, another 135,000 individual Seven Reserve Soldiers — men like rapid production of combat-ready units .. Reserve Soldiers would be called up . Capt ..Raymond Harvey and Cpl ..Hiroshi The decision not to use all Organized Miyamura — received the Medal of Honor Because of the need for experienced Reserve Corps units led to the unplanned, for their combat heroism . leaders, as well as the decision not to strip often poor use of the Volunteer and men from organized units as replace- Harvey, a decorated combat veteran of Inactive Reserves ..This practice led ments or fillers for other units, it was the World War II, was recalled to active duty Congress to mandate that, in the future, Inactive Reserves, those who had neither from the Organized Reserves in 1948 ..He reserve component units would be called been drilling nor been given drill pay, who landed at Inchon in September 1950 with up in national emergencies before any were sent to Korea first ..There was a great the 7th Infantry Division ..Two months levies on the reserve manpower pools . deal of bitterness among these Soldiers later, he took command of Company C, These and other lessons of the Korean about the inequity of their going back to 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment ..On War culminated in the Armed Forces war before their fellow Reserve Soldiers March 9, 1951, Harvey led his company Reserve Act of 1952 ..The law redefined who had been actively drilling, not to up Hill 1232, near Taemi-Dong ..After per- the reserve components, stating that each mention the millions available for military sonally eliminating three enemy machine service would have a Ready Reserve, a service who were still going about their gun positions, he was seriously wounded .. Standby Reserve and a Retired Reserve .. normal lives . Despite his wound, he continued to The Organized Reserve Corps was Despite their complaints, they did go direct his company in capturing the hill .. renamed the Army Reserve ..The Ready Later while being prepped for surgery, he to Korea ..Their experience was invalu- Reserve was to have a ceiling of 1 .5 million was presented with a Silver Star, earned able in restoring the fighting prowess members who could be called to active for heroism five months early ..On July of the American Army ..Army Reserve duty during wartime or any national 5, 1951, Harvey received the Medal of Soldiers served in all units of the Army emergency declared by Congress or the Honor for his actions on Hill 1232 from during the Korean War, from the Pusan president ..Members of the Standby and President Truman . Perimeter battles through the cessation Ready Reserves could be tapped for active of hostilities in 1953 ..More than 240,000 While Harvey received the Medal duty in cases of congressional declaration .. Reserve Soldiers were eventually called of Honor for taking a hill, Miyamura Other provisions of the act further clari- to active duty for service in Korea and received his for trying to hold one ..He fied the status of the Reserve and these for rebuilding the Army at home and in came into the active Army from the provisions played an important role in Europe ..Fourteen Reserve battalions and Enlisted Reserve Corps early in the future conflicts .

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From the Cold War to the same use of draftees instead of Reserve or than 63,000 Soldiers from 647 units were National Guard troops had resulted in the activated to accomplish both continental Gulf War and Beyond commonly held belief that service in the U .S ..and overseas missions ..Thousands reserve components was a dodge used to of Individual Ready Reserve Soldiers, In the 1960s, the Army Reserve stood avoid going to Vietnam ..Re-building the Individual Mobilization Augmentees and ready to answer the Nation’s call during morale of its members would be another 1,000 retirees volunteered or were ordered the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis major challenge in the immediate post- to active duty as well ..In all, almost 84,000 and the Vietnam War ..Only Vietnam Vietnam years . Army Reserve Soldierss answered their resulted in an armed conflict and because country’s call . of decisions made by the administration That challenge was met ..The Army of President Lyndon B ..Johnson, only a — both the Active Army and the two The Army Reserve paid a price for the small Reserve mobilization was autho- reserve components — rebuilt and trans- liberation of Kuwait and the defeat of rized, resulting in a call-up in 1968 of 42 formed itself after Vietnam ..For the Iraq ..An Iraqi Scud missile killed 28 Army Army Reserve units with fewer than 5,000 Army Reserve, this meant more use of Reserve men and women on February 25, Soldiers ..Of these, 35 units and 3,500 its Soldiers, units and their capabilities .. 1991, and wounded almost 100 others .. Soldiers deployed to Vietnam . Greater use turned into greater reliance as Thirteen of those killed in action and the Army Reserve demonstrated what it 43 of the wounded were from the 14th As U .S ..involvement in Vietnam came could do . Quartermaster Detachment, giving this to an end in the early 1970s, the draft water purification unit from Greensburg, was eliminated and the era of the All- Following the 1983 Grenada invasion, Pa ., an 80 percent casualty rate ..No other Volunteer Force began ..In 1973, the Army Reserve civil affairs Soldiers helped American or coalition unit in the war suf- Department of Defense announced a new rebuild Grenada’s infrastructure ..In 1989, fered such a high casualty rate . concept of national defense, the Total Army Reserve Soldiers participated in Force Policy ..This policy called for smaller Operation Just Cause, the United States’ When the new United States Army active forces backed up by reinvigorated, intervention in Panama, with military Reserve Command (USARC) became well-trained, well-equipped reserve forces .. police and civil affairs support ... operational on October 1, 1992, 95 percent The Army Reserve was much in need The biggest deployment of Army Reserve of all Army Reserve units came under of such reenergizing ..Due to its non-use Soldiers overseas since the Korean War its command (except special operations during the Vietnam War, it had been took place in 1990–1991 with Operations units, and units located in Alaska, the thoroughly neglected ..Additionally, this Desert Shield and Desert Storm ..More Pacific, and Europe) ..For the first time in the Army Reserve’s history, command and control of these units resided with the Army Reserve itself . In 1993, Army Reserve Soldiers participated in Operation Restore Hope, the Somalia relief expedition ..They included more than 100 Army Reserve volunteers who made up the 711th Adjutant General Company (Provisional) (Postal) ..Other Army Reserve civil affairs and public affairs Soldiers also served in Somalia until U .S ..Forces departed there in March 1994 . Army Reserve Soldiers took part in Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti from 1995–1996 ..Among those who deployed was an 18-person team of judges and lawyers led by an Army Reserve major general who was also a New Jersey Superior Court judge ..In Haiti, this team worked to review the Haitian judicial system, train Haitian judges and modern- ize the country’s 19th Century legal code .. Army Reserve Historical Painting Since 1995, thousands of Army Reserve Quan Loi, Vietnam, January 1969. The 391th Transportation Company returns fire when one of their trucks is disabled during a Viet Cong ambush. This Army Reserve unit from Augusta, Ga., was transporting ammunition and rations to the First Infantry Division Soldiers have conducted peacekeeping near the Cambodian border. Between Septerm 1968 and July 1969, the 319th was ambushed seven times while hauling 92 tons of operations in Bosnia and Kosovo, as supplies more than 1.1 million miles. They suffered one casualty and received a meritorious unit citation and numerous individual well supporting those operations from awards. Forty-two Army Reserve units were mobilized in 1968 with 35 going to Vietnam

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century from its outset, with a number of Reserve Soldiers among the killed at the Pentagon and the World Trade Center . “As the flames continued to be fought at the Pentagon and in New York, Army Reserve men and women went into action all across America,” said Lt ., Gen ..Thomas J ..Plewes, Chief of the Army Reserve from 1998 to 2002 (Lt ..Gen ..Plewes became the first three-star Chief of the Army Reserve on June 13, 2001 ..On September 11, 2001, he and his personal staff were inside the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building ). . “Arriving at their places of duty,” Photo: U.S. Army Plewes said, “they immediately started U.S. military personnel examine the ruins of a warehouse being used as barracks that was hit by an Iraqi Scud missile on Feb. 25, 1991 during Operation Desert Storm. Twenty-eight Army Reserve Soldiers died their missions: force protection and in this attack. Thirteen of those killed, as well as 43 of the wounded, were from the 14th Quartermaster security at installations and facilities, Detachment, a water purification unit. The 14th had an 80 percent casualty rate, the highest of any American intelligence and investigation support, of coalition unit of the Gulf War. training and training validation, headquarters augmentation and historical Hungary, Germany, and Italy ..The crashed them into the World Trade documentation, logistics and transporta- Kosovo conflict resulted in a stateside Center in New York City, the Pentagon tion operations ..Whatever the National mission in 1999 at the Fort Dix Army in Washington, DC, and a field in Command Authority needed the Army Reserve Installation in New Jersey ..There, Pennsylvania ..Thousands of Americans Reserve to do, we did it .” Army Reserve Soldiers led and were part were killed . of the Operation Provide Refuge Joint Highlighting the responsiveness of Army Reserve men and women were on the Army Reserve to this national emer- Task Force, giving relief and assistance to the front lines of this first war of the 21st more than 4,000 ethnic Albanian refugees gency was the example of the 311th from Kosovo . As the 20th Century ended, Army Reserve civil affairs Soldiers from the Hawaii-based 9th Regional Support Command provided support for the United Nations multinational force in East Timor in late 1999 ..Additionally, Soldiers of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) Support Unit (LSU), a brand new unit just activated on October 16, 1999, also deployed to East Timor ..They were tasked by U .S ..Pacific Command to coordinate the replacement of military heavy-lift aircraft with civilian contract aircraft to transport refugees and distribute food, water and fuel ..The LSU executed a $10 million contract with a civilian helicopter firm, freeing up U .S ..Marine Corps helicopters and U .S ..Navy ships for other missions .

Army Reserve Historical Painting The First War of the 21st The 316th Quartermaster Company distributes water at an XVIII Airborne Corps site in Central Saudi Arabia. The 316th, an Army Reserve unit from San Diego, Calif., distributed 8.4 million gallons of water during the Persian Gulf War and in support of Kurdish Century relief efforts in northern Iraq. Army Reserve Soldiers contributed significantly to the Total Army’s success by providing the bulk of On September 11, 2001, terrorists water purification and distribution, civil affairs support, enemy prisoner-of-war handling, postal work, petroleum handling, military hijacked four commercial airliners and history and pyshchological operations. Other participating Army Reserve units included chemical decontamination, transportation, military police, maintenance and engineer units.

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sifting through Mobilization Augmentees (IMAs) and tons of debris for from the Individual Ready Reserve ..There human remains in were also about 2,000 Army Reserve the Pentagon’s north Soldiers supporting operations in an other- parking lot, all in 72 than-mobilized status, such as for training, hours ..The 311th was or as full-time support Active Guard at war for more than Reserve (AGR) Soldiers . a week before the unit Others were serving on the other side was officially mobi- of the world ..Less than a month after the lized . attack on America, America struck back at By the end of the base of the attackers in Afghanistan .. 2001, there were Within a few months, Afghanistan’s 9,020 Army Reserve repressive Taliban regime, which had Soldiers who had supported and given sanctuary to the al Army Reserve Historical Painting been called up under Qaeda terrorists who had launched the Members of the 396th Combat Support Hospital receive a patient from a Norwegian the September 14 9-11 attacks, had been driven from power Company during Task Force Eagle in Bosnia. The 396th, an Army Reserve unit from partial mobilization .. and, along with the foreign terrorists, were Washington state, treated more than 9,500 patients at the Blue Factory base in Tuzla, from October 1997 to April 1998. In addition to providing medical treatment, the 396th Most were in support in hiding in the rugged south and east of assisted in training medical personnel in the region and in coordinating mass casualty of Operation Noble Afghanistan ..Army Reserve Soldiers con- training exercies. Eagle, in defense of tributed significantly to this victory . the American home- Quartermaster Company (Mortuary Army Reserve public affairs Soldiers land (Operation went into the mountains of eastern Affairs) from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico .. Noble Eagle was changed in late 2007 Called upon almost immediately follow- Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne to Operation Enduring Freedom Division (Air Assault) on Operation ing the attack on the Pentagon, the first — CONUS .) ..Of these, 7,384 were Troop 85 Soldiers from this unit left home, Anaconda ..Army Reserve engineers Program Unit Soldiers from 273 units .. improved facilities at Kandahar while conducted an overseas deployment and The remaining 1,186 were Individual commenced its mortuary operations, medical Citizen-Soldiers treated casual-

Army Reserve Historical Painting During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 459th Engineer Company (Multi-Role Bridge Company), an Army Reserve unit from Bridgeport, West Virginia, lays an aluminum float ribbon bridge under enemy fire across the Diyala River southeast of Baghdad. The spearhead of the I Marine Expeditionary Force required the crossing in order to expand its dismounted infantry bridgehead with tank support before entering Baghdad. Other missions accomplished included bridging the Euphrates River and convoy security.

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the Afghans set up a modern defense establishment under the control of a dem- ocratically elected civilian government . In Iraq, Army Reserve Soldiers continued to battle Iraqi insurgents while laying the groundwork for Iraq’s security forces to take over this mission themselves ..A key development in accelerating the training of the new Iraqi Army was the deployment of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) to Iraq in late 2004 to speed up the new Iraqi Army’s training ..This was the first time since the U .S ..military began training Iraqi security forces that an Army Reserve unit took on this important mission . The Army Reserve’s only remaining ground combat unit served in Iraq from 2005–2006 ..The 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry, deployed there as part of the Sgt. Rachel A. Brune Sgt. Justin Jacobs, of South Amherst, Ohio, and Spec. Keith Hawkins, of Columbus, Ohio, perform last minute pre-combat checks 29th Separate Infantry Brigade, Hawaii and inspections on their trailer. The two Soldiers are truck drivers with 454th Transportation Company, an Army Reserve unit from Army National Guard ..The Army Reserve Delaware, Ohio. Soldiers of the 100th/442nd come from Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and Saipan ..In Iraq, they proudly upheld the ties at Bagram air base ..Army Reserve by loyalists of Saddam Hussein’s regime, heritage inherited from the original 100th civil affairs Soldiers operated throughout Iraqi insurgents and foreign fighters .. Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Afghanistan to help the Afghan people More American casualties were suffered Combat Team of World War II, the most recover from decades of war . following the end of major combat opera- decorated U .S ..Army units of their size tions than were lost before May 1 ..Of the In May 2002, Lt ..Gen ..James R .. in American history ..During its year in 22 Army Reserve Soldiers killed during Helmly, a former Deputy Chief ..Army Iraq, four Soldiers from the battalion were Operation Iraqi Freedom from March Reserve, and former commander of the killed and 45 wounded . Operation Provide Refuge Joint Task to November 2003, only two were killed At the beginning of 2008, the number Force at Fort Dix, became the Army before May 1 . of Army Reserve Soldiers killed in both Reserve’s second three-star chief ..Like Not all of the Army Reserve’s battles in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring his predecessors since 1992, he was also the early 21st century were against armed Freedom had grown to 153 ..More than double-hatted, serving simultaneously as foes ..Nature was an equally tough adver- 1,250 had been wounded in action . the Commanding General of U .S ..Army sary ..In 2005, for example, Army Reserve Reserve Command . Soldiers kept busy providing assistance to As operations continue in Iraq and Afghanistan and as new fronts open in On March 20, 2003, Operation Iraqi the victims of numerous natural disasters the War against Terrorism, more casual- Freedom began, with Army Reserve at home and abroad ..Especially valuable were the Army Reserve helicopter units ties are to be expected ..Pain and sorrow Soldiers in action right from the begin- that provided assistance to the people of will still have to be borne by both Soldiers ning and fighting their way to Baghdad the U .S ..Gulf Coast in September follow and their loved ones as the men and alongside their comrades-in-arms from - ing Hurricane Katrina and to the people women of the Army Reserve do now and the other U .S ..Armed Forces and coali- of Pakistan following a devastating earth in the future what they have been doing tion allies ..The 459th Engineer Company - so honorably and so well for a century (Multi-Role Bridge Company), for quake in October . — answering the nation’s call to serve . example, built bridges across the Diyala As the Army Reserve ended its first and Euphrates Rivers under fire to support century of service, it remained heavily the I Marine Expeditionary Force’s committed to the continuing operations What Has Changed and advance to Baghdad . in Iraq and Afghanistan ..In Afghanistan, What Doesn’t Change Although major combat operations in Army Reserve Soldiers were decisively The Army Reserve that embarks on Iraq were declared to be over on May 1, engaged in helping the emerging Afghan its second century in 2008 is one of its 2003, combat did not cease ..A difficult democracy ..They served as part of the most battle-tested and experienced forces guerilla campaign continued, one waged coalition forces building a 70,000-man strong Afghan National Army and helping since its creation ..More than 180,000

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Army Reserve Warrior-Citizens have been a force of about 190,000 — are mobilized April 2004 ..Staff Sgt ..Jason Fetty, a 339th called to duty since the terrorist attacks of routinely and deployed in 18–20 countries Combat Support Hospital Soldier attached September 11, 2001, with more than 41,000 around the world, to include the combat to the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade, received having been mobilized more than once . zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the the first Silver Star awarded to an Army United States .. Reserve Soldier in Afghanistan after hand- The experience of the current Chief, to-hand combat with a suicide bomber that Army Reserve, and Commanding General Not only conceptually but through- foiled his attack on the Khost Hospital in of U .S ..Army Reserve Command, gives an out its first 100 years, the Army Reserve February 2007 . indication of the level of increased service changed from a force that was a smaller for Reserve Soldiers in recent times ..On mirror image of the Active Army to one They and their fellow Army Reserve May 25, 2006, Lt ..Gen ..Jack C ..Stultz that complemented the Total Force with comrades serving today show by their became the third three-star chief and combat support, combat service support commitment and actions that they are also the third chief to take up the mantle and training capabilities ..Many of these worthy successors to the Organized of Army Reserve leadership during the capabilities were and remain either exclu- Reserve Doughboys and G .I .s who Global War on Terrorism ..When he took sively or primarily in the Army Reserve . preceded them ..As the Army Reserve con- on his new responsibilities, he did so as a What did not change, though, was the tinues to evolve and transform throughout veteran of Operations Desert Shield/Desert nature of its people ..Today’s Warrior- its next 100 years, it will do so, as it Storm in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, Citizens remain as dedicated, professional always has, in the capable hands of those of Operations Joint Endeavor/Joint Guard and courageous as yesterday’s Citizen- men and women who choose to be “twice in the Balkans and of Operation Iraqi Soldiers . the citizen .” Freedom in Iraq and Kuwait . Spec ..Jeremy Church of the 724th “The role of the Army Reserve has Transportation Company received the first Today’s U.S. Army transformed dramatically, from a Strategic Silver Star awarded to an Army Reserve Reserve to an Operational Force,” Stultz Reserve: A Ready Force Soldier in Iraq for battling insurgents said on the Army Reserve 99th birthday . and rescuing other Soldiers and civil- The Army Reserve is an integral part Some 25,000–30,000 Soldiers — from ians during an ambush on his convoy in of the world’s best Army ..Army Reserve Soldiers form the backbone of our nation’s

Sgt. Denise Schultz Army Reserve Maj. William Wynn, Office of Military Cooperation-Afghanistan, guides in two U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 helicopters for a landing near Gardez, Afghanistan in September 2004.

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military, applying specialized-skill rich Kosovo, the Iraq War and most recently, Active Duty experience in the Army, services and civilian work experience to the Global War on Terrorism . Navy, Air Force or Marines . America’s national security mission . • Since 1990, the Army Reserve has been • The Army Reserve is composed of The Army Reserve provides a highly deployed to support every American three groups of Soldiers — the Selected skilled, flexible force that supports the military operation, including peacekeep- Reserve, the Individual Ready Reserve Army when and where it is needed with: ing and humanitarian missions . (IRR) and the Retired Reserve . • Combat Support • Army Reserve Soldiers — or Citizen- • Almost 40 percent of Army Reserve Soldiers — bring specialized Soldiers are minorities, the highest of • Combat Service Support civilian-acquired capabilities to the any branch of the U .S ..military .. • Peacekeeping operational force ..Some civilian careers • Women are eligible for the vast major- include medical professional, lawyer, • Nation-building ity of the jobs in the Army Reserve, and teacher, community planner, elected • Civil Support almost one quarter of Army Reserve official, business owner, coach, engineer, Soldiers are women ., and Since 1908, Army Reserve Soldiers law enforcement officer, civil affairs spe- have trained and served with excellence cialist and student . • Nearly half of Army Reserve Soldiers through World War I, World War II, are between 17 and 29 years of age, and • Up to half of the Soldiers who join the Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, Panama, 49 percent are between 30 and 49 years Army Reserve each year have prior the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, of age ..

Petty Officer 2nd Class Greg Pierot Sgt. Jamie Rivas, from the 312th Tactical Psychological Operations Company, hands out an issue of the “Baghdad Now” newspaper to an Iraq lady in the Rashid district of Baghdad. The 312th is an Army Reserve unit based in Upper Marlboro, Md.

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ROLE WITHIN THE ARMY More than two-thirds STATS AT A GLANCE • The Army cannot function effectively of the Army’s: • 360: The number of doctors who started without the Army Reserve, which pro- the Army Reserve in 1908 . • Civil Affairs Units vides about half of the Army’s combat • More than 26,000: The total number support and a quarter of the Army’s • Psychological Operations Units of Army Reserve Soldiers serving on mobilization base expansion capability . active duty today in support of current • Combat Support Hospitals • At 5 .3 percent of the Army’s budget, the operations . • Medical Brigades Army Reserve provides a cost-effective • More than 19,000: The number of Army solution to the Army’s need for special- • Theater Signal Commands Reserve Soldiers currently serving ized capabilities . abroad . • Expeditionary Sustainment Commands • Two-thirds of the Army’s medical capa- • 7,000: The number of Army Reserve bilities come from the Army Reserve .. • Internment Resettlement Battalions Soldiers supporting homeland defense • 96 percent of all civil affairs forces in • Petroleum Battalions missions at training centers, mobiliza- the military reside in the Army and tion sites and medical centers . • Petroleum Groups 93 percent of those are in the Army • Approximately 170,000: The number Reserve .. • Military History Units of Army Reserve Soldiers mobilized in • 66 percent of all psychological opera- support of the Global War on Terrorism tions forces in the military are in the Nearly half of the Army’s: since 9/11 . Army Reserve . • 98: The percent of Army Reserve units • Movement Control Battalions The Army Reserve contributes to that have provided mobilized Soldiers the Army’s total force by providing… • Chemical Brigades in Iraq, Afghanistan and 18 other countries . • Chemical Battalions 100 percent of • Approximately 42,000: The number of • Adjutants General Units (Personnel Army Reserve Soldiers who have served the Army’s: Service Delivery Redesign) on multiple deployments .

• Internment Resettlement Brigades • Transportation Command • More than 140: The number of Army Reserve Soldiers who have lost their • Judge Advocate General Units (Legal • Terminal Battalions lives during Operation Enduring Support Organizations) Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom . • Public Affairs Units • Medical Groups • 100th: The Army Reserve Anniversary • Army Bands being commemorated across America on • Railway Units • Finance Units April 23rd, 2008 — marking a century • Training & Exercise Divisions of service by America’s Citizen-Soldiers . • Chaplains Additional information about the Army • Water Purification Companies Reserve’s 100th Anniversary can be found online at www.armyreserve.army.mil ..

This version of the history of the United States Army Reserve was written with contributions from the Dr. Lee S. Harford, Jr., Dr. Kathryn Roe Coker, Jason W. Wetzel and Colonel Randy Pullen, U.S. Army Reserve, Retired.

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Chiefs of the U.S Army Reserve Rank name Date Took Date Left Office Office

Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz* 25 May 2006 present

Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly* 5 May 2002 19 May 2006

Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Plewes* 25 May 1998 4 May 2002

Maj. Gen. Max Baratz* 1 Feb 1994 24 May 1998

Maj. Gen. roger W. Sandler* 1 Aug 1991 31 Jan 1994

Maj. Gen. William F. Ward Jr.* 1 Dec 1986 31 Jul 1991

Brig. Gen. harry J. Mott, III 1 Aug 1986 30 Nov 1986

Maj. Gen. William R. Berkman 1 Jun 1979 31 Jul 1986

Maj. Gen. henry Mohr 1 Jun 1975 31 May 1979

Maj. Gen. J. Milnor Roberts 1 Jun 1971 31 May 1975

Maj. Gen. William J. Sutton 1 Sep 1963 31 May 1971

Maj. Gen. frederick M. Warren 1 Sep 1959 31 Aug 1963

Maj. Gen. ralph A. Palladino 1 Aug 1957 31 May 1959

Brig. Gen. philip F. Lindeman 19 Nov 1953 31 Jul 1957

Brig. Gen. hugh M. Milton, II 24 Feb 1951 18 Nov 1953

Maj. Gen. James B. Cress 1 Jan 1950 31 Jan 19517

Brig. Gen. Wendell Westover 1 Dec 1947 14 Nov 1949

Brig. Gen. edward S. Bres 15 Oct 1945 30 Nov 1947

Brig. Gen. edward W. Smith 16 Sep 1942 14 Oct 1945

Brig. Gen. frank E. Lowe 5 Jun 1941 10 Aug 1942

Brig. Gen. John H. Hester 21 Jun 1940 23 Mar 1941

Brig. Gen. charles F. Thompson 16 Sep 1938 9 Jun 1940

Brig. Gen. edwin S. Hartshorn 1 July 1935 15 Sep 1938

Brig. Gen. charles D. Herron 1 July 1930 30 Jun 1935

Col. David L. Stone 5 Mar 1927 30 Jun 1930

Col. Stanley H. Ford 1 Oct 1926 10 Feb 1927

Lt. Col. frederick B. Ryons 15 Aug 1926 30 Sep 1926

Lt. Col. John C. Pegram 31 Dec 1925 14 Aug 1926

Col. Douglas Potts 1 Aug 1924 30 Dec 1925

Maj. Walter O. Boswell 2 July 1923 31 July 1924

Maj. Charles F. Thompson 12 July 1923 1 Ju1y 1923

* Also served as commanding general, US Army Reserve Command .

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Command Chief Warrant Officers

CW5 James E. Thompson (OCAR) Sep 07 – present

CW5 Dave Koch (OCAR) feb 04 – sep 07

CW5 Don Garlow (OCAR) jul 02 – jan 04

CW5 George Holland (USARC) jun 03 – feb 06

Command SergeantS Major

Leon E. Caffie Aug 06 – Present

Michele S. Jones Oct 02 – Aug 06

Alex Lackey Oct 99 – Oct 02

Jack Rucynski Feb 96 – Sep 99

Collin Younger Sep 91 – Jan 96

Douglas E. Murray Oct 86 – Aug 91

Edward Reilly Sep 85 – Sep 86

Cornelius Boykin Jun 80 – Aug 85

Donald Columbo Sep 77 – May 80

William Foley May 75 – Aug 77

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Logistics Officers Don New Branch Insignia hat is it? The “Logistics” branch will distribution enterprise managers of orga- assignments in their secondary specialty .. Wbe the newest branch of the Army for nizations with global impact, such as the This becomes more pronounced as the commissioned officers, officially estab- Army Materiel Command and the Defense officer rises in rank . lished on 1 January 2008 by General Order Logistics Agency . Officers will wear the Logistics branch of the Secretary of the Army ..This branch Officer personnel managers will be insignia (available now in Military will be comprised of logistics officers in focused on getting officers experienced in Clothing Sales stores) along with the the rank of CPT-COL and replaces the multifunctional logistics, while at the same regimental crest associated with their sec- Functional Area 90 (Multifunctional time alternating them into assignments ondary specialty AOC . Logistician) program ..Establishment of where they will work and keep up their For more information, go to the the Logistics branch fully supports the skills in their secondary AOC ..Although Logistics branch website ..http://www. modular Army and further emphasizes the officers will hold both multifunctional cascom.army.mil/cascombasic2/public- need for multifunctional Army logistics and functional positions throughout their site/logbranch/index.htm .. officers ..A MILPER message was released career, officers should expect to have more in December, further explaining imple- Logistics branch assignments and fewer mentation guidance . What is happening? Effective January 2008, all officers in the rank of CPT- COL of the Ordnance, Quartermaster, or Transportation branches who have completed the Captains Career Course will become Logistics branch officers ..This change will occur across all components of the Army . What does this mean for officers? For lieutenants entering the Army in FY 08 and beyond, they will begin their careers as Ordnance, Quartermaster, or Transportation officers ..Their focus is to become technically and tactically pro- ficient in these basic branch specialties .. Upon promotion to captain and completion of either the Combined Logistics Captains Career Course (CLC3) or the Reserve Component-Captains Career Course, they will automatically convert to the Logistics branch ..Logistics branch officers will transition from a functional branch focus, to a broader focus on logistics as a whole ..Between their 4th–9th years of service, they will gain experiences and develop themselves as logisticians, as well as providing specific functional expertise (secondary AOC) to their units when required ..As officers move from the company-grade to field-grade level, they will continue to broaden their experiences not only as logisticians at the tactical level, Spec. Mekonya Cheefus but also as supply chain, maintenance, and Maj. Gen. Alan D. Bell, deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Reserve Command, pins the new logistics branch insignia onto Maj. Charles Birdsong, USARC G4, XO. This newest branch of the Army was officially established on Jan. 1, 2008.

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Become a “Super Logistician” with new TLOG course By Ken Cox Instruction is hands-on ..Students Human Resources Command is evalu- Theater Logistics Studies grapple with a theater-level campaign ating TLog for the establishment of a Program Course Director plan that begins with a theater-opening skill identifier (SI) that will mark TLog Army Logistics Management College scenario in which they must work through graduates for assignments into those key planning for reception, staging, and support operations and planning posi The U .S ..Army Logistics Management - onward movement ..Case studies are intro College (ALMC) developed a new course, - tions at theater and above levels ..TLog’s the Theater Logistics Studies Program duced to further challenge and expand the long-term effectiveness will be ensured by (TLog), to replace the long-established students’ minds in areas such as providing having selected graduates who have served Logistics Executive Development Course disaster relief, resourcing unit rotations, in theater logistics assignments return to (LEDC) ..Why the change? Because, in the and setting up tracking and interroga- ALMC as instructors to help train and current environment of persistent conflict tor networks for cargo or unit tracking .. educate their successors ..Establishing the and Army and joint transformation, the Presentations by logistics leaders from the SI will allow the Army Human Resources Army must develop a cadre of logisticians Army, the Department of Defense, and Command to effectively track graduates who are equipped with the operational industry enhance the to facilitate use of and strategic-level tools needed to sustain learning process by their knowledge, The Army must develop a cadre of the Modular Force and solve larger scale touching on subjects skills and attri- theater-level logistics problems . such as distributed logisticians who are equipped with butes . operations, contrac- the operational and strategic-level TLog is designed to fill that need ..Its An Associate tors accompanying TLog (ATLog) goal is to develop agile, innovative logis- tools needed to sustain the Modular the force, Army pre- program is also ticians who have the decision analysis, Force and solve larger scale positioned stocks, under development logistics knowledge, and other skill sets theater-level logistics problems. civil support, recon- as a conversion to find solutions for complex operational stitution, theater from the Associate logistics challenges ..TLog will provide distribution, supply LEDC ..It involves students with instruction in distributed chain management, outsourcing and completion of two resident two-week theater operations, joint logistics plan- reverse logistics ..Visits to Letterkenny phases at ALMC, three distance learning ning, regional economic considerations, Army Depot, Pa ., Defense Distribution phases on line, and the Joint Course on capabilities and requirements determina- Center, Susquehanna, Pa ., and the aerial Logistics ..This course will also provide tion for the force mix and how to address port of embarkation at Dover Air Force the SI once approved ..The first pilot phase gaps in the entire DTLOMSPF (doctrine, Base, Del ., complement the classroom will be conducted this year and the entire training, leader development, organiza- time and provide students with a visual course will be available starting in FY09 .. tion, materiel, Soldier support, personnel, representation of the sustaining base that The latest status on TLog and ATLog is facilities) spectrum, contracting, data supports the armed forces in the field . available on the ALMC web site: analysis and application, and strategic and . TLog also has a cooperative degree logistics policy . http://www.almc.army.mil/ . program with the Florida Institute of TLog is a much-needed course that TLog offers an intense combination Technology (FIT) ..TLog students are prepares logisticians for macro-level of logistics study and hands-on exercises able to enroll at FIT and earn a Master of problems and introduces them to the and case studies for majors and senior Science degree in logistics management organizations and skill sets available to captains designated for planning positions after a year of study at Fort Lee, Va ..They help solve them ..The current operating within the theater sustainment commands may also pursue that degree using distance tempo and the shortage of logistics offi- (TSCs), expeditionary sustainment com- learning . mands (ESCs), and corps and Army G–4 cers make sending them to the course a The pilot TLog course began in August (logistics) shops ..The course broadens the challenge ..With two TLog courses each 2007 with a diverse class of majors and year, commanders can pick some of their individual’s logistics foundation — devel- senior captains (active component and best and brightest majors and senior cap oped through previous education, training, - reserve component), international officers, and personal experiences — by providing tains and send them to a future course .. and Department of the Army civilians ..The a comprehensive military supply chain Identify your best candidates now for lessons learned from the pilot course have educational experience within the overall the next TLog iteration, and you will get been used to update and revise the course . Department of Defense logistics system . back a “super” logistician ..

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TLOG Studies Program [ Focus: The logistics planner / executor / problem-solver at the operational level for Theater and Expeditionary Sustainment Commands Approach: Theater / Operational logistics focus

Joint Logistics framework up front — builds to Theater Scenario with. mini-case studies to apply logistics problem solving

Logistics Operators, Roles / Interface / Visibility: e .g ., AMC (Army),. DLA (Defense), TRANSCOM (Joint) and Industry

Pre-deployment — RSO&I — Sustainment & Stability Operations — Redeployment

Common Teaching Scenario

Guided Experiential Learning

Guest Expert Lectures / Guided

Discussions / Reading Program / Field Trips / Practical Exercises and Analysis Briefings

Endstate: To provide an unmatched logistics education that makes TLog graduates highly sought-after assets (problem solvers) in the field for both the near and long-term .

12 Hours of Graduate Credit Accepted by Florida Tech (FIT)

If interested, check out http://www.segs.fit.edu/es/ftlee

SOURCE: Army Logistics Management College, Fort Lee, VA

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Reserve Components National Security Course Course Content Course Description National Crisis • National Security Strategy The Reserve Components National Response Exercise • Resourcing for National Security Security Course (RCNSC) is a two-week seminar offered to senior officers and The exercise provides an experience in Strategy non-commissioned officers (E8-E9) of the national decision-making that identifies • Regional Briefs U .S ..Reserve Components, allied officers, and applies the instruments of national power in support of national interest ..It • Informational Technology and Security and select civilians working in national security ..The RCNSC is designed to lay calls for the application of a wide range of • Homeland Security a foundation for students moving on to political, economic, military, diplomatic, • Political-Military Simulation Exercises joint command management and staff and social measurements to advance national objectives, emphasizing joint. • Diplomacy responsibilities in a multinational, inter- governmental, or joint national security and combined operations .. • The Legislative Process setting ..The curriculum consists of lec- • The Legal Aspects of The Long War tures, panel discussions, seminars, on-site For more information: • Press and National Security visits, and a simulation exercise dealing with national security policy and defense www.ndu.edu/jrac resource management ..The presenters are faculty members of the National War College, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), the Information Resource Management College (IRMC), and other distinguished speakers . AR SLRP Student Loan Repayment he Army Reserve will implement a Tnew Soldier self-service web site for the Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) on 1 February 2008 ..The web site is part of the Web-Enabled Education Benefit System (WEBS) where a variety of educational programs including Tuition Assistance, REAP, MGIB and now SLRP, are accessible to Soldiers ..Soldiers may access WEBS by visiting https://rcms. ocar.army.pentagon.mil/Education and using their AKO user ID and password .. After logging on to WEBS, Soldiers should select the “My Loan Repayment Program Home Page” link .

Effective 1 February 2008, units are not Center will not accept payment claims 60 days of their SLRP anniversary date responsible to certify DD 2475s or forward from other than the web site after 31 will receive an AKO email prompting SLRP claims to the USAR Pay Center March 2008 . them to visit the web site to initiate their (UPC) ..Soldiers will use the SLRP web SLRP claim ..The SLRP web site contains The web site receives information on site to print DD Form 2475s to initiate an on-line user’s guide and a function for SLRP eligible Soldiers from Recruit their annual loan repayment application, the user to submit questions and inquiries .. Quota System (REQUEST) and Retention manage their loan information, inquire A copy of the user’s guide is also available Management System (RMS) ..Newly eli- on the status of payments, or view infor- from the G-8 web page on the USARC gible Soldiers will receive an AKO email mation on the SLRP ..Beginning 1 April Intranet at https://usarcintra/dcscompt. 2008, the SLRP web site will be the only prompting them to visit the web site and record their loan information ..Beginning www/SOTeam/SOTeam-C/New%20Web/ acceptable mechanism for Soldiers to initi- Reserve%20Pay/dcs_g8_Ref.htm .. ate their SLRP payments ..The USAR Pay 1 February 2008, Soldiers who are within

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BCT Soldiers Get More Time for PT, Basic Rifle Marksmanship

By Chris Rasmussen/The Leader Soldiers may need some reinforcement “It may come at the expense of some ORT JACKSON, S.C. (TRADOC News training,” he said . of our leadership having to go with back- to-back rotations, or more, because we FService, Jan. 17, 2007) — The first Fort Col ..Kevin Shwedo, Fort Jackson’s understand that we are getting ready to put Jackson battalion to make the switch from deputy commanding officer, said the America’s sons and daughters in harm’s nine to 10 weeks of Basic Combat Training installation can support the extra week of way ..We would rather sacrifice some per is reporting a seamless changeover . training added to the calendar .. - sonal time to give them that experience ”. All Army BCT installations officially made the shift to 10 weeks Nov ..2 ..At Fort Jackson, three companies in 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment were the first to make the change . “The transition to the 10-week BCT has gone smoothly with no major issues,” said Lt ..Col ..Reginald Cotton, commander, 3rd Bn ., 34th Inf ..Reg ..“So far we have seen no real issues .” The U .S ..Army Training and Doctrine Command, which oversees BCT, will revert back to the nine-week program for all cycles March 21 to accommodate the anticipated 2008 summer surge ..After that, Fort Jackson will conduct 10-week training across the board . “We have a little more time to spend with them on rifle marksmanship and physical training,” said 1st Sgt ..Lawrence Coleman, former acting command sergeant major, 3rd Bn ., 34th Inf ..Reg ..“In the past we have had some issues at the end of the cycle with PT and rifle marksmanship and this will allow us to spend more time on those issues .” The increase is the first change in length since 1998, when BCT increased from eight weeks to nine ..Despite the additional time, the number of Warrior tasks and battle drills will remain unchanged . “No new tasks were added for the additional week, which I feel was the right call to make,” Cotton said ..“It allows for extra time on the range, additional PT and advanced first-aid training .” “The main advantage is that it allows Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr. Basic Training Soldiers at Fort Jackson negotiate an obstacle on the confidence course. Army basic training is ten weeks in length drill sergeants an extra week to concen- and is located at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. trate on those tasks that they feel the

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Army Reserve Chinooks conduct high-altitude search-and-rescue training on Mount Rainier

By Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Coon them the supplies and material they need placed the dummy in a sleeping bag for Public Affairs Office on the ground, and then extract the patient protection against the helicopter’s prep 70th Regional Readiness Command and our people,” said Mike Carney, air wash, and then secured it onto a litter, OUNT RAINIER, Wash. — Mount Rainier mission advisor, Mount Rainier National a metal stretcher used to carry injured Mtowers 14,000 feet above Puget Sound, Park Service . climbers . beckoning thousands of adventurous The Chinook pilots positioned the air- Flight engineer Sgt ..1st Class Stephen climbers, daring them to reach its summit .. craft hovering about 100 feet above the Rhoads, and Cpl ..Anthony Horrace, Not all climbers achieve this quest because mountain side ..Aircrews in the back of the worked together to raise the litter, and then of the treacherous climbing conditions helicopter used a winch and cable system the rescuers, taking care to raise the litter and extreme weather changes Mount with a jungle penetrator attached to lower and rescue climbers through the small Rainier has to offer ..A few times a year, the rescue climbers to the mountain . hatch in the bottom of the helicopter . an Army Reserve Chinook helicopter unit Continuing the rescue as if the dummy About 10,000 people attempt to and Mount Rainier National Park Rescue was a real climber, the rescue climbers climb Mount Rainier between May and Climbers are called out to conduct Search-and-Rescue (SAR) missions for lost or injured climbers . To reach missing or stranded climbers above 8000 feet, the National Park calls on Army Reserve Soldiers from Company A, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash .. and their CH-47 Chinook helicopters to help in the search and rescue . “The unit has been working with the Mount Rainier National Park Service conducting high-altitude search-and- rescue missions since 1990,” said Maj .. William Wynn, the unit’s commander . On clear sunny day in August, with Mount Rainier in a forgiving mood, the Chinook air crew and National Park Rescue Climbers conducted a SAR training mission on the mountain’s north-side . This day’s training mission was to be just like a real world mission ..After picking up the rescue climbers at Kautz Helibase, the Chinook flew to a site where a 160-pound dummy was used to represent an injured climber . “We are going to take some of our skilled climbing rangers and enact a scenario at about 9000 feet where we Maj. Hillary Luton will insert our rescue personnel, give Soldiers of Company A, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, along with rescue workers from the Mount Rainier National Park Service, perform simulated rescue operations on Mount Rainier. A rescue worker is lowered down from a CH-47D Chinook helicopter.

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September ..Even during the summer months, the mountain weather can deteriorate quickly, causing treacherous conditions for injured climbers and for the rescue crews trying to reach them . “It can be a pretty hostile and unforgiving environment,” said Wynn . On average Mount Rainier will see 20–30 search-and-rescue missions a year, and not all of them call for the Chinooks to conduct high-altitude rescues ..However, when they do occur they tend to become intense, complex high-altitude missions, using complex rescue resources, technical mountain rescue personnel, and involve flying in bad or windy weather . “When you’re doing high-altitude search-and-rescues, you’re mixing the worst elements that you’re not used to doing all the time or day-to-day,” said Mike Gauthier, supervisory climbing Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Coon ranger, Mount Rainier National Park Pilots from Company A, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, steady their CH-47 Chinook helicopter as a Mount Rainier National Park Rescue Climber secures a training dummy representing an injured climber needing to be airlifted off the side of Mount Rainier. Service ..“We can’t afford a full-time helicopter or have a helicopter dedicated to this mission all the time, so working with lost or injured climbers ..Fortunately, no “Operating the winch is not a war task the Army provides us with something we climbers have been killed; one mission we do every day ..If we do have to retrieve will never have ”. was aborted after the climber was found downed aviators when overseas or rescue When the park service learns of an safe, and on the second rescue they air- ground support personnel, this is a good injured or missing climber, they must lifted an injured climber with a dislocated opportunity for us to train on skills that complete a notification process to mobilize shoulder from 11,000 feet . carry right over to needs we will see when support from the Chinooks . in theater,” said Rhoads . Trying to conduct a SAR mission on “We give a heads up to Fort Lewis, the side of mountain and with ever chang- The benefit for the public is seeing two letting them know we are making this ing conditions poses challenges not only federal agencies working together perform- request and they start working their to rescue climbers, but also the air crews ing a public service . side of the street,” said Mike Carney, air battling turbulent winds in updrafts and “It is a win-win for Army Reserve and mission advisor, Mount Rainier National down drafts ..Air crews must wear oxygen the Park Service because of the valu- Park Service . masks because of the high altitude . able training we receive on high-altitude When the call comes in from the Park The unit uses some of its most expe- search-and-rescues,” Rhoads added . Service, the air crew preps the Chinook rienced pilots while conducting SAR Most of the Army Reserve air crews dedicated for the SAR missions ..The missions ..Chief Warrant Officer 4 Bob and the National Park rescue climbers Chinook will usually be en route to or Agee, a pilot trainer for the unit, has are volunteers who risk their lives to save standing by at Kautz Helibase on Mount been flying Chinook helicopters since the injured or lost climbers in treacherous and Rainier awaiting approval for the rescue . Vietnam War and has over 20 years of hazardous conditions on the mountain .. SAR experience ..Chief Warrant Officer 4 “When they receive their mission The National Park Service is very con- Scott Salkovics is another pilot with many number, we’re sitting here ready to go 20 cerned about the safety of climbers ..Mount years of experience flying Chinooks, but minutes out,” said Carney . Rainer can be an unforgiving mountain .. his experience also includes being a skilled Climbers trying to reach its summit must While at Kautz Helibase, the air crews mountain climber . conduct face-to-face meetings with park be prepared for adverse and challenging rangers to receive updated mountain The type of training air crews are doing conditions ..The Chinook helicopter is weather conditions, SAR mission details on Mount Rainier will apply to their work not a safety net for climbers looking for a and to pick up the rescue climbers . they have to do on other high altitude free ride home, but another tool the Park missions in the United States or in Iraq or Service can use during emergency rescue The Chinook air crews have been called Afghanistan . operations .. out only twice so far this season to rescue

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O Canada! By. Spec. Mekonya Cheefus the same time, it provides a challenging as much personnel as we have ..In the Army Reserve Public Affairs and interesting duty for U .S ..Army officers U .S ..Army we are at about 400,000 ..In and career-enlisted personnel . the Canadian Army, they only have about The Army Reserve places a priority 19,500 active and about 16,500 Reserve .. on retaining Warrior-Citizens after their “This was a unique assignment because So it is very crucial that they identify mandatory service obligation (MSO) is ful- it definitely enhanced my professional people for various exercises because they filled ..The value these mature, trained and development and career ..It gave me a have personnel density issues ..So right ready, skilled-rich Soldiers bring to the different outlook on how other foreign now, they are just as stretched as we are total force cannot be overlooked ..The AGR military governments operate on a daily in terms of military support to other program offers Soldiers who complete basis,” said Maj ..Eric Robinson who was operations ..So what’s happening is they’re their service obligation an opportunity to assigned to work with the Canadian Army starting to bring in more joint services continue serving on a full-time status and Reserves in 2005 as the Senior Provincial solutions just like we are,” said Robinson . contribute to the mission of the Reserve Reconstruction Team Observer Controller Component . in Ottawa . Due to the nature of his responsibilities, Robinson was able to travel throughout The U .S ..Military Personnel Exchange Exchange personnel are given mean- Europe and Canada on a semi-regular Program (MPEP) is a rare opportunity for ingful and responsible assignments basis ..He also learned a lot about his anyone in the AGR program, or activated commensurate with their grade and quali- Reserve counterparts located north of the border as well as benefits provided to Soldiers .. Reservists in Canada only receive about half of what an Army Reservist in U .S ..does in terms of benefits ..As a result, the Canadian Army loses many Soldiers to their booming economy due to many natural resources . “The ones who do stay do it for the same reasons we do, for the dedication Courtesy Photo to country and duty,” Maj. Eric Robinson (third from left) served as the Senior Provincial Reconstruction Team Observer Controller Trainer at the Canadian Manouevre Training said Robinson . Center, Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Nov. 2006. The Army Reserve National Guard or Reserve Soldier ..As a fications ..They are integrated into the host is no longer a strategic reserve element .. two year assignment with possible exten- organization as though they belonged to Soldiers must be provided more joint sion of up one year, the opportunities for the army to which they are assigned ..A education and training opportunities career enhancement are endless . Memorandum of Agreement or MOA out- that offer an increase in the AGR pool of lines the general conditions applicable to MPEP is a mutually established person- multi-national experience as well as foster the exchange of personnel for that particu nel exchange program between U .S ..Army - mutual confidence with other nations . personnel and the Army personnel of lar program . “The people we work with may not nec- other nations ..The goal is to foster a mutu Robinson was responsible for monitor - - essarily wear the same uniform or speak ally beneficial exchange of experiences, ing all the collective training activities that the same language as we do but they are professional knowledge, and doctrine to supported task forces going to Afghanistan our coalition partners, said Robinson, “we the maximum extent possible within exist- and also any other training exercises in as Army Reservists should get to train ing policies ..According to AR 614-10, it Ottawa . with these people before we go to war so encourages the mutual confidence and “What I did observe is that they carry we already have a relationship when we do respect necessary to enable harmonious out business the same way we do ..One get into theatre of operations .” .. relationships to exist between the U .S .. major difference is that they don’t have Army and the armies of other nations ..At

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210th RSG Unit assists Yabucoa Benefits from Russians at Torgau Army Training

Capt. Anthony John Brig. Gen. David S. Elmo, commanding general, 1st Mission Support Command, Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico vigorously shakes the hand of Russian Colonel Somolyuk, Brigade Commander of an infantry regiment that worked closely with the 210th Regional Support Group in their logisti- Sgt. 1st Class John Gonzalez cal support mission for the bilateral U.S.-Russian exercise, TORGAU 2007, held at Hohenfels, Soldiers with the 448th Engineer Battalion are spending their two-weeks of annual Active Duty Germany. Col. Somoluk expressed to General Elmo his genuine respect for the professionalism Training helping to clean and dredge the accumulated soil, vegetation, and debris from an that Col. Hector Lopez’s 210th RSG Soldiers displayed during TORGAU 2007. existing creek in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.

246th and 311th Honor fellow Warriors

Photo: U.S. Army Under the watchful eye of Jay Bevard, Director, U.S. Army Memorial Affairs Activity-Europe, Landstuhl, Germany, Sgt. Orlando Rosa, 246th QM, tucks in the stars as Pfc. Jose Roman, 311th QM, holds the colors. On the other end, Spec. Carlos Irizarry, 311th QM, tucks in the stripes as Staff Sgt. Eric Peña, 246th QM, ensures that the colors remain horizontally straight during a practice place ment of the U.S. flag. Being the only two remaining Mortuary Affairs units in the Army Reserve, the 246th and the 311th Quartermaster Company (Mortuary Affairs) honors our Warrior Ethos — “I Will Never Leave A Fallen Comrade.”

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Tradewinds 2008 radewinds 2008 is hosted by the TDominican Republic ..Its focus is on Participating enhancing regional cooperation and Countries Include responsiveness in the areas of maritime and ground security, civil-military coordi- Antigua-Barbuda nation during disaster response, and other Bahamas designated military and law enforcement Barbados missions . Belize Bermuda Tradewinds 2008 will Canada Dominica • Train participating nations in selected Capt. Anthony John Dominican Republic [Host] anti-terrorism/security and other aviation/ Lt. Col. Hector Agosto Rivera, Logistics Officer in Charge, 1st French-Antilles Military Service Command, explains the role that the 1st MSC ground/maritime military skill sets . and the 166th Regional Support Group will play in the upcoming Grenada • Train Caribbean Joint Task Force in multi national Tradewinds 2008 to a team of key participants Guyana as Dominican Republic’s Brig. Gen. Francisco Gil Ramirez, command & control of a multinational Commandante de la Primera Brigada de Infanterias Ejercito combined unit . Haiti Nacional and Lt. Col. Lizette Brown, Command Surgeon, 1st Jamaica Mission Support Command, listen. • Conduct a leadership development course for the Caribbean NCO Corps Netherlands-Antilles Suriname • Train forces on designated marksman- Approximately 500 U.S. service men and ship and Martial arts skill sets . St ..Kitts-Nevis women from all services will be participating St ..Lucia • Conduct small boat tactics, engineering, in the exercise. They will be joined by more and coxswain training in conjunction with St ..Vincent than 1,000 participants from the region and the exercise . Trinidad-Tobago the United Kingdom. United Kingdom United States

311th ESC trains for Deployment to Middle East By Sgt. Tracy Ellingsen with one of its downtrace units, the 4th Public Affairs Office Sustainment Brigade . 311th Sustainment Command Once deployed to the Middle East, ORT LEE, Va. — The Soldiers of the the Soldiers of the 311th will work with F311th Sustainment Command, Los the 1st Theater Sustainment Command‘s Angelos, Calif ., participated in a two-week Coalition/Joint Reception Staging and Logistical Training Exercise (LTX) at Onward Movement mission ..They will Fort Lee, Va ., from Dec ..1-15, 2007 . also be responsible for the sustainment of The exercise in Virginia was tailored the units in the entire area, which is the to give the command the opportunity to largest logistical operation the U .S ..Army work directly with the 1st TSC and train has ever undertaken .. in current scenarios ..They also worked

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5502nd U.S. Army Hospital Trains in Emergency Medic Simulation By 1st Lt. Michael Meyer Pony Anderson is the Public Affairs Office Simulation Coordinator AR-MEDCOM at the ACC’s Simulation URORA, Colo. — Army Reserve Soldiers Studio . Arecently completed skill enhancing “What we do here is medical training at the Community unique as far as simula- College of Aurora (CCA), in Aurora, tion education ..As far as we Co ..The Soldiers, of the 5502nd U .S .. know, we are the first in the Army Hospital (USAH) in Aurora, spent world to implement this type their annual training using the college’s of training,” Anderson said . Simulation Studio to enhance their Since 2005, the center has medical and decision- making skills under provided emergency medical the stress of real life situations . personnel with a chance to Capt ..John Eller, training officer of train in a dedicated facility . the 5502nd USAH, coordinated with the Using the latest technol- CCA to make the training available to his ogy, instructors can leave Soldiers . students alone in the envi- “This year, we are preparing to mobi- ronment ..A control room 1st Lt. Michael Meyer lize, so we need to do everything possible allows instructors to change Patients are $50,000 mannequins that can speak and react to treatment. to get ourselves ready for that deploy- the environment and evalu- ment,” Eller said ..“I felt we needed some ate student performance . training that really addressed those skills Program administrators had breath sounds, and it had a pulse ..I needed in combat, and this Sim-Center hired professional Hollywood set build- could even check vital signs on it,” said helps,” he added . ers to create multiple environments that Hammel . The Soldiers conducted their annual simulate realistic emergency medical Staff Sgt ..James Reynolds, the training Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) experiences in the home, on the street, in a NCO of the 5502nd, says that the Soldiers educational requirements at the college’s busy lounge or restaurant . responded with positive remarks at the Simulation Studio . The simulation tested medics on their conclusion of the training ..Many graded Spec ..Amber Bachmeier said this was technical skills, as well as their situational the training as an outstanding experience . the most realistic EMT training she has awareness and site security ..Medics inter- “Soldier skills were definitely put to the ever received . acted with actors from the college posing test in the training ..Many Soldiers wanted as bystanders, photographers and potential “I think this training should be initiated to carry a full combat load and experience threats . throughout the Army ..Otherwise, the first a combat environment in future simula- time we get actual trauma training may be In one simulation, Sgt ..Richard Hammel tions,” he said . in Iraq or Afghanistan,” she said . and his team reacted to an emergency call According to Anderson, this is just at a patient’s home ..Upon arrival, they Bachmeier, an Army Reserve medic, the beginning of what CCA can provide .. encountered an intoxicated family member responded to the scene of a simulated The college has the potential to add any wielding a knife ..Hammel successfully traffic accident where a vehicle crashed environment that the military may require talked the uncle down, and evacuated the into a street side café causing several including an urban combat environment, patient without serious incident . casualties, ranging from serious to criti- aircraft disasters, or individual explosive cal ..This simulation allowed Bachmeier’s Some of the victims in the scenarios are device (IED) scenarios . instructors to test her decision-making actors from the college; others are high- The CCA offered this training to the 20 skills in a controlled, monitored envi- tech mannequins . medics of the 5502nd USAH at no charge .. ronment ..Her decisions could make the “In my scenario, the patient was an Reyolds said that plans are underway to difference between life and death in a real- actual sim-man ..It was sort of like a conduct future annual training at the life situation . robot ..It could breathe, it could talk, it facility ..

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Warrior-Citizens: An Integral Part of Today’s Army rmy Reserve Soldiers are Warrior- and deserving of the best possible, most ACitizens who contribute to their local thorough training, resourcing and support communities as they pursue their civilian from Congress and the American people . careers ..In uniform, they also contribute Here are some of their stories ..They are to our national security when they train, examples of the kinds of strength Army prepare, watch and listen for a call to arms . Reserve Soldiers bring to the operational These Army Reserve Soldiers are typical force as well as to their civilian communi- of the patriotic men and women who ties ..These Warrior-Citizens are some of have answered the Nation’s call to serve .. the 188,257 Army Reserve Soldiers mobi- Sgt. James Witkowski They are illustrative of why our Warrior- lized since Sept ..11, 2001, and demonstrate Citizens are the strength of our Nation, why Warrior-Citizens are among those are an integral part of today’s U .S ..Army, proud to be called “Army Strong .” A Trio of Silver Star army reserve soldiers

Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission Reserve’s.first Silver Star recipient in the from the VFW magazine. Iraq War ..He also is the.first member of an Army Reserve unit to earn that medal Three Army Reserve Soldiers have since the Vietnam War . earned the military’s third-highest medal for bravery in Iraq and Afghanistan . Church, serving with the 724th Transportation Company, based in By Tim Dyhouse Bartonville, Ill ., was driving the lead Staff Sgt. Jason Fetty The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan vehicle in a convoy to pick up fuel at have thrust entire units of Army Reserve Baghdad International Airport ..Between Soldiers into combat ..This unprecedented 150-200 members of the al Sadr militia use has inevitably led to valorous deeds ambushed the convoy in a residential area from these Citizen-Soldiers ..Here are the with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), stories of the three Silver Star recipients improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and to date, two from Iraq and one from small-arms.fire . Afghanistan . “There were enemy Soldiers everywhere,” Church recalled .“Bullets were “Just Glad I Didn’t Get Shot” flying through the front window ..RPGs Pfc ..Jeremy Church knows.firsthand were hitting ..IEDs were going off .. how Baghdad’s infamous airport road Thirteen IEDs went off and the 14th hit gained its reputation as once one of the us ..It blasted our tire, and we drove on most dangerous routes in Iraq ..His bravery three tires and a rim ..There was so much along that road on April 9, 2004, earned fire we couldn’t even hear the radios .” him the distinction of being the Army Pfc. Jeremy Church

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Church’s platoon leader, 1st in the convoy ..As Witkowski Lt ..Matthew Brown, was riding kept the attackers off balance next to him ..He suffered two with lethal bursts of his machine shots to the head in the initial gun, a grenade landed inside his burst ..Ripping open a.first-aid turret . kit, Church instructed the lieu- He continued.firing until the tenant to place a bandage on his blast erupted, which his body eye as he.fired his rifle at the fully absorbed, saving the three attackers while driving through other Soldiers in the Humvee but the kill zone . killing Witkowski instantly ..A Once out of range of the enemy, fellow Soldier also noted that his Church helped get Brown to a actions “pretty much saved the field hospital ..He returned to entire convoy .” the ambush site to help other At his son’s posthumous Silver Soldiers still pinned down . Star ceremony on April 9, 2006, at “When we got to the Humvee, the Joint Forces Training Base in Los so many rounds had torn through Alamitos, Calif ,. Jim Witkowski, a 101st the engine block that it was dis- Airborne Division veteran of the Vietnam abled,” Church said ..“I peered in and War, said, “This shows that he was a much the.first two sets of guys were covered in better person than I was ..I’m just so very blood, shot in the legs ..A couple of the proud of him ”. other guys had bled to death ..The insur- A member of the younger Witkowski’s gents were still coming at us ”. unit noted that James, who enlisted after Church carried both wounded Soldiers the Sept ..11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was the to a rescue vehicle and then stayed “picture-perfect American hero .” behind, trading.fire with the enemy ..A recovery team “You Just Stop Thinking extricated Church some 10 About Yourself” minutes later . Army Staff Sgt ..Jason Fetty knew “What I went through was something was wrong ..He could read it traumatic,” Church explains “It. does in the man’s face . something to you ..You shut things out ..But it made me appreciate life a lot “He was crazy in the eyes,” recalled the more ..I’ve carried dead friends out ..I 32-year-old pharmacist from Parkersburg, was working with a guy who died in my W .Va ..“He looked like he was on drugs, arms ..Most people don’t experience that and he was acting very erratic ..He jolt of reality ..Afterward, you see through definitely didn’t look right .” the stupid stuff ..As far as the medal goes, Fetty, an Army Reservist serving with I don’t think I earned it ..I’m just glad I the Joint Provincial Reconstruction Team didn’t get shot ”. of the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade, based in Church was credited with saving the Portland, Ore ., was pulling guard duty on fellow Soldiers on Oct ..26, 2005 ..In doing lives of at least.five Soldiers and four civil- Feb ..20, 2007, at the opening of a medical so, he sacrificed his own life . ians ..He returned home in February 2005, facility in Khost, Afghanistan ..He noticed but redeployed to Iraq as a specialist with Witkowski, a 32-year-old Sunrise, Ariz ., an unfamiliar man dressed like a doctor the 454th Transportation Company in resident, was manning the. .50-caliber and immediately had a bad feeling . November 2005 for another tour . machine gun in the turret of a Humvee “Every Soldier who has been in combat that day when his 23-vehicle convoy or been downrange knows when some- “Pretty Much Saved the entered a one-mile-long kill zone near thing is not right,” he said ..“You can feel Entire Convoy” Ashraf, Iraq . it ..You can see it ..It’s a general sinking Hit by IEDs, RPGs and hand grenades, feeling that things are not going to go The selfless actions of Sgt ..James the vehicles, which were transporting sup- right ..You feel it in your gut .” Witkowski, a member of the 729th plies to Forward Operating Base Susie Transportation Company, based in Fresno, Fetty’s gut feeling had been honed after near Kirkuk, was in danger of stalling, Calif ., directly saved the lives of three serving more than 10 months in Khost ..He endangering the lives of some 100 Soldiers immediately ordered the disguised doctor

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down onto the ground ..Instead, the man grabbed the barrel of Fetty’s rifle . sgt. Nicholas Horn and Spec. “I was pretty sure he had a [suicide] vest on under his lab coat,” he said ..“I knew that if he grabbed hold of me or my armor, Bethany Horn Depend on I was toast ..I wouldn’t be able to stop him from detonating himself .” Each Other Fetty maneuvered the man around a corner and away from the crowd at the College student Bethany Gunter wanted hospital while keeping his eyes locked on to challenge herself, mentally and physi- the would-be attacker’s . cally, so she joined the Army Reserve; the educational assistance would help defray “The last thing I wanted him to do was college expenses . lose focus on me, because he didn’t want to attack me,” he said ..“The governor of In her Little Rock, Ark ..unit she not the province was there, and he was the only found the challenge she sought, she primary target ..Suicide bombers rarely also found a soul mate, Nicholas Horn .. attack Americans ..They want government After taking a few college courses and officials ..So I kept his focus on me .” working for several years in the plumbing business, he was also ready for a change .. Courtesy Photo Fetty gained some distance by hitting Spec. Bethany Horn and Sgt. Nicholas He dreamed of being a Soldier and the Horn in Mosul, Iraq. the terrorist with the butt of his weapon thought of becoming a husband never and.firing warning shots into the ground .. entered his mind, until he met Beth .. to survive and to try to make a difference When the man advanced again, Fetty shot The two Soldiers married shortly before in Iraq .” Nicholas said the deployment him in the lower leg and kneecap . deploying together to Mosul, Iraq, where reinforced to him the fact that marriage is “He stood back up, even though I they served with the 431st Civil Affairs a team effort, especially in a combat zone . Battalion . gave him a crippling wound,” Fetty said .. “We worked together 24 hours a day, “He got back up and tried to come at me There, Spec ..Bethany Horn worked in seven days a week ..We saw each other again .” supply, but was trained to drive a 17,000 react when mortars hit and we grew to Fetty shot him again, and as the terror- pound up-armored Humvee and to serve depend on each other; to stay alive as we ist lay on the ground, Fetty saw him reach as the swiveling turret gunner behind build our lives together ..She’s the only into his lab coat . a belt-fed machine gun ..Sgt ..Nicholas battle buddy I’ll ever need .” Horn was the NCO in charge ..During his “I knew what his intent was and I aban- They both believe the skills they’ve one-year deployment, he was awarded a doned all hopes of killing the guy before learned in the Army Reserve will help Bronze Star for saving the life of a civil- he would explode,” Fetty said . them be better leaders in their commu- ian injured in a mortar attack . nity as they interact with customers and Fetty remembers taking three steps and Bethany said their joint deployment classmates and to improve their readi- diving toward the ground as the terrorist forced them to mature, “We couldn’t be ness and training with their unit in the detonated his bomb ..For his selfless action, kids anymore, our day-to-day objective was Army Reserve .. Fetty became the.first Army Reserve Soldier to earn the Silver Star for service in Afghanistan ..He also received a Purple Heart after receiving shrapnel wounds to AR Soldier Missing or Captured his face, leg and ankle . This yellow ribbon Sgt. Ahmed K. Altaie symbolizes our commit- Fetty, who now serves with the 339th ment to honoring those Altaie, a 41-year-old Medical Corps Hospital in Coraopolis, Pa ., of our Army Reserve Iraqi-born resident of recalls that during the struggle, he realized Soldiers who have Ann Arbor, Mich., was snatched off the street he might not survive the ordeal . fallen, those who are while he was visiting his “You resign yourself pretty quick,” he SUPPORT missing and those who Iraqi wife in Baghdad said later ..“You just stop thinking at that OUR TROOPS are serving around the on Oct. 23. 2006. U.S. globe ..It will appear on point about yourself ..It was either going forces have conducted each issue until they all raids in portions of Sadr to be me or 20 other people back there ..I come home . City searching for Altaie, don’t really believe in valor that much ..I U.S. Army Photo who worked as a trans- think there are plenty of people over there lator. The U.S. government has offered a $50,000 reward who are just as brave as I am .” for information leading to his recovery.

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“America Supports you” Postal Service Discount

By Samantha L. Quigley for shipping ..However, when the 12-by-12- The boxes bearing the “America American Forces Press Service by-5 .5-inch box is sent to an AFO or FPO Supports You” logo are available only ASHINGTON — Military families have address, a $2 discount applies, dropping online or at select post offices near mili- Wlong used the U .S ..Postal Service’s the cost to $10 .95 . tary bases ..All flat-rate boxes are available flat-rate shipping boxes to send care Some of the new boxes carry the for international shipping, though the packages around the globe ..A price break America Supports You logo ..America discount applies only to the large flat-rate began March 3, 2008 . Supports You is a Defense Department box, and only if it’s being shipped to an APO or FPO address .. The discount applies only to the new program connecting citizens and com- “Priority Mail Large Flat-Rate Box,” panies with service members and their which normally carries a $12 .95 price tag families serving at home and abroad .

“The mail must go through”

Capt. Anthony John Five of the 10 Soldier 271st Human Resources (Postal) Detachment, Spec. Richard Velasquez, Spec. Jose Hernandez, Sgt. Quecha Perez, Staff Sgt. Robert Ortiz, NCOIC, and Sgt. Angel Morales wasted no time sorting the mail keeping with the time honored tradition”the mail must go through.”

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Military Spouse Educational and Career Opportunities Expanded he Departments of Defense and Labor said in a joint statement ..According to The MSCAI would help by offering Ton Nov ..14, 2007 announced a joint the agencies, military spouses suffer an up to $6,000 in assistance to help spouses three-year pilot project to expand edu- unemployment rate that is three times that overcome some of these educational and cational and career opportunities for of their civilian counterparts, and nearly credentialing barriers ..Military spouses military spouses . 77 percent of them report that they want may apply at One-Stop Career Centers on or need to work ..In addition, the frequent or near Voluntary Education Centers at The Military Spouse Career moves required by the military often make the participating installations ..The two Advancement Initiative (MSCAI) will be it difficult or cost-prohibitive for spouses departments are jointly approving $35 .2 offered at 18 sites in eight states with large to establish long-term careers or meet state million over three years to fund the effort .. military populations, the departments credentialing and licensing requirements . To see more, go to www.MilSpouse.org ..

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Army Provides improved online support to community hat is it? MyArmyLifeToo.com Civilians can find out how to support the Why is this important to the Army? Wserves as a “one-stop” knowledge Army community and the mission . Technology is a vital tool for Families center where Family members, Soldiers, of deployed Soldiers ..Multiple deploy MyArmyLifeToo also helps Soldiers - leaders and Civilians can connect to their and their Families communicate with ments are inevitable and not everyone Army community and each other ..With each other in the online Army Family has access to a local Family Readiness both public and secure pages, anyone can Community with easy-to-use, interactive Group ..Geographically dispersed Soldiers access to news, information and resources tools such as the photo gallery, forum, chat and their Families often feel disconnected relevant to Army life . and download center . from the rest of the Army . MyArmyLifeToo helps build a sense of community through its various information sharing tools ..It provides links to other web-based tools including the Army Virtual Family Readiness Groups, MilitaryOneSource, the Army Integrated Family Support Network and other FMWRC-spon- sored sites providing access to the same comforts, assurances and sense of community found on a military installation . . MyArmyLifeToo is a single access point available to anyone, anywhere — no firewall, no sponsorship or common access card requirement — making it easy to use and accessible to anyone who has interest in Army life or a personal connection to a Soldier ..

What has the Army done? By incorporating information about all Family Programs into one Web site, the Army By incorporating information provides Soldiers and their Families a primary place to access information about all Family Programs into about Army life ..With specialized sec- tions developed for active duty, guard or one Web site, the Army provides reserve Soldiers or Family members, staff members, or Civilians, MyArmyLifeToo. com provides accurate information about Soldiers and their Families what military members or spouses can expect in their day-to day-lives and tools a primary place to access and tips for navigating their life as a spouse or Soldier . information about Army life. Through MyArmyLifeToo, Soldiers and Family members can learn about support programs in plain language ..

Spring 2008 H 39 My Army Reserve Life Army Reserve Joins in All-AmericaN Bowl .S ..Army Soldiers and high school Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom, athletic directors and principals ..This Usenior football players from around as well as a recipient of a Bronze Star or important opportunity allowed the Army the country participated in the Army higher military award . to communicate the important tie between All-American Bowl, all-star football Players were selected by a committee athletes and Soldiers — their strength, game held January 5, at the Alamo Dome of national recruiting experts and placed dedication, teamwork and values . in San Antonio, Texas ..Among the 90 on the East or West team ..During this This tie is strengthened by the Army Army Soldiers selected to participate in year’s player selection tour, Army repre- Reserve’s unique link to communities this year’s event were 33 Army Reserve sentatives, including local Army Reserve across the nation ..Chief Warrant Officer Soldiers ..Each “Soldier Hero” selected is recruiters, presented a game day jersey 2 Randy Growall, one of the 33 Army a veteran of either Operation Enduring before the player’s peers, parents, coaches, Reserve Soldier Heroes, is an example

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of that link ..In addition to his service freedom and opportunities I wouldn’t have Chief, Army Reserve ..“Their military in the 910th Quartermaster Company in received in my country of birth,” said Sgt .. service has earned them the respect of the Ardmore, Ark, Growall serves as the head 1st Class Elsa Cardoza, an Army Reserve nation and the privilege to serve as Soldier coach for an Ardmore high school foot- Soldier Hero and Mexican-American who Heroes ..I am sure these high school football team . serves in the Retention Office of the 63rd ball players will find no better mentors Regional Readiness Command ..“I love this “As a high school football coach, I and role models when it comes to Army country and what it has offered to me, my have many young eyes on me everyday ..I Values and commitment to the team .” children, and future generations to come .” must display character and morals at all Lt ..Gen ..Stultz and Command Sgt .. times,” said Growall ..“As a leader of young Soldier Heroes like Growall and Maj ..Leon Caffie joined Army Reserve Soldiers I must also set the example every- Cardoza are the strength of the nation - Soldiers at several events during the day, all day, on how a professional Soldier the ultimate instrument of national resolve week, including an awards banquet acts, deals with adversity, sets goals, and - and represent the hundreds of thousands hosted by the Secretary of the Army Pete stays hooked up until the job is done ”. of Soldiers currently serving around the Geren on January 4 . world ..During the All-American Bowl This year’s Army Reserve Soldier Army Reserve units and Soldiers week, Soldier Heroes and football players Heroes represented a cross-section of played other significant roles in the event were paired and participated in a series of America ..A biography of each is available off the field ..More than 20 Soldiers show- events together, illustrating their shared at www.amy.mil/allamericanbowl/2008/ cased their units’ equipment and skills in ideals of leadership, courage and strength bios.html ..They included a diversity of the Army Strong Zone outside the Alamo on and off the field ..In addition, Soldiers backgrounds and military and civilian job Dome on January 4 and 5 ..In addition, were honored during pre-game activities skills - demonstrating the integral role Army Reserve Soldiers participated as for their commitment and service . they play in ensuring the success of the key staff in the planning and execution. Army and the nation . “I am very proud of the Army Reserve of this event .. Soldiers selected for the 2008 Army All- “I have been blessed to live in a country American Bowl,” said Lt ..Gen ..Jack Stultz, that has offered me and my children

Maj. Hillary Luton 34 of the 91 Soldiers selected for the Army All-American bowl were Army Reserve Soldiers.

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U.S. Army Reserve Heroes Meet a few of the Army Reserve Soldier-Heroes from Operations Iraqi Freedom, Noble Eagle, and Enduring Freedom. The Soldiers below were honored during the Army All-American Bowl on January 5, 2007 in San Antonio, TX.

Michael Hughes Gwendolyn Harman Andrew Jacob Cole VIRGINIA CABALLERO Rank Specialist Rank Staff Sergeant Rank Staff Sergeant Rank Sergeant Unit Assigned B Co 325 MI BN Unit Assigned 3/319TH REGT Unit Assigned B Co 328th Unit Assigned 413th Civil Affairs Combat Support Hospital Battalion Unit Location Bronx, N .Y . (LOG SPT) Unit Location Salt Lake. Unit Location Lubbock, Texas Command/Installation MIRC Unit Location Lancaster, Pa . City, Utah Command/Installation. Title/Position Human Command/Installation 3/319TH Command/Installation. 350th Civil Affairs Command, Intelligence Collector REGT (LOG SPT) 2nd Medical Brigade/ Stephen Pensacola, Fla . Civilian Occupation Title/Position Sr ..Truck Driver A Douglas Armed Forces Title/Position Headquarters Co .. Legal Assistant Civilian Occupation. Reserve Center (SADAFRC) Training NCO Correctional Officer Number of Years of Service 10 Title/Position Emergency Room Civilian Occupation Customer Number of Deployments 2 Number of Years of Service 13 NCOIC/Platoon Sergeant Service Representative Location/Dates of Deployments Number of Deployments 1 Civilian Occupation Civil Service Number of Years of Service 6 .5 1 Kuwait (Dec 2001 – May 2002). Location/Dates of Deployments Number of Years of Service. Number of Deployments 1 2 Iraq (April 2003 – March 2004) Iraq, 2003 – 2004 7 Years Active. Location/Dates of Deployments. 3 Years Reserve Unit of Most Recent Deployment Unit of Most Recent Deployment Iraq, 2003 – 2004 C Co 104th MI BN, 3 BCT 4ID Iraq, 2003 – 2004 Number of Deployments 1 Unit of Most Recent Deployment Awards Received for OIF/OEF Awards Received for OIF/OEF Location/Dates of Deployments 413th CA BN & 431st CA BN Iraq, Dec 2004 – Jun 2006 Service Purple Heart, Army Service Purple Heart, Army Awards Received for OIF/OEF Commendation Medal, Armed Commendation medal Unit of Most Recent Deployment Service Purple Heart, Army Forces Expeditionary Medal, Hometown Bessemer, Pa . 401st Civil Affairs Bn Commendation Medal, Global War on Terrorism Awards Received for OIF/OEF National Defense Service Family Mother, Katherine Expeditionary and Service Service Bronze Star, 2xAAM Medal, Armed Forces Harman; Father, Wendell Medals, Iraq Campaign Medal Expeditionary Medal, Iraqi Harman Hometown Glendale, Ariz . Hometown New York, N Y. . Campaign Medal, Global War Family Wife, Dawn Cole; What is the most interesting thing on Terrorism Expeditionary Family Wife, Theresa; five-year- Daughters, Angelica,. about your time in Iraq/Afghanistan? Medal, Armed Forces Service old Daughter, Emily Celeste, Gracie “Seeing how lucky we are Medal, Global War on Why did you answer as Americans to have the Do you have a family tradition Terrorism Service Medal of military service? the “Call to Duty?” freedom, education oppor- Hometown Abernathy, Texas “Both of my Grandfathers “I feel that it is my duty as an tunities, and superior living How has your Army service made served in WWII ..(One Navy, American to answer the call of conditions .” you Army Strong? “I fear nothing One Marines)” our country no matter what it is .” but fear itself .”

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Army Reserve Kicks-Off 100th Anniversary 100 Army Reserve Soldiers Re-Enlist in Iraq, Commemorating a Century of Service and Sacrifice

n recognition of the Army Reserve’s their civilian employers, families and com- On April 23, 1908, Congress created the I100th Anniversary, a special centen- munities to serve their country .” Medical Reserve Corps, later renamed the Army Reserve, from a group of 160 doctors nial re-enlistment ceremony of 100 Army Almost 22,000 Army Reserve Soldiers formed to provide the nation with a res Reserve Soldiers was held at the Al Faw are mobilized today, including more - Palace in Baghdad, Iraq ..The event kicked- than 15,000 supporting Operation Iraqi ervoir of trained medical officers in times off the Army Reserve’s 100th Anniversary Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom of war ..Over the past century, the Army commemoration, which takes place and more than 7,000 deployed in support Reserve has significantly expanded upon throughout 2008 . of homeland defense . this successful model that leverages civilian skills and patriotism . “Today’s ceremony allowed us to thank “After 100 years, the Army Reserve and honor 100 Army Reserve Soldiers who has never played a more vital role in the Today’s Army Reserve includes Soldiers are reenlisting while serving in a theater world’s greatest Army,” said Stultz ..“The who are professionals in a multitude of war,” said Lt ..Gen ..Jack C ..Stultz, Army Reserve Soldier brings important of civilian career fields ..Army train- Chief, Army Reserve and Commanding civilian skill sets into our mission in Iraq, ing instills values and leadership that General, Army Reserve Command ..“These make them a more valuable and trusted ranging from medical support, transporta- brave men and women are America’s true employee ..Conversely, their civilian train tion, engineering, civilian affairs, and a - Warrior-Citizens, taking time away from multitude of other critical functions .” ing and job skills enhance the capability of today’s Army . Army Reserve Staff Sgt ..Peter. Vaughan was among the 100 Army Reserve Soldiers who re-enlisted in Baghdad ..Vaughn works as a broadcast technologist in the Army Reserve and owns his own computer consulting company in his hometown of Palatine, Ill ..“It is momentous to be in Iraq for the 100th Anniversary,” says Vaughan, who is on his second overseas deployment with the Army Reserve ..“I get to bring my civilian skills and background into our efforts in Iraq .” Army Reserve Sgt ..Jonathan Britt, who also re-enlisted today, is serving in Iraq as a combat medic ..He provides health care and combat medicine at all levels to both U .S ..Soldiers and enemy combat- ants, and will be pursuing a new career in nursing, based on his Army Reserve training, when he returns to the U .S .. The Army Reserve provides more than two-thirds of the Army’s medical groups and brigades . For more information about the Army Reserve and its 100th Anniversary, please visit the Army Reserve Web site at www.

Master Sgt. Anthony Martinez armyreserve.army.mil .. Army Reserve Command Sergeant Major Leon E. Caffie, left, presents a football signed by the New England Patriots football team to Sgt. Eric Sturm, one of the 100 Army Reserve Soldiers who re-enlisted in Baghdad. Sgt. Sturm is assigned to the 841st Engineer Battalion (Combat) based in Aurora, Ill.

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M y A r m y R e s e r v e L i f e : “ w h y I ’ m st a y i n g ”

Re-enlisting Army Reserve Soldier Profiles n January 18th, 2008, 100 Army Reserve Soldiers reaffirmed their commitment to serving their country by participating in a centen- Onial re-enlistment ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq ..These 100 Soldiers, like so many others, are meeting the challenges of today’s Global War on Terror, while supporting various missions at home and around the globe ..In its 100th year, the Army Reserve celebrates its proud history and honors the Soldiers who make is possible ..Below are just a few of their stories .

Staff Sgt. Casey Ray Bargar Sgt. Jonathan Britt Sgt. Corey Dewayne Smith Age 28 Age 25 Age 26

Deployment Deployment Deployment Bargar is stationed in Camp Anaconda, a Britt is serving in Iraq as a combat medic .. Smith is currently serving at Camp large logistical base in Northern Iraq . He provides health care and combat medi- Cropper in Iraq . cine at all levels to both U .S ..Soldiers and Responsibilities enemy Soldiers . Responsibilities During this deployment — Bargar’s third Smith works as a paralegal specialist, — he works in the Joint Operations Center Home Life assisting the Staff Judge Advocate in. (JOC), tracking all movements outside the Britt is from Hope Mills, NC and graduated advising high ranking commanders . wire and reporting on any significant acts from North Carolina State University with a or mass casualties . degree in agriculture business management . Home Life Smith is married to Kimberly Smith who Home Life Civilian occupation resides in his hometown of Grifton, NC .. Bargar’s hometown is Titusville, PA ..His Before his deployment to Iraq, Britt His brother is a Staff Sgt ..in the Army who home station is Pittsburgh, PA . worked at UPS, for his family’s landscap- is also deployed in Iraq . ing business and as a substitute teacher in Civilian occupation NC ..Through his experience in the Army Civilian occupation At home, Bargar does civilian work for Reserve as a combat medic, he has decided In his civilian life, Smith is a sales and the Department of Defense on military to pursue nursing school when he returns marketing manager, but now sees himself weapons and equipment ..He is re-enlist- to the U .S . pursuing law when he returns to the U .S . ing so that he may continue to hold this position . Thoughts on Serving in the Army Reserve Thoughts on Serving in the Army Reserve Britt is proud to be a part of the Army Smith says that he is “not done being an Thoughts on Serving in the Army Reserve Reserve’s 100th Anniversary kick-off Army Reserve Soldier ..The Army Reserve “It gives me pride to say I serve those who ceremony ..To him, it means “commit- is a great family to be a part of and when it’s cannot fight themselves .” ment, determination, fortitude and all said and done — I know I contributed ..I multiple generations of Soldiers know I made this (world) a better place .” serving their time for our country .”

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Staff Sgt. Endya Farris Staff Sgt. Peter Vaughan Staff Sgt. Bernard Villagomez Age 35 Age 25 Age 44 deployment Deployment Deployment Farris has been in the Army Reserve for 14 Vaughan is on his first deployment to Iraq, Villagomez is on his first deployment to years and is currently stationed at Camp and his second deployment overall . Iraq . Victory in Iraq . Responsibilities Responsibilities Responsibilities He works as a broadcast technologist He works as a Supply Sgt ..in the Army Farris works as a human resource spe- in the Army Reserve, and has extensive Reserve . cialist in the Army Reserve, where she experience developing video products for Home Life manages the administrative tasks for PSYOP . Villagomez was born and raised in the Soldiers, including their finances, awards, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana promotions and/or leave . Home Life Vaughan’s hometown is Palatine, IL ..He Islands, which was freed by the United Home Life is close to completing his degree in elec- States during World War II . In her civilian life, Farris is a paralegal at trical engineering at Northern Illinois Civilian occupation Heath W ..Williams, LLC in her home- University, and is a member of the Society At home, Villagomez is a fulltime student town of Atlanta, GA . of Broadcast Engineers . at Portland State University pursuing a Thoughts on Serving in the Army Reserve Civilian occupation degree in urban development and city When asked about her experience in the At home, Vaughan owns his own computer planning . Army Reserve, Farris notes that “it has consulting company . Thoughts on Serving in the Army Reserve enhanced both my professional and per- The gratitude he feels toward the U S. .. sonal life — I have met and learned from Thoughts on Serving in the Army Reserve has inspired him to want to give back by so many people with various experiences ”. Vaughn notes that it is “momentous to be in Iraq for the anniversary,” and that he is fighting to protect the many freedoms “proud to be serving” his country again . Americans enjoy ..“I enjoy being an Army Reserve Soldier .”

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AR-RAP Top Performers Pfc. Jason Cook earns $6K as Army Reserve Recruiter Assistants

AST POINT, Ga. — Being in the right Eplace at the right time has brought recognition to Pfc ..Jason Cook, a human resource specialist with the 335th Signal Command, East Point, Ga ..and checks for a total of $6,000 . Cook earned the bonus money for taking advantage of the Army Reserve Recruiter Assistance Program (AR-RAP) and recognition as one of the top recruiter assistants in his command . The Command Retention Office encour- aged Cook to sign up for AR-RAP ..“We thought that he would be an excellent can- Photo Courtesy: 335th Signal Command Pfc. Jason Cook is presented with a check for $4,000 for his AR-RAP recruiting efforts. didate,” says Sgt ..1st Class Corey Daniels, career counselor with the 335th ..“He is an up and coming hip hop artist who meets a REGION 1 REGION 10 lot of young people in his sphere of influ- #1 Top RA: Kevin Moreira. #1 Top RA: Robert Tackett. ence ..What a great opportunity to show Number of Accessions: 3. Number of Accessions: 2. that you can serve your country and follow Number of Future Soldiers: 6. Total Number of Future Soldiers: 2. your dreams ”. City, State: Raynham, Massachusetts. City, State: Columbus, OH. Unit: WZPEA1. Unit: WQ0LA2. Since signing up for AR-RAP, Cook Amount PAID: $4,000 Amount PAID: $4,000 talked to two of his friends and convinced them to join the Army Reserve ..Cook *REGION: 4 REGION 11 received a total of $4,000 for his recruiting #1 Top RA: Austin Lawson. #1 Top RA: Efrain Hudnell. efforts . Number of Accessions: 3. Number of Accessions: 3. Cook said it was so easy ..“I was in the Number of Future Soldiers: 3. Number of Future Soldiers: 5. recording studio and told everybody, City, State: Huntsville, Tennessee. City, State: Las Cruces, New Mexico. Okay, we need to rap this up ..I have to get UNIT: WRKHA0. Unit: WQ1FAA. back to Atlanta for “drill” and then my Amount PAID: $6,000 Amount PAID: $3,000 buddies asked me, “You in the Army?” “I replied yes, and I can get you in too ”. REGION 8 REGION 12 Cook later made another $2,000 bonus #1 Top RA: Kurt Schueller. #1 Top RA: Ernest Gonzales. for a total of $6,000 . Number of Accessions: 3. Number of Accessions: 14. Total Number of Future Soldiers: 6. Number of Future Soldiers: 37. “I encourage everyone who has not yet City, State: Bonduel, Wisconsin. City, State: San Antonio, TX. signed up and completed their online AR- Unit: W7ZPC3. Unit: W8X5AA. RAP recruiting training to do so at www. Amount PAID: $3,000 Amount PAID: $14,000 AR-RAP.com,” said Daniels .. Editor’s note: the Public Affairs Office, REGION 9 335th Signal Command provided information #1 Top RA: Mary Henry. for this story. Number of Accessions: 4. Total Number of Future Soldiers: 9. City, State: Poplar Bluff, MO. Unit: WQ9AAA. Amount PAID: $4,000

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Army Reserve Army Reserve Wins Shooter Wins President’s Trophy NRA Championship By MAJ Dave Cloft By MAJ Dave Cloft Army Reserve Shooting Team PAO Army Reserve Service Rifle After over ten hours of grueling compe- Team PAO tition and with temperatures over ninety When the smoke cleared degrees, Army Reserve SGT Kris Friend, a the firing line at Camp Perry, Combat Medic from Chesire, Conn ..success- Ohio, the U .S ..Army Reserve fully dominated the 1,258 other competitors successfully edged out the U .S .. to win the highly coveted President’s Trophy Army Marksmanship Unit and at the 2007 National Trophy Rifle Matches, U .S ..Marine Corps Rifle Team Camp Perry, Ohio ..It’s been 20 years since to secure the National Service an Army Reserve shooter has won the Rifle Team Championship ..The President’s Rifle Match, SGT Lowell D .. last time the Army Reserve SGT Chris Gervasio Johnson won the match in 1987 . Champion USAR Service Rifle Team (left to right): Command Sgt. Maj. Neal won this prestigious champion- Dickey, Team Coach, 1st Sgt. Jack Pardy, Maj. Dave Cloft, Sgt. Kris Friend, Pfc. The President’s Rifle Match was first ship was in 1985 ..Six members C.J. Atkins, Master Sgt. Mark Bearnson, Team Captain. fired as a military rifle match in 1894 and of the Army Reserve utilized has become one of the most important of Reserve MG William Sutton ..MG Sutton their preeminent marksmanship abilities all National Match events ..The winner of had previously earned his Distinguished to earn the National Championship ..Firing the President’s Match receives a congratula- Rifleman Badge and strongly believed members consisted of MAJ Dave Cloft, tory letter from the President of the United in marksmanship ..During World War SFC Jack Pardy, SGT Kris Friend and States, the President’s Rifle Trophy and II he deployed cooks, supply person- PFC C .J Atkins, Coach SGM Neal Dickey a presentation M1 Garand rifle ..In 1904, nel, and truck drivers to defend his unit .. and Captain, MSG Mark Bearnson . Theodore Roosevelt began the tradition of He learned that it was important for all providing a letter of congratulations to the The National Rifle Association Soldiers to know how to shoot well ..Today winner and most U ..S ..Presidents since have Highpower Rifle Championships are held the AR Shooting Team is composed of honored this practice, including Presidents annually at Camp Perry, Ohio; a National X shooters and three teams; service rifle, Clinton and Bush . Guard training facility on the shores of combat and pistol ..The mission of the Lake Erie ..Each shooter fires a total of AR Shooting team is to assist in small The President’s Rifle Match consists of 50 records shots, without sighters ..The arms marksmanship training, represent 30 records shots, and is fired without the known distance course of fire consists of the Army Reserve and win National and aid of sighting shots ..Each competitor fires 10 shots slow fire in the standing position Interservice Competitions . 10 shots slowfire standing at 200 yards, 10 at 200 yards, 10 shots rapid fire sitting at shots rapid-fire prone at 300 yards, and 10 All members of the US Army Reserve 200 yards, 10 shots rapid fire prone at 300 shots slowfire prone at 600 yards ..The top Shooting Team are Soldiers first, and train yards and 20 shots slow fire prone at 600 20 competitors from the day are required to and compete when their normal Army yards ..Only U .S ..military issued or the return to compete in a shoot-off event ..These Reserve duties allow ..Soldiers interested in civilian equivalent service rifles with iron additional 10 shots are fired at 600 yards are becoming a member of the Army Reserve sights are allowed for the competition ..All added to the shooters pre- Shooting Team should gain competitive members of the Army Reserve shooting vious score to determine shooting experience and attend the All- team fired M16A2 or AR15 service rifles . the match winner . Army Rifle and Pistol Championships The NRA National Service Rifle at Fort Benning, GA ..Team tryouts are The 100 top-scoring mili- Champions are awarded individual plaques conducted annually in the spring, and tary and civilian shooters in with a picture of the Enlisted Men’s new members are continuously selected the President’s Pistol and National Trophy ..The Enlisted Men’s from the Army Reserve to compete President’s Rifle competition Team Trophy is a 44-inch-high bronze at the Interservice Championships at are authorized to perma- statuette of a Marine enlisted man ..It was Quantico, Virginia as well as the National nently wear the President’s purchased by the voluntary contributions Championships at Camp Perry, Ohio ..To Hundred Tab ..It’s the largest of the enlisted men of the Marine Corps obtain more information about the Army tab in the U S. ..Army ..It also and presented to the NRA in 1910 . Reserve Shooting Team email Mr ..Helmut ranks first in order of senior- The Army Reserve Shooting Team Hein, Marksmanship Coordinator, USARC ity to the Special Forces, G7 at helmut hein@us. army. mil. .. Ranger and Sapper tabs . Lt. Cmdr. (ret) Web Wright was created in 1969 by The Chief, Army SGT Kris Friend

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USARC Soldier-Chefs sharpen their skills at culinary competition Team shows they can compete with the Army’s best

By Timothy L. Hale “Through the challenges we’ve shown Williams, E Co ., 159th Aviation Brigade; Army Reserve Public Affairs our excellence in different ways ..Mainly Fort Eustis, Va ..Spec ..Williams’ prize- ORT LEE, Va. – The old saying goes, “If it’s the team members themselves who winning appetizers consisted of every Fyou can’t stand the heat, get out of the have shown their abilities to succeed in possible seafood and vegetable combina- kitchen ”. this culinary show,” said team manager, tion to tantalize the taste buds . CW3 Marc Morrell . The 12 members of the U .S ..Army “The judge liked the fact that my appe- Reserve Command culinary arts team did Looking like proud Olympic athletes, tizers looked very edible ..He liked the more than stand the heat, they excelled the team members strutted across the overall difficulty level exhibited,” said in a number of categories during the U .S .. awards stage in Lewi Auditorium at Williams ..“He also reminded me how Army Culinary Arts Competition held at Mifflin Hall bearing the fruits of their paying attention to little details can help Fort Lee, Va ., March 3 – 14, 2008 . labor ..With their medals clinking and the overall dining experience .” clanking together, USARC team members Spec ..Williams entered the Army in In all, the team garnered one gold, three cheered them on from their seats . silver and 17 bronze medals spanning 16 2002 and completed food service opera- different categories ..In addition, the team Winning a blue ribbon and gold medal tions training in 2003 ..Since that time, earned six honorable mentions . in hot appetizers was Spec ..Courtney he didn’t have much of an opportunity to hone his culinary skills . “I performed in the Transportation Express, an ensemble singing group based at Fort Eustis ..After completing four years there, I left the active Army in 2006 and joined the Reserve . When he is not wearing the uniform, Spec ..Williams is a chef at the Williamsburg Marriott at King’s Mill just down the road from Fort Eustis . This is the first year that Spec ..Williams has entered the Army-wide culinary competition ..He hopes that the skills he learns and exhibits here will lead to bigger and better opportunities with the Army Reserve, to include being an aide for a general officer . “The best part apart from the. competition is learning,” he said ..“I’ll. be able to show my Marriott co-workers that it’s about the details ..It’s better to Timothy L. Hale have a perfect plate late, than a terrible Sgt. Joseph Parker, left, and Spec. Paul Harmon, plate up the main entree’ during the Nutritional Hot Food Challenge at the U.S. Army Culinary Arts Competition at Fort Lee, Va. Spec. Courtney Williams is shown at right as he waits to take the finished plates plate early .” to the judges.

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• Bronze Medal — Baron H ..Galand • Bronze Medal — Contemporary cat- Culinary Knowledge Bowl egory, game hen, chicken or duck

• Honorable Mention — Six different Spec. Melinda Hodgin: individual hot or cold desserts, all shown cold • Bronze Medal — Baron H ..Galand Culinary Knowledge Bowl Sgt. Holly Dunn: • Bronze Medal — Student Team Skills • Silver Medal — Baron H ..Galand Culinary Knowledge Bowl Sgt. 1st Class James Duff: • Bronze Medal — Cake decoration • Bronze Medal — UGR-A Field Cooking Competition • Bronze Medal — Student Team Skills • Honorable Mention — One cold hors d’ • Bronze Medal — One buffet platter of oeuvres selection, with a minimum of fancy cookies, chocolates, or petit fours eight varieties • Honorable Mention — Novelty cake Spec. Nathan Goldsmith: • Honorable Mention — Centerpiece in tallow • Bronze Medal — Student Team Skills • Honorable Mention — Baron H ..Galand Staff Sgt. Jeffrey McLaughlin: Culinary Knowledge Bowl

Timothy L. Hale • Bronze Medal — Cold platter of poultry Sgt. Eric Harris: Spec. Courtney Williams displays one of his hot appetizers • Bronze Medal — UGR-A Field Cooking which earned him a gold medal during the U.S. Army Culinary • Honorable Mention — Two restaurant Arts Competition at Fort Lee, Va. This was the first time Spec. Competition style platters Williams had ever competed in the prestigious competition in his six year military career. TOTAL MEDAL COUNT BY TEAM MEMBERS

Spec. Courtney Williams: • Gold Medal — Six different hot appe- tizer plates, presented cold • Bronze Medal — UGR-A Field. Cooking Competition

Sgt. Joseph Parker: • Silver Medal — Nutritional Hot Food Challenge • Bronze Medal — Army Chef of the Year • Bronze Medal — UGR-A Field Cooking Competition • Bronze Medal — Cold buffet platter of meat, beef, veal, lamb or pork

Spec. Paul Harmon: • Silver Medal — Nutritional Hot Food Challenge • Bronze Medal — Junior Chef of the Year • Bronze Medal — Student Team Skills Timothy L. Hale The 2008 U.S. Army Reserve Culinary Arts team shows off their heavy metal after winning gold, silver and bronze medals during the U.S. Army Culinary Arts Competition at Fort Lee, Va.

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Army Reserve Rabbi Gives Opening Prayer at White House By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell members of the president’s staff ..I offered people request reparations for the assets Special to Jewish News my prayer, and, at the conclusion of of refugees from Israel, so there are many the meeting, presented the president Jewish refugees from Muslim countries Here’s a phone message that’s guaran- with a copy of the prayer book for U .S .. who may be entitled to compensation for teed to get a return call: “This is (Ploni) military service members ..I highlighted their losses . calling from the White House Chief of the passages containing the prayers for Staff’s office ..Please call back when you In the evening, my mother and I Hanukkah, the prayer for travel and the have a moment .” attended the White House Hanukkah prayer for our country . party ..The administration takes pride in It was a month or so ago that I received I gave him a folder with texts prepared the fact that President and Laura Bush such a call, setting into motion a whirl- by the American Jewish World Service are the first residents to open the White wind of activity . that connect the message of Hanukkah House to the Jewish community for a As the fortuitous events unfolded, a with the genocide in Darfur, the classic Hanukkah celebration . member of the president’s staff had read story of Hanukkah with President George As we moved forward to have our photo something I had written and decided that Washington at Valley Forge, and the taken with the president and Mrs ..Bush, I would be the right person to offer the words of the prayer I had written for the he thanked me again for my prayer and opening prayer at the president’s meeting occasion . for the siddur ..He indicated that he would with a small group of Jewish leaders in At the conclusion of the meeting, we review the siddur the next day . honor of Hanukkah . were ushered into the Oval Office, where It was a surreal experience to wander “I think,” he said, “that the presi- the president offered a historical perspec- through the beautiful and historic rooms, dent would enjoy meeting you .” And, tive on the office and posed for a photo enjoying fabulous kosher food and lis- if I wished, I could “stick around” for with each of us ..He was gracious and tening to the Marine Corps Band play the White House Hanukkah party that witty ..As I evening . approached Although the meeting was to be kept his desk, he under wraps until after it transpired, I raised his decided that my command chaplain at U .S .. eyebrows Army North needed to know that I would and said, be meeting with the commander-in-chief, “Colonel!” in uniform ..And, of course, which uniform to which was a big question in my mind . I replied, “Yes, sir .” He After conferring with the protocol office, thanked me he informed me that I was to wear a Dress for my service Blue uniform during the day and a Mess in Iraq, and Dress uniform in the evening ..In 29 years promised to of service, I had never had a reason to White House photo by Shealah Craighead look at the Rabbi Bonnie Koppell, far right, attends a Dec. 10 Hanukkah reception at the White House with acquire the latter ..Ensuring that it was set siddur . President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush. At left is Koppell’s mother, Sandy Koppell. up just right required a significant amount of e-mail and phone conversation . There were at least two significant moments in our traditional Jewish music ..A special high- Each year, President Bush convenes a conversation ..The president was interested light was a visit with my former teacher meeting of Jewish religious leaders prior to learn that there are 25,000 Jews still Dennis Prager . to the White House Hanukkah party ..This in Iran and he pledged to work for their year, he invited individuals who could Since I was in my “Mess Dress release . contrast their own experience living under uniform,” many people inquired about my oppressive regimes with the religious Also, the president acknowledged that service record and asked to take photos freedom we enjoy in the United States of the Jewish community has reached out to with me ..Truly an unforgettable experi- America . and absorbed refugees who were forced ence .. to flee Muslim countries ..He appreciated A dozen or so of us gathered in the Editor’s note: Reprinted in part with per- our perspective that, as the Palestinian Roosevelt Room, along with selected mission from the Jewish News.

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Army Reserve gets first AGR Catholic chaplain By Marc McCormick out that thing that was missing was God El Morro Himself because I never considered that as Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico an issue in my life,” he said . ORT BUCHANAN, Puerto Rico — The Becoming an Army chaplain became Fassignment of Capt ..Jésus Manuel the goal of Muñoz’s life ..With help from Muñoz to Fort Buchanan marks a his company first sergeant and his com- milestone in the Army and the Active mander, Muñoz set about applying for the Guard and Reserve ..He is the first AGR Army chaplain program, until he had a Catholic chaplain to achieve this position . conversation with the commanding officer Marc McCormick “I am the first Catholic priest appointed of Fort Buchanan, Col ..Stephen Ackman . Chap. (Capt.) Jesús Muñoz (Catholic) is assigned to the Fort Buchanan Religious Services office providing Catholic Mass and to the AGR program ..That is a great Ackman recognized the need for a other liturgies in addition to counseling services for all members responsibility because I could be the key full-time Spanish speaking Puerto Rican of the community. that closes or opens the door for the next chaplain for the Soldiers and civilians incoming priests who may be appointed,” who work at Fort Buchanan ..The possible at 19, 20 years old just starting to build Muñoz said . availability of acquiring Muñoz dovetailed my life ..I was 19 when I finished my basic training ..I was Catholic and (at that age) I Enlisting in the Army Reserve in March perfectly with that need ..The path was not didn’t know the church; I didn’t know its 1990 he was assigned to Company B, 35th easy . teachings and what it means to be Catholic Signal Battalion as a cable wire installer .. “The (Puerto Rican) Episcopal and then I started reading a lot ..That’s But it was following basic that his mind Conference asked my bishop to let me go when I started taking some spiritual. turned to the chaplaincy . to become a command chaplain,” Muñoz directions in my life,” he said . “I started, at that time, to renew my explained . It was during basic training that Muñoz relationship with God ..When that hap- Muñoz reflected on his path to the realized that it was difficult to speak to pened, I had just broken my leg ..I had a priesthood from his time in basic training . someone in his faith group, and — “I lot of time to think ..The military was my “When I went to basic training, I started couldn’t express what I was experiencing .. world ..I always liked the military ..I was considering God’s will in my life ..At one That’s when I started a dialogue with my thinking that the injury would put me out .. time I never considered myself a religious bishop and he allowed me to become an It was then I was thinking that someone human being ..I was just a regular human… assistant to a chaplain .” was missing in my life… and I found

Nurse Jennifer Johnson moves to Chaplain Corps ennifer J ..Johnson is a nurse practitio- in Tikrit, she provided pastoral care at the Jner who thoroughly enjoys her civilian 46-bed hospital ..There she saw first-hand career in medicine; skills she brought how holistic care — taking of the emo- with her when she joined the Army tional and spiritual well being of a patient Reserve in 1985 ..But she felt something helps physical healing . was missing; that perhaps nursing was a Johnson always carried a Prayer Book bridge to an even greater calling ..In 2003, for U .S ..Forces with her - in the operat- she was ordained as a minister and moved ing room, visiting patients or leading a from the nurse corps to the chaplain corps congregation in prayers ..She also pro- in the Army Reserve . vided spiritual healing to the medical Johnson mobilized for one year in July staff ..Her sense of duty to country by 2006 ..Twenty-one years after she first serving in the Army Reserve and her joined the Army Reserve, her professional responsibility as a person of faith kept and military careers came full circle when her focused ..When she returned from

Courtesy Photo she deployed to Iraq in September 2006 .. Iraq, she was hired as the chaplain of a Chap. (Maj.) Jennifer Johnson leading a service in Tikrit, Iraq. As the chaplain for the military hospital large university hospital ..

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L.A. Police Officer, Former Airman Joins Army Reserve By John D. Wagner Maj ..Gen ..Paul E ..Mock, commander, Public Affairs Office 63rd Regional Readiness Command, is a 63rd Regional Readiness Command retired LAPD lieutenant ..In praising West OS ANGELES, CA — James West, a long- he said, “Re-joining the armed forces is a Ltime police officer, confesses he is natural for West,” Mock said ..”He, like so addicted to excitement ..He won a medal many of our Warrior-Citizens, is a patriot for rescuing a woman from a burning first ..Selfless service is a calling and West building and has served on Air Force epitomizes this .” combat missions, refueling bombers over West’s ultimate goal is to become a CID Bosnia . warrant officer . He has even worked as a bodyguard pro- “I want to work security for the sec- Sgt. II Barbara Barris, LAPD Lt. James West signs his re-enlistment paperwork at the Los tecting Tom Cruise for five years . retary of defense as a warrant officer at Angeles Military Entrance Processing Station. After his swear- West, 48, who retired from the Air the Pentagon,” he said ..“I’m working in ing-in ceremony, West became a sergeant first class in a local MP unit. Force Reserve as a senior master ser- the unit right now to do what I want to accomplish ..You can go for warrant after geant in 2005, is a lieutenant in the Los the living room ..I found her and carried about two years ..You function like Secret Angeles Police Department (LAPD) .. out through the back (door) .” He just completed a new goal: joining Service ..It’s fascinating to me to protect West served in the Arizona and the Army Reserve to become a Criminal people ..You have to have the best trained California Air National Guard, and Air Investigation Division (CID) agent . people who are cool, calm and collected .” Force Reserve for 16 years and in inactive His enlistment and new assignment “I like the excitement and the unknown status for three more ..He was a “boom were a natural continuation for West ..He (of being a police officer), he said ..“If you operator” who thrust a 47-foot metal hose has served as a police officer since 1985, overcome fears of the unknown, you build out of an airplane in mid-air to refuel first in Tucson, Ariz ., and then with confidence and gain self-satisfaction .” another nearby aircraft ..This included LAPD ..He was an active duty Soldier from combat flights over Bosnia in 1993-1994 Clad in his midnight blue police 1978 to 1985 and an MP during part of his and over Iraq before the current war, to uniform and spit-shined shoes, West service . raised his hand on Aug ..29, 2007, to take enforce the “No-Fly” zone . It’s in his blood, says the NCO with his oath of enlistment at an in processing He retired in 2005 because upon promo- close-cropped graying hair . station here ..West will be assigned to a tion to senior master sergeant (E-8) he had CID unit in Bell, Calif ,. and will serve as a “We all have to give something back,” no duty slot to step into . sergeant first class . he said ..“There is satisfaction (to being a “I promoted myself out of a job,” West police officer) .We do things people don’t observed . want to do ..We go down those dark alleys in the night that people don’t want to go Air Force policy would not allow him to down ..People run from fire, we run to fire re-enter service after retirement ..He there- (disasters)…” fore went to the Army ..It was an uphill battle and his recruiters had to apply for For West this was literally true ..He a waiver for him to enlist ..Ultimately one received a Medal of Valor in Tucson was signed by Lt ..Gen ..Jack Stultz, chief, for rescuing an elderly woman from her Army Reserve . burning home in 1989 . The son of an Air Force technical “A party advised me a structure was on sergeant who worked with Minuteman fire,” he recalled ..“We drove down there missiles, West serves as adjutant with the and there it was ..The home was engulfed .. LAPD Counter Terrorism & Criminal There was a man who told me his wife was Sgt. II Barbara Barris, LAPD Intelligence Bureau ..He assists Deputy inside and that she was trapped ..Fire was Lt. James West serves as adjutant with the LAPD Counter Chief Mike Downing in the administra- Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau. He assists Deputy everywhere (inside) I had to get down on tion of a $24 million budget and managing Chief Mike Downing in the administration of a $24 million my hands and knees and crawled through budget and managing 240 employees. 240 employees ..

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Chief, Army Reserve Honors Sergeant first class Kevin Williams

and most of the right side of pital ..He has been very pleased with the the humvee ..His acute driving level of care received and the amount of skills enabled him to maintain preparation made for his transition home . complete control of the vehicle .. “Treatment has been wonderful ..My Instead of the humvee flipping doctors and case manager have been over, Williams’ was able to steer second to none,” said Williams . it safely onto the bank of a nearby canal ..One Soldier, his com- All medical arrangements have been mander, died instantaneously made for him by the Wounded Warrior from shrapnel wounds . Program which helps alleviate various issues that may be encountered on their “All my survival skills kicked road to recovery ..The program can help in at that moment,” said Williams, him obtain full VA benefits while assist- SSG Melissa Garcia who has 21 years of military service AMB McEachin visiting Sergeant First Class Williams 19 OCT 07 at ing them with tracking awards, providing and is a school police officer in Walter Reed. financial counseling, career planning and Philadelphia as a civilian . employment opportunities . By Spec. Mekonya Cheefus Williams was immediately airlifted to Army Reserve Public Affairs After recovery, Williams plans to con- a hospital in Balad with spinal, head, and tinue his career in the Army Reserve .. Soldiers do not put on the uniform and shoulder injuries as well as minor shrapnel His personal goal is to add the rank of perform acts of bravery for the recogni- wounds ..Once stabilized, he was flown to a first sergeant to his military repertoire tion ..They do it for their dedication to hospital in Landstuhl, Germany where he to be placed right above the position of their country and their fellow Soldiers ..It received treatment until arriving at Walter short-stop for the Schofield Barracks, 25th is, however, a special day when a warm Reed Hospital on February 3rd . Infantry Div ..in Hawaii, a sport he enjoyed thank you is given for your sacrifice . The lives of three Soldiers were saved before knee and ACL injuries put baseball Lt ..Gen ..Jack C ..Stultz, Chief, Army in that convoy thanks to Williams ..He has to rest . Reserve, honored Sgt ..1st Class Gerald been awarded the Driver’s Badge, a Bronze “My whole life has been military Williams of Co ..B, 404th Civil Affairs Star and a Purple Heart for his actions and I always strive to be the best,” said Battalion, Fort Dix, N .J ., as the guest of that day . Williams ..“I am dedicated to defending honor at the Army Reserve Christmas Ball “It made me proud to have my battalion this country, the Constitution, and the held in Washington, D .C for his bravery commander tell me that if it had not been Army Reserve ..I will continue” .. and heroic actions while serving on his for my driving, everyone in the vehicle third tour in Iraq . would have “I was truly honored,” said an emotional been killed,” Williams ..“I was surprised because I didn’t said Williams . even know what was happening until he Williams called my name ..The person next to me currently had to tell me to stand while I received a remains at standing ovation .” Walter Reed On January 26, 2007, Williams was a for care and part of a four-vehicle convoy traveling expects to in the Balad area of Northern Iraq ..The soon transi- mission was simply to travel from one tion to receive forward operating base to another but “home care” there is never anything simple about trav- back home in eling in Iraq . Philadelphia The mission became fatal when by his civilian

Williams’ vehicle struck a pressure plate .. doctor and 1st Sgt. Richard L. Jones The blast blew out the engine, three tires local VA hos- Sgt. 1st Class Gerald Williams, Company B, 404th Civil Affairs Battalion, Fort Dix, N.J., prepares to go on patrol from Forward Operating Base Warhorse, near Baqubah, Iraq.

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From Iraq to North Carolina: Face to face, after life-saving surgery

By Karen Cimino After the surgery, Giles flew in a Black “All of us have had patients you will Staff writer Hawk helicopter with a sedated Beatty to never forget, and you are No ..1 for me,” Charlotte Observer another medical facility . said Giles, holding back tears as he spoke . Editor’s note: The following story is Beatty was taken to Germany for further As they reminisced, Beatty said he was reprinted with permission from the Charlotte, treatment after his emergency surgery, seated in the passenger seat of the Humvee N.C. Observer. Col. Bill Giles is an Army and always wanted to talk to Giles again .. when an anti-tank mine went off under Reserve Soldier with the 3274th. Giles, who lives in Huntersville and works him ..Fire and heat seared his face as it at CMC-University, wondered how Beatty flashed through the vehicle ..But everyone Bill Giles and Dale Beatty last met was . survived . three years ago in an operating room in Mosul, Iraq, after an explosion tore Wednesday’s reunion came about when A Soldier in a vehicle ahead of his came through Beatty’s armored Humvee . CMC-University spokesman Lee Brower to his aid, Beatty said . Their brief encoun- “I kept asking him ter on Nov ..15, 2004, where all my guys were made a lasting impres- because I didn’t see sion on both men, who them . reunited for the first “Everyone wants to make a Everyone got thrown time Wednesday at out of the vehicle,” he CMC-Northcross and said ..“I didn’t want to reminisced over coffee, difference in their life. Being in scare him by scream- juice and bagels . ing .” Giles’ face was the Iraq and taking care of wounded So Beatty, 26 at the last face that Beatty, time, tried to stay calm . an Army National Soldiers, you feel like you’ve done Guardsmen, saw before “I can remember life-saving surgery .. something.” — Col. Bill Giles; U.S. the top of your boot And it was a face from was still there and the home . rest of your foot was Army Reserve nurse anesthetist just gone,” Giles said .. Beatty was an inspi - “If it was me, I would ration among the have been yelling and hundreds of patients screaming .” that Giles, a nurse anesthetist with the Army But Beatty’s heart Reserve, helped in Iraq ..Even with part of talked with Giles about his upcoming rate was a reasonable 80 beats per minute, his leg missing, the other one mangled and promotion to colonel and his return next Giles remembered . burns on his face and on one eye, Beatty week to active duty ..Giles told him about Beatty eventually went to Walter Reed was calm, Giles remembered . Beatty, and Brower arranged the reunion . Army Medical Center in Washington, Giles was worried about the possibil- Giles, who rarely saw injured Soldiers D .C ., where he remained for about a year ity of brain injury, too, so he asked the after they recovered, said he didn’t know recovering from his injuries ..He was fea- Soldier where he was from . what to expect: Would Beatty be in a tured in a front-page Observer article on wheelchair? How was he handling his Jan ..18, 2005 . “North Carolina,” Beatty said . injuries? Would he remember their con- Giles said he saw a photo of Beatty with “I said, ‘Well, no kidding ..I’m from the versation? President Bush and first lady Laura Bush Charlotte area,’ ” Giles said . Beatty walked through the door on two in the Army Times, and was proud he had “Me too,” Beatty replied, adding that he prosthetics ..And Giles felt inspired all over helped him survive . grew up in Statesville . again, he said .

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John Simmons, Charlotte Observer Nurse anesthetist Col. Bill Giles (right) of Huntersville and Dale Beatty, a combat veteran patient from Statesville, who last met on an operating room table in Mosul, Iraq, reunite for the first time since their intense meeting in 2004.

Beatty said the hardest thing has been miles in the Marine Corps Marathon in “Everyone wants to make a difference in knowing how much stress his wounds Washington, D .C . their life,” Giles said ..“Being in Iraq and taking care of wounded Soldiers, you feel caused his family because he couldn’t do Beatty is working again as a civilian like you’ve done something .” anything about it . contractor for the N .C ..National Guard, Beatty was about 6 feet 2 inches tall and still living in Statesville ..He’s also Giles said he wants to stay in touch with before the blast, and now stands about 5 director of community and military affairs Beatty ..He’ll go see Beatty’s band play this feet 11 ..He said he can adjust his prosthet- for a nonprofit group, Project American weekend, and he has invited Beatty and ics to his original height when he’s ready, Spirit, which plans to help build homes for his family to come to Hawaii while he’s but just hasn’t done it yet . wounded veterans starting this year . there . He’s been busy, working hard just to “It’s just made my day just to meet “You take care of thousands of patients learn to walk and do many of the things this guy,” said Giles, who will soon begin in your career,” Giles said ..“The thing I he loved before being wounded, he said .. serving three months at Tripler Medical remember about Dale was how calm he He is playing the drums again in his band, Center in Hawaii . was, how devastating his injuries were and how he’s taken it in stride in his life ..He’s Southern Fried Musician’s Association .. It’s guys like Beatty who inspire him to just an inspirational guy .. In the fall, he rode his bicycle 26 .2 keep going back, Giles said .

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A Conversation with the Chief Editor’s note: Warrior-Citizen magazine solidify the application process ..The appli- leadership skills to ensure the candidate had an opportunity to discuss the role of the cation is sent to ARCD for review and has what it takes to be an officer in the Warrant Officer Corps, often referred to as then sent to the Proponent School where twenty-first century Army ..Upon comple- the “Quiet Professionals”, with U.S. Army it is scrutinized by a senior CW5 to ensure tion of WOCS, the candidate is appointed Reserve’s Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jim the applicant meets the selection criteria a WO1 in the US Army Reserve ..Once Thompson. established by the Proponent ..Due to the appointed, the new officer must attend exceptional civilian skills base possessed Warrant Officer Basic (WOBC) which is Here’s what he had to say about the impor by our Army Reserve Soldiers, in many similar to the training received by Branch tance of the Corps and how it relates to the cases applicants who do not fully meet the Commissioned Officers at the Proponent Army Reserve. military standards for appointment receive School ..WOBC can last from eight weeks 1. How do you become a warrant in the approval from the Proponent School to, in some cases ten months ..A warrant Army Reserve? based on those civilian acquired skills .. officer must complete the entire certifica- There are two ways to become a warrant Once the Proponent School approves the tion process in two years . application, it is returned to ARCD and officer in the USAR ..Usually an NCO The second method which applies in forwarded to the DA selection board that who possesses the enlisted feeder MOS, only a few cases is what is referred to as meets every other month at Ft ..Knox, KY .. exhibits the desired technical and leader- high school to flight school ..This process After the applicant is selected for appoint ship skill sets, generally between the sixth - applies to US Army Reserve Aviators ..It and tenth year of service is recruited by ment as a USAR warrant officer, the real is possible for a young HS graduate who work begins ..Warrant officer candidates an Army Reserve warrant officer ..Once possesses the requisite skill sets to gradu- must attend a rigorous four or six week the NCO decides to pursue a new career ate from high school and within twelve Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS) as a warrant officer, an application process to eighteen months, be a fully qualified at Ft ..Rucker, AL; in some cases, with the is initiated ..The Army Reserve Careers Army Aviator . Division (ARCD) formerly Retention approval of the candidate’s Transition Division (RTD) Special Command Chief Warrant Active Guard Reserve (AGR) Soldiers Missions NCO assists the Officer (CCWO), the candi- may also apply for appointment as a USAR warrant officer the process is very similar applicant with the applica- date may attend a reserve to that completed by a TPU Soldier, tion process which includes component course at however, the selection board meets semi- the usual array of paper a US Army National annually . work, photograph and other Guard (USARNG) supporting documentation .. Regional Training 2. What role do you see the Warrant The applicant must also Institute (RTI) which Officer Corps having with the promotion solicit letters of recommen- consists of five (5) of the ARAP program? dation from a CW3, CW4 weekend training ses- Army Reserve warrant officers play or CW5 in his/her sions and a two week a key role in AR-RAP ..We are leaders chosen career active duty training of Army Reserve Soldiers and as such field to session ..WOCS have a responsibility to not only actively evaluates the recruit future warrant officers to replace candidate’s the NCOs’ we depend on for our success .. In support of LTG Stultz’s priority to build the Army Reserve, I consistently remind my officers of our responsibility to support and participate in AR-RAP .. One of our CCWOs’ is a full time AR-RAP team member who travels the Northeast training unit leaders and Soldiers in the process and virtue of AR-RAP ..My direction to the USAR Warrant Officer COHORT is one for one replacement for each NCO we recruit into the ranks of USAR warrant officers .

Photo: Sgt. 1st Class Derrick Witherspoon

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3. Where are the shortages or vacan- construction of base camps and internment maintenance manager is the warrant cies in the Army Reserve for Warrant facilities in support of engineer construc- officer assigned as the maintenance officer .. Officers? tion operations ..The Utilities Operation Army Reserve warrant officers are manag- and Maintenance Technician provides ing maintenance in units ranging from Warrant Officer shortages in many engineering support and expertise to company size elements to the magnitude cases parallel those of the enlisted and Deployable Medical System (DEPMEDS) of the challenge of a Theater Sustainment Branch Officer ranks ..We are critically hospitals, utilizing organic equipment Command . short officers in Military Intelligence, such as power generation equipment, envi- Engineers specifically Utilities Operation 5 What is your overall vision for the ronmental control systems, water, waste, and Maintenance Technician, Air Drop future of Army Reserve Warrant fuel and electrical distribution systems .. Technician, Petroleum Technician, Officers? Develops training strategies, reviews, Mobility Technician Health Services writes doctrine, and presents lifting and Warrant officers overall are taking on Maintenance Technician, and believe it loading, quarrying and rock new and challenging assignments not tra- or not Marine Deck and Marine Engineer crushing, asphalt concrete ditionally associated with our COHORT .. officers ..Transformation has impacted our mixing and surfacing, water Due to the fast moving changes warrant officers in many ways ..Units are purification, refrigeration predicated by transformation and the being inactivated and officers find them- and air conditioning, water constantly changing operational tactics selves looking for homes ..The upside of gap crossing, POL transfer in the current GWOT, warrant officers transformation is that in many cases there and engineer electronic although by definition single tracked are additional opportunities for officers application ..The Engineer officers are taking on challenging roles to seek assignment in more challeng- Equipment Maintenance not normally associated with those of the ing situations and more opportunity for Warrant Officer super- traditional warrant officer ..As such I see advancement . vises maintenance of Army Reserve warrant officers growing 4. Can you talk about the role of non-engineer equipment to meet the challenge of the 21st century Maintenance Warrant Officers? assigned by equipment and taking on the leadership challenges associated with the fast paced 21st century Warrant officers play a key role in main- authorization documents .. Army ..My goal is to establish the ground taining army materiel ..We run the gamut Inspects incoming equipment to deter- work for a corps of officer technicians from aviation to watercraft; Army Reserve mine repair requirements, assigns work with the exceptional leadership skills warrant officers supervise materiel readi- to subordinates, and ensures quality of to accept and excel in the role the army ness of equipment across the spectrum of work performed by inspection of outgoing needs us to fill in the 21st century .. army operations ..The following are spe- equipment .. cialties specific to maintenance operations 948B — Electronic Systems A major role change for modern Army in the US Army Reserve: Maintenance Technician Reserve warrant officers is that of the Command Chief Warrant Officer (CCWO) .. 151A — Aviation Maintenance Establishes section safety and crime The CCWO is a recent and important Technician — Manages personnel, supply, prevention/security programs that adhere addition to the command team at the equipment, and facility assets to main- to the policies, practices, and regula- general officer level ..The CCWO is a tain and repair Army rotary and fixed tions associated with these programs .. member of the commander’s personal wing aircraft ..The Aviation Maintenance The Electronic Systems Maintenance staff and performs duties similar to those Technician supervises aviation equipment Technician manages personnel, equip- of the Command Sergeant Major (CSM) .. maintenance and repair shop, section, ment, and facility assets for operation, The CCWO is the senior advisor to the or platoon and directs maintenance repair, maintenance, and modification . commanding general on matters affect- and accountability of organizational of radio, radar, computer, electronic data ing recruiting, training, retention and test equipment, supplies and recovery processing, controlled cryptographic. life cycle management of Army Reserve equipment ..The Aviation Maintenance items, television, fiber optic, radiological warrant officers ..The CCWO is a key Technician is a non-rated Aviation officer .. and related communications equipment member of the commander’s personal Army Aviators also perform the duties as and associated tools, test, and accessory staff and the role and duties continue to maintenance officers during their career equipment . evolve as we develop the positions and although their primary duty as aviators is Today’s Army Reserve maintenance requirements to support the needs of the flying army aircraft . officer is called upon to not only ensure commander ..Never before has a warrant 210A — Utilities Operation and the maintenance is performed cor- officer been afforded the opportunity Maintenance Technician - Serves as an rectly but must in many cases be ready to work directly at the general officer Engineer Operations Technician across to train Soldiers in the performance of command level enabling direct respon- the broad spectrum of engineer operations maintenance operations, manage main- sibility and oversight for Army Reserve in both operational and non-operational tenance in units across the full spectrum warrant officers .. units ..Plans, supervises and coordinates of operations ..In many cases the senior

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THE QUIET PROFESSIONAL A Tribute to CW4 Raymond A. Frank, U.S. Army

I am sure many warrant officers have with all the same starting word or pattern UH60 in its various configurations .. had the opportunity to see in person the or words, similar to the titles of books by Indeed, this warrant officer was highly fine artwork done by Mr ..Don Stivers .. Robert Ludlum . skilled, highly qualified, and highly pro- Specifically, the picture he created at the fessional . I found the actual answer to be inter- request of USAWOA in commemora - esting and want to share with you what I After learning this, I recalled that I tion of the 75th Anniversary of the Army learned about the title ..The term “quiet had met this warrant officer several years Warrant Officer Corps ..This artwork is professional,” as related to warrant offi- ago ..Initially, I was not sure if it was at an titled “The Quiet Professional ”. Many are cers, was first used by a guest speaker at a Annual Meeting, or if it was in USAWOA curious as to the origin of this title . recent Annual Meeting of the Members .. activities of the European Region ..My When I first heard the title, I was Major General Jack Keane, Commander, memory has since been refreshed that it curious also ..In the fall of 1993, I returned 101st Division (Air Assault), addressed the was in the European Region in the early from Germany and involved myself in the membership at the meeting held in 1992 1980’s ..However, I clearly remember business of our Association’s headquarters .. at Fort Campbell ..General Keane used the that at the times of our meetings, being At that time most of the business portion words “quiet professional” as he talked impressed by his personal bearing and of the arrangement was mostly finished about warrant officers, and specifically professional manner, in both business with Mr ..Stivers, and the title was a “done applied that title to a warrant officer with and informal settings ..I am told that deal .” At that time I did not pursue the whom he was personally acquainted . the vast number of those with whom he source of the title ..However, I had some worked, or shared social occasions, also That warrant officer served in the 160th rather fanciful theories of my own . developed similar admiration and friend Special Operations Aviation Regiment, - ship for him ..The warrant officer of whom My ideas for the source of the name and daily displayed “quiet professional- General Keane spoke, served as a pilot in covered a wide range ..I wondered if the ism .” Through his performance and command of a MH-60 on October 3, 1993, title might have some historical connota- manner, this warrant officer established in Mogadishu, Somalia ..In performance of tion with our Corps ..Or, I thought it might a reputation of excellence for himself and the mission and his duties, that warrant be a type of “dry humor,” as many truly set a standard for other warrant officers officer was shot down and killed, paying professional warrant officers whom I know and the Corps ..This warrant officer was a the ultimate price in service to the Nation .. are anything but “quiet ”. I thought that Master Army Aviator who had excelled in The name of this warrant officer was CW4 perhaps the title might be a subtle sugges- many demanding positions throughout his Raymond A ..Frank, U .S ..Army; “The tion to those of us who tend to get “vocal” career ..He had served as IP, safety officer, Quiet Professional .” at times; we could retain our professional- maintenance officer, etc ..etc ..He was ism while presenting a situation, problem, qualified on several Army aircraft, but his Based on an article by Ray Bell in the June position, or solution, in a “quiet,” manner .. love was the utility helicopter; UH1 and 1995 USAWOA Newsletter. I did not know the other work of Mr .. Stivers, and thought that maybe the titles of his works ran in “series”

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ARMY RESERVE DEPLOYMENTS AS OF 21 MAR 08

GER/NDL 292/8

JORDAN KOSOVO 34 Balkans Rotation NORTHCOM ITALY 119 IRAQ OEF CONUS 9 Iraqi Freedom 8,248 11,871 JAPAN HAWAII AFGHANISTAN 1 84 SENEGAL Enduring Freedom 10 2,080 KOREA 1 KUWAIT HONDURAS 1,338 5 SIERRA LEONE QATAR/UAE COLOMBIA 1 SUDAN 32/2 1 2 DJIBOUTI/HOA/Seychelles 154/2 KENYA/ETHIOPIA/YEMEN 18/9/2 COMOROS 3

TOTALS

PACOM SOUTHCOM CENTCOM AFRICOM EUCOM 86 6 15,526 13 424

OCONUS DEPLOYMENTS 16,055 8% of Army Reserve CONUS DEPLOYMENTS 8,249 4% of Army Reserve TOTAL SOLDIERS DEPLOYED 24,303 12% of all Army Reserve Soldiers

SOURCE: MDIS/SELRES Does not include IRR and IMA Soldiers

Spring 2008 H 61 Transformation Transforming the U.S. Army Reserve As the Army Reserve continues to transform a number of unit activations, conversions and inactivations will take place during the next three years. Here is a snapshot of how many units will be affected by transformation.

227 101 297 165 163 76

Activations conversions

Key Numbers of units affected during each fiscal year. FY 2008 FY 2009 27 58 FY 2010 266

SOURCE: OCAR/Structure and Manpower Allocation System HQUSARC PAO GRAPHIC: Timothy L. Hale inactivations

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U.S. Army Reserve Construction Projects (FY 2007 – FY 2010)

15 P ro j ec ts Key 10 BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) MCAR (Military Construction

Numb er s of Army Reserve) 5 GTA (Grow the Army)

0 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010

Projects By States/Territories Alabama 1 North Carolina 2 Construction Costs Arkansas 6 North Dakota 1 California 6 New Hampshire 1 $191,619 Connecticut 1 New Jersey 4 Delaware 1 Nevada 1 Georgia 1 New York 7 $178,731 Hawaii 1 Ohio 1 Idaho 1 Oklahoma 3 Illinois 1 Pennsylvania 7 Kansas 1 Puerto Rico 4 Kentucky 2 Rhode Island 1 $1.407 M Louisiana 1 Tennessee 2 Massachusetts 2 Texas 13 Meryland 1 Vermont 2 Michigan 2 Washington 4 Missouri 2 Wisconsin 3 Montana 2 SOURCE: HQDA/ACSIM HQUSARC PAO GRAPHIC: Timothy L. Hale

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REGIONAL READINESS COMMANDS (CURRENT) AS OF 15 JAN 08 70th RRC Seattle, Wash. 96th RRC Salt lake City, Utah 77th RRC Fort Totten, N.Y. 88th RRC Fort Snelling, Minn.

94th RRC Fort Devens, Mass.

63d RRC Los Alamitos, CA. 99th RRC Coraopolis, Pa.

USARC, HQ 9th RSC Honolulu, HI 89th RRC Wichita, Kan.

Currently, RRCs are geographically organized as shown. These 81st RRC Birmingham, Ala. organizations provide base operations support to Army Reserve units in their respective regions. In October 2007 they passed a major portion of 90th RRC N. Little Rock, Ark. 65th RRC San Juan, MTOE organizations to the Operational and Functional commands giving Puerto Rico up their command and control role. They continue to perform garrison type support until their disestablishment dates.

REGIONAL SUPPORT COMMANDS AS OF 15 JAN 08 88th RSC Fort McCoy, Wis. Established: 16 Sep 08 BOD: 17 Sep 08 Construction Status 64%

99th RSC Fort Dix, N.J Established: 16 Sep 08 BOD: 19 Sep 08 63rd RSC Construction Status Moffette, Calif. 65% Established: 16 Sep 08 BOD: TBD Construction Status 0% 81st RSC Fort Jackson, S.C We have established in carrier status four Regional Established: 16 Sep 08 ReadinessSustainment Commands (RRSCs) that will provide BOD: 25 Mar 08 garrison type support to Army Reserve units, Soldiers and Construction Status facilities in their defined geographical area after all RRCs are 88% disestablished. The effective date for these organizations is September 2008. BOD: Building Occupancy Date

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OPERATIONAL & FUNCTIONAL COMMANDS AS OF 15 JAN 08

316th ESC 103d ESC 416 ENCOM 200 MP CMD 89 RRC 377 TSC 807th MDSC MIRC AR TSD-E 310th ESC 80th Tng Cmd(TASS) AR TSD-W 88 RRC 311th ESC USACAPOC 63 RRC 108th Tng Cmd (IET) 335 SC (T) USARRC 412 ENCOM 311 SC (T) AR SPT CMD

377 TSC (Main) 143d ESC DRU 75th Div (BCST) 3d MDSC This slide represents the Operational and Functional Commands as they exist today. Much of the structure is on the east coast and thins dramatically across the country toward Operational Commands the west. The Leadership is considering ways to put more units in the west. Functional Commands

RRCS FUTURE STRUCTURE 70th RRC AS OF 15 JAN 08 Seattle, Wash. 96th RRC 88th RRC 301 CSB(ME) Salt Lake City, Utah Fort Snelling, Minn. 77th RRC Fort Lewis, Wash. 96th Sus Bde 372d Eng Bde Flushing, N.Y Salt Lake City, Utah Fort Snelling, Minn. 77th Sus Bde Fort Dix, N.J.

800th MP Bde 302d CSB(ME) Los Alamitos, Calif. Westover, Mass. 63d RRC 94th RRC Los Alamitos, Calif. Fort Devens, Mass. 300th Sus Bde Oakdale, Pa. 99th RRC Oakdale, Pa. MP Bde - Military Police Brigade CSB(ME) - Combat Support Brigade (Maneuver Enhancement) 65th RRC Sus Bde - Sustainment Brigade San Juan, Puerto Rico Eng Bde - Engineer Brigade 166th RSG RSG - Regional Support Group San Juan, Puerto Rico

89th Sus Bde All RRC will disestblish by 2010. The overall Wichita, Kan. transformation plan will better align our units RSG 89th RRC 90th Sus Bde Birmingham, Ala. with the Army Campaign Plan and modular Wichita, Kan. N. Little Rock, Ark. 81st RRC transformation initiatives that will support oper- 90th RRC Birmingham, Ala. ationalizing the Army Reserve and provide more N. Little Rock, Ark. combat support and combat service support units to the force.

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11th Aviation Command Activation Ceremony

By 1st Lt. Michael Garcia The new unit consists of 117 Army The command is also responsible for Public Affairs Office Reserve Soldiers and civilians including managing the training and employment of 11th Aviation Command 57 senior full time staff members (Active- AH-64 Apache Longbow attack helicop- ORT KNOX, Ky. — A new chapter in Army Guard-Reserve) and 13 civilian military ters, UH-60 Blackhawk assault helicopters, FReserve aviation began on Sept ..16, technicians grade GS-7 to GS-13 ..The CH-47 Chinook medium lift helicopters, 2007 when the 11th Aviation Command command is responsible for peacetime C-12 and a UC-35 fixed wing aircraft held an activation ceremony at Fort Knox .. management of more than 3,700 aviation throughout United States ..During deploy- The unit is commanded by Brig ..Gen .. Reserve Soldiers to include one brigade ment, the headquarters will function as a Matthew Matia . headquarters and eight aviation battalions theater aviation command .. located throughout the United States .

1st Lt. Michael Garcia Soldiers of the 11th Aviation Command conduct their activation ceremony on Sept. 16, 2007 at Fort Knox, Ky. Within the command’s inventory are the CH-47 medium lift helicopters (shown).

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SDDC sets historic milestone with DSC stand up IRMINGHAM, Ala. — On Feb ..2, 2008, will enhance our ability to base units in forces…” SDDC immediately began work Bthe Army Reserve Deployment the continental United States and rapidly on the organization’s concept plan, which Support Command (DSC) presented its deploy them where and when needed in the Department of the Army subsequently colors during its stand-up ceremony in support of SDDC and USTRANSCOM’s approved . missions ..In addition, it furthers the Birmingham, Ala ..Maj ..Gen ..Kathleen M .. The new unit will command and control Gainey, commander, Surface Deployment transformation of the Army Reserve by four transportation groups, 12 deploy- and Distribution Command (SDDC), and functionally aligning like units under one ment and distribution battalions and one Maj ..Gen ..Harry J ..Philips, Jr ,. commander, commander to ensure a constantly high railway operation battalion . 377th U .S ..Army Theater Sustainment degree of readiness .” Through the Army transformation Command (TSC), conducted the activation The DSC existed previously as an active process, SDDC restructured former trans- ceremony ..Col ..Janet Cobb accepted the component unit ..Established at Fort portation terminal brigades/ battalions colors as the first commander of the Army Eustis, Va ., on Oct ..1, 1998, the command and deployment support brigades to the Reserve DSC ..The DSC will support was formed by consolidating the mission, SDDC operational missions worldwide new configurations ..The DSC will have functions and geographic area of responsi- and have their Army Reserve command more than 2,400 Army Reserve Soldiers bility of the (then-named) Military Traffic affiliation through the 377th TSC . assigned ..The DSC headquarters has Management Command’s (MTMC) former approximately 62 officers, six warrant offi- The mission of the DSC is command, Eastern and Western Area Commands cers and 55 enlisted Soldiers . control and technical supervision of with headquarters at the Military Ocean SDDC-aligned Army Reserve units Terminal Bayonne, N .J ., and Oakland Unique is the DSC’s relationship with performing terminal, rail, and deployment/ Army Base, Calif ..In 2001, MTMC reorga- MTOE units such as port supervision distribution support missions and func- nized into a single operating headquarters teams, terminal supervision teams and tions ...It also provides technical training split-based at Alexandria and Fort Eustis, automated cargo documentation teams to and readiness oversight to all Army units Va ..MTMC concurrently stood up its the DSC’s 12 deployment and distribution performing terminal, rail deployment/ Operations Center at Fort Eustis and deac- battalions to augment port operations . distribution support, movement control, tivated the DSC on Nov ..7, 2001 ..MTMC SDDC is headquartered at Scott Air and watercraft missions and functions .. is known today as SDDC . Force Base, Ill ., and the 377th Theater The Technical Training and Readiness The creation of the Army Reserve DSC Sustainment Command is located at the Oversight mission of the DSC is to ensure is part of the larger Army transformation Belle Chasse Naval Air Station in New all Army Reserve mobility units are func - effort ..Planning for the DSC has been Orleans, La .. tionally trained . ongoing since the Gainey followed her two predecessors in early part of the working the DSC issue and is pleased to decade ..In 2005, Gen .. have the new command come to fruition .. Norton Schwartz, “The DSC brings great new synergy to USAF, commander, SDDC and its Army Reserve capability,” USTRANSCOM, said Gainey ..“Having one headquarters sent a memo to with technical training and readiness Army Vice Chief of oversight of Army Reserve units ensures Staff Gen ..Richard that our units are trained to standard and Cody that stated are operationally ready for the unique his objective for missions of distribution support and port “…establishment of a operations .” Functional Readiness Command within Philips welcomed the DSC as the newest SDDC to perform 0-7 command to the 377th ..He has worked training and readi Photo Credit Needed the DSC issue for a number of years ..“The - Having joined with Maj. Gen. Kathy Gainey in unfurling the new Army Reserve Deployment DSC is an integral part of our nation’s ness oversight of all surface mobility Support Command colors, Maj. Gen. Harry J. Philips, Jr. prepares to turn them over to Col. Janet global force strategy,” said Philips ..“It Cobb, DSC Commander. 377th TSC Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Meehan stands at the right.

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Fort Hunter Liggett Establishes Training Center

By Amy Phillips lization period and allows for units to the collective unit training and Warrior Public Affairs Office deploy quicker and get more “boots on the exercises operated by the 91st Division .. Combat Support Training Center ground” time in theater ..This concept was Approximately 4,000 Soldiers are trained ORT HUNTER LIGGETT, Calif. — The developed from lessons learned by leaders per rotation with the Army Reserve FU .S ..Army Reserve Command is who witnessed flaws in recent mobiliza- gearing up to two rotations per year . continually developing more missions and tions for Operations Enduring Freedom The RTC mission trains and certifies and Iraqi Freedom . streamlining its efforts to prepare Army Soldiers before they arrive at their mobili- Reserve Soldiers for their increasing role The ever increasing importance of the zation site . in the total force ..One of several new Reserve’s role to provide combat support These new missions are driving a flurry missions is the establishment of four and combat service support units to the of activity to support the increased Army Regional Training Centers (RTC) to be war effort is clearly visible in today’s training at FHL ..One organization seeing stationed across the nation . Global War on Terror ..Units going a significant increase in activity is the through the Combat Support Training Task Force Genesis was activated at Equipment Concentration Site 170 (ECS) Centers (CSTC) and RTCs will not only Fort Hunter Liggett (FHL) to establish at FHL that has received almost 1,600 gain valuable training experiences but also the very first RTC ..The Task Force hit pieces of equipment in 2007, putting their develop unit cohesiveness . the ground running and has already con- current equipment total to more than ducted its first rotation with more than In the last couple of years, USARC has 4,000 ..According to the ECS Supervisor, 200 Soldiers ..The RTCs at Fort Dix and directed four missions to be stationed at Gregg Charvoz, 1,000–2000 more pieces of Fort McCoy are scheduled to be up and the first ever CSTC ..Others are planned at equipment are scheduled to arrive in 2008 .. running in the spring ..A fourth location Fort Dix and Fort McCoy to cover Reserve Ultimately, by 2009 ECS-170 should have has not been determined . training at other regions of the country . about 7,000–8,000 pieces of equipment to The new RTC training concept is The CSTC mission was established in manage ..Like the Installation, the ECS has designed to host individual and small 2005 to provide a training site for Reserve an urgent need to hire more personnel and unit training ..Their mission is to train units to conduct large scale collective fast .. and certify Soldiers before they arrive training during Year 3 of 5 in the Army It is no secret that things are booming at their mobilization site which reduces Reserve rotational deployment concept .. at the CSTC ..In FY07, FHL had 550,000 training time spent during actual mobi- Approximately 4,000 Soldiers are trained training days and that number is expected per rotation with the Army to increase to 700,000 in FY08; at CP, Reserve gearing up to two there were 98,000 training days in FY07 rotations per year ..FHL and and 107,800 are expected for FY08 . Camp Parks (CP) has already In addition to all of the above training, hosted many large scale exer - the Navy is using the CSTC/FHL for their cises such as Pacific Survivor Sea Bee readiness rotations which consists 2006, Pacific Warrior 2007, of three 30-day rotations, each bringing Essayons 2006 and 2007, and about 1,500 Sailors ..CP will also have new Golden Medic 2006 and 2007 . National Guard tenants sometime in 2008 .. The Army School System Many other military and government Training Center (TTC) agencies also use both garrisons routinely institutional/school house for their training activities . training operated by the “We are excited to welcome another 80th TTC at FHL and 104th mission that will make our Soldiers Army Division at CP; at least 500 Strong ..The CSTC stands by to support Soldiers are trained at any and defend those working, training and given time throughout the living at our installation,” said Col ..Kevin 2nd Lt. Antony Billes year at each garrison . Riedler, CSTC commander .. Real Iraqis were contracted to portray villagers to engage Soldiers at a traffic checkpoint which tested the Soldiers’ ability to work with an interpreter and civil- Training Readiness ians on the battlefield. Platform (TRP) missions are

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Mark A. Schulz Col. Garth Anderson views the rolling of the flag for the 755th Postal Company as Sgt. 1st Class Wanda Hadley holds the flag for Sgt. 1st Class Melanie Torres. 755TH AG Company (Postal) Inactivates in Texas EXARKANA, Texas — The 755th Adjutant sergeant as they encased the unit flag and Command Sgt ..Major Guy N ..Taylor of TGeneral Company (Postal) flag was handed it to Anderson who is the com- the 90th RRC headquarters also noted the slowly rolled around the wooden pole by mander of the 353rd Engineer Group in significance of the furling of the unit flag Sgt ..1st Class Melanie Torres as Sgt ..1st Oklahoma City, Okla . but reminded the Soldiers that the unit Class Wanda Hadley held it steady while may be needed in the future ..He was refer Anderson stood in for Brig ..Gen .. - under the watchful eye of Col ..Garth Philip Hanrahan, commander of the ring to the history of the unit, which was Anderson . 90th Regional Readiness Command in activated twice in 1949 and again in 1990 This was the scene Sunday (Dec ..16) as North Little Rock, Ark ..He acknowledged and for a fourth time in 2003 ..He pointed the postal company was inactivated at 10 the past accomplishments of the postal out that “opportunities to serve will still a .m ..here ..This was the end to a United company and reminded the small audience be there, but transformation is a must in States Army Reserve company which had that Soldiers today still appreciate the fact order to make our Army relevant .” a history dating back to 1949 and had that receiving the mail is one of the top The 755th AG Company received unit returned from active duty in January, quality of life issues ..We all understand awards for the Defense of Saudi Arabia, 2004, serving in the War on Terrorism . that “the important part is when the mail Liberation and Defense of Kuwait, and the Hadley served as the acting commander comes in…and it is especially important at War on Terrorism .. of the 755th and Torres was the acting first this time of year,” said Anderson .

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Around the Army Reserve: Transforming the Force 348th Personnel Group Cases its colors

EW ORLEANS, La. — The 348th NPersonnel Group performed an inactivation ceremony Dec ..8, 2007 with furling and casing of the unit’s flag at their facilities . Brig ..Gen ..Philip L ..Hanrahan, Commander of the 90th Regional Readiness Command (RRC), Col ..Scott D ..Sanders, 348th Commander, and Command Sgt .. Maj ..Wayman G ..Bacon, officiated at the ceremony . The 348th Personnel Group is an Army Reserve unit under the command of the 90th RRC in North Little Rock, Ark . Sanders said to his troops, “Some of us were in Iraq under the unit .. Capt. Kavanaugh Breazeale The 348th served its purpose well, The 348th Personnel Group, New Orleans, inactivates with the furling and casing of the unit’s flag. Command Sgt. Maj. Wayman under.fire and in peacetime ”. G. Bacon, Col. Scott D. Sanders, 348th Commander, and Brig. Gen. Philip L. Hanrahan, Commander of the 90th Regional Readiness Command (RRC) officiate at the ceremony. The 348th Personnel Group is an Army Reserve unit under the command of The 348th.flag was furled and the 90th RRC in North Little Rock, Ark. the colors were cased as “Taps” played in the background ..Hanrahan explained, “The unit has been on active “The unit has been on active duty since Sept. 11, duty since Sept ..11, 2001, longer than they have been since World War II ..We 2001, longer than they have been since World War didn’t destroy the colors, they are cased .. The spirit lives on as each of you move II. We didn’t destroy the colors, they are cased. The forward .” Sanders is a civilian with the 90th spirit lives on as each of you move forward.” RRC as Chief of Human Resources Division, Deputy Chief of Staff . — Brig. Gen. Philip L. Hanrahan; Commander of the The 90th RRC will conduct inac- 90th Regional Readiness Command (RRC) tivation ceremonies of its units over the next 18 months as a part of the Army’s transformation and the Base Army Reserve’s command and control Its inactivation would also support Realignment and Closure Committee restructuring initiative to reduce regional the transformation of Army Reserve (BRAC) recommendations . readiness commands from ten to four . operational force structure by activating a sustainment brigade in Little Rock, Ark ., The unit inactivation comes as a result Both the 63rd Regional Readiness in place of the 90th RRC, which, accord- of the 2005 BRAC Committee’s recom- Command in Los Alamitos, Calif ., and ing to DoD, would increase the deployable mendation for DoD to disestablish the the 90th Regional Readiness Command in capability of the Army Reserve to support 90th RRC ..This recommendation would Little Rock, Ark ., would be disestablished the Active Army .. support the U .S . and replaced by creating a new consolidated headquarters at MoffettField, Calif .

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316th ESC transforms logistical operations for the better By Maj. Christopher E. West “Our job is to ensure that proper plan- senior enlisted leader of the 316th ..“That Public Affairs Office ning has taken place, that each unit we is what we do here daily, around the clock .. 316th Sustainment Command support can fulfill its mission, that their We provide the resources needed to main- (Expeditionary) movements go smoothly, and that they tain our combat effectiveness whether in SA ANACONDA, Iraq — As the U .S ..Amy have the best equipment and supplies,” Taji, Baghdad, Tikrit, Kuwait, or here .” said Couch . LReserve prepares to celebrate its 100th The transformation-era modular unit anniversary of distinguished service to The command’s motto, “Sustain the with over 400 Soldiers and Airmen our nation in April, 2008 the Soldiers Victory,” translates into providing every- assigned from 42 states and three coun- and Airmen of the 316th Sustainment thing from bullets to beans, from fuel to tries was not only formed to address Command (Expeditionary) (ESC), an maintenance parts to coordinating certain its current wartime mission, but also Army Reserve unit from Coraopolis, Pa ., human resources ..The command over- to address the military’s mission of are busy making history too ..The 316th is sees 20,000 logistical Soldiers, providing sustained logistical support and rapid the first U .S ..Army element of its kind to support to U .S ..forces, Coalition partners response in emergencies . test the validity of modular force logistics and Iraqi forces in theater . Through their collective efforts and in a wartime environment . “The Army Reserve is no longer simply by their sheer presence, they are helping Prior to assuming its pioneering role as a force in reserve ..We are a vital part of the people of Iraq achieve the political, the senior logistics command in Iraq in our nation’s defense ..We are no longer a diplomatic, economic, and security mile- August, 2007 the unit trained extensively strategic force that stays in reserve until stones needed to reach independence and for several months to ensure it was poised we are needed to supplement other forces .. to assume a contributing role in the world and battle ready to help combat units Today’s Army Reserve is a skill-rich, community ..Without question, the 316th achieve and sustain the victory . operational force, complementing the ESC is a unit that is making history, “We’re versatile and mobile, can cater to joint force where and when needed,” said doing things that no other Army unit has several military branches — whether U .S ,. Command Sgt ..Maj ..Stacey Davis, the done before .. Coalition or Iraqi and can manage logistics at every level in theater, from the individual Soldier to the collective unit mission,” said Brig ..Gen ..Gregory E ..Couch, commanding general of the 316th ESC . Modular force logistics is an evo- lutionary concept which emphasizes streamlining the process of how supply resources are procured, distributed, and replenished ..This new concept helps military logistics elements forecast resources needed more effectively and efficiently . It also helps diminish redundancies by reducing unnecessary layers ..Operational command and control improves by providing leaders total visibility of the distribution system, its content, and the theater infrastructure . Maj. Christopher West Command Sgt. Maj. Stacey Davis confers with Sgt. Maj. Richard Mason, 316th ESC G-4 sergeant major, on logistical matters germane to NCOs and junior enlisted Soldiers.

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Launch of the Army Integrated Family Support Network

hat is it? The Army Integrated Until now, Active, Guard, and Reserve nents ..This funding provides cross-level WFamily Support Network (AIFSN) organizational structures created overlap- staffing, training, and advanced technol- will provide a new support network for ping lines of authority with regard to ogy to reach our geographically dispersed Soldiers and Families regardless of their programs for Army Families ..Each com- Families . proximity to a military installation ..When ponent functioned independently in the What efforts does the Army plan to fully implemented, this network will delivery of Family programs ..The AIFSN continue in the future? The AIFSN will address Family issues head on by provid - was specifically designed to meet the needs also target new Soldiers and Families, ing a single, holistic institutional network of “geographically dispersed” Soldiers improving their awareness of and access to of standardized services . and Families, in both active and reserve services . components, from mobilized Soldiers What has the Army done? Through to recruiters to Families located outside Why is this important to the Army? a collective effort by the active Army, reasonable driving distances of military The AIFSN supports Family readiness Guard, and Reserve, the Army has lever- facilities . needs of the entire expeditionary force and aged the power of the Internet to provide will provide more consistent and uniform a single portal for information and ser An initial $7 million has already been - Family services during extended deploy- invested in the training and technology vices traditionally only found on military ments to Active, Guard, and Reserve to “jump start” the program to create installations . Families .. uniform Family programs across compo-

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By Sgt. 1st Class Chris Farley There is a big Public Affairs Office emphasis on teach- 88th Regional Readiness Command ing leadership skills at LOOMINGTON, Minn. — They came from YLEAD but it’s only Ball over the 88th Regional Readiness one category within an Command’s (RRC) region and some even bigger core curricu- came from outside the 88th’s region for lum for these volunteer their final destination the Water Park of teens ..CYS administra- America, in Bloomington, Minn . tors broke the teens into small groups and had Sure they came to swim, but they also discussions on military came to learn to be leaders .. life, community volun- In August 2007 the 88th RRC Child teering, team building Youth Services hosted its first Youth and much more . Leadership, Education and Development “YLEAD is impor- (YLEAD) program in Bloomington with tant because it brings an emphasis on learning “The 7 Habits of youth together from Highly Effective Teens” workshop from different communities Franklin Covey and having lots of fun .. and different states in Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits their region, and they of Highly Effective People (SHHEP) is are able to see teenagers a bestselling book with more than 10 that have had similar million copies in print ..SHHEP was experiences,” said adapted into a motivational book for Ijeoma Osuji, 88th RRC teenagers ..The Seven Habits of Highly child and youth services Effective Teenagers is written to motivate regional coordinator . Sgt. 1st Class Chris Farley and connect with teens by using language Bringing teens Jane Burkitt, left, 15, from St. Paul, Minn., and Ashley Janke, 17, from Eagan, they can identify with ..Also, SHHET has together to share expe- Minn., make a fleece blanket during the Youth Leadership Education and Development summit. real-life scenarios with teenager’s inter- riences is important ests and experiences in mind so they can because it helps to find a representative from the VA Medical understand and learn .. and build coping strategies for a deploy- Center ..“Many groups donate blankets to Family Programs and Child Youth ment of a loved one ..Unlike the active the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis for Services (CYS) started YLEAD in 2006 .. Army, whose communities are centrally patients, but very few are teenage volun- YLEAD teaches kids how to market the located, Army Reserve families are spread teer groups like YLEAD that does this,” Army Reserve and use leadership skills all over the country ..This is the problem said Boisvert . in everyday life, college and when their Family Programs and Child Youth parent or family member is deployed . Services have been trying to remedy since Jasmine Jones expected to sit through a the Global War on Terrorism started . boring event, but she said it has surpris- “It’s a win for the kids and the Army ingly been fun ..“Its (YLEAD and learning Reserve,” said C .R ..Lee Ratliff Jr director Before the YLEAD group split into the SHHET) important because even if of Army Reserve Family Programs . their breakout groups, the teenagers it isn’t changing the world, it helps you worked on making fleece lap blankets YLEAD, hosted by the 88th RRC CYS, change people around you which eventu- that were later donated to patients at the was open to highly motivated teenagers, ally changes the world in a small way,” Veterans Administration (VA) Medical ages 14–17 that had an Army Reserve said Jones . Center in Minneapolis . family member ..Thirty-eight teenag- If you are interested in attending ers volunteered and answered the call to “The lap blankets will be distributed YLEAD, call your local Family Programs attend YLEAD . out to patients; they take them home and and Child Youth Services representative .. they love them,” said Rhonda Boisvert,

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Army Reserve Training Command Receives Family Readiness Award

By Sgt. 1st Class Derrick Witherspoon to help them ..Each unit received a coming units to and from Iraq,” said Mallory .. Office of the Chief, Army Reserve, Army memorative plaque and a check for $1,000 “Two- thirds of our deployed Soldiers Reserve Communications to help support their Family Readiness came from my division, but the other third RLINGTON, Va. — There is an ancient Program . came from places such as California and AAfrican proverb that states it takes a During his speech to the awardees and Puerto Rico, so we had to establish a new village to raise a child, but by the same their guests, Secretary Hall said he realizes operational paradigm to reach all of our token it also takes a well established how important it is to recognize military families .” Family Readiness Program to help families and he plans to continue to recog- Mallory said the 108th Training maintain an Army Reserve unit’s mission nize them throughout his term . Command (IET) Family Readiness Group readiness ..The 108th Training Command (Initial Entry Training) was recently honored in February for doing just that . The Honorable Thomas Hall, assistant secretary of defense (Reserve Affairs), along with the Military Officers “There is a command emphasis on Association of America President, Vice Adm ..Norbert R ..Ryan, Jr ., U .S ..Navy (Ret .), hosted the 2007 Department of training our Soldiers to take care Defense Reserve Family Readiness Awards ceremony, which was held at the Hall of of their Family members before Heroes in the Pentagon ..The DoD Reserve Family Readiness Award recognizes the they deploy, which plays a big National Guard and Reserve units — one from each of the seven Reserve components - with the very best programs to part in our Families’ readiness.” support their families ..The 108th Training Command (IET), located in Charlotte, — Charlotte A. Douglas, Family N .C ., was chosen as the winner from the Army Reserve ..This is the commands third win . Program Coordinator.” Award criteria includes the readiness of Reserve service-member families as mea- sured by the levels of individual family readiness and family care plans created; helped their families, near and far, to Maj ..Gen ..James B ..Mallory, III, com- family members possessing current obtain all of the services they needed while manding general of the 108th Training valid military dependent identification their Soldier was deployed, which allowed Command (IET), said this award is a great cards; up-to-date data within the Defense their Soldiers to focus their concentration reflection on the command’s volunteers Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System primarily on their missions . (DEERS) and the unit’s implementation of and family support staff . “There is a command emphasis on programs designed to educate and inform “For the past two years, we have been training our Soldiers to take care of their families about the many benefits available in a process of deploying and redeploy-

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family members before they deploy, which “They (108th’s family support staff) “We have a lot of processes and systems plays a big part in our families’ readiness,” recently briefed my wife on their ‘Fort in the Army and across the Department of said Charlotte A ..Douglas, family program Family’ concept, where they have estab- Defense that are there to assist and provide coordinator ..“One of the things that we lished a way of measuring family readiness information and official help,” said always keep in mind is that the Soldier as part of the readiness of their units,” Mallory ..“In the end, commanders must is also part of the family and we need to said Stultz ..“They are leap years ahead, in remember that the Army is about people focus on them the same way we focus on terms of their Family Readiness Program, and relationships, and having an estab- their family members .” and other units should be using their Fort lished Family Readiness Program can help Lt ..Gen ..Jack C ..Stultz, chief, Army Family concept as a model for their pro- build bridges that can go a long way .” Reserve, said the 108th Training grams ”. Command (IET) has set the standard in Mallory said units should not be con- the Army Reserve for how units should strained geographically, but should find establish a family support network across a various ways, such as virtual programs, to wide geographical area . reach their families that are miles away .

SFC Deborah P. Williams Members of the 108th Training Command (Initial Entry Training) receive their DoD Reserve Family Readiness Award from The Honorable Thomas Hall, assistant secretary of defense (Reserve Affairs), inside the Pentagon’s Hall of Heros. From left to right: Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz, chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen. James B. Mallory, III, commanding general of the 108th Training Command (IET), and his wife, Mary; The Honorable Thomas Hall, assistant secretary of defense for Reserve Affairs; Charlotte A. Douglas; and Heather G. Hill.

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The Store Commander Editor’s note: Brig. Gen. Keith L. Thurgood ent styles and techniques to reach out and line, which returns more dividends to is the first Army Reserve Soldier to command touch a customer, Soldier, Airman, family Soldiers, Airmen and families ..In other the Army & Air Force Exchange Service member or the community ..My experience words, we get a great benefit and an effi- (AAFES) in its 112 year history. has taught me that leaders at all levels cient organization ..To create a framework make a difference . for our team members to think about the WARRIOR-CITIZEN (W-C): You have made way ahead, when I assumed command, history by taking this assignment ..How The second thing that can be leveraged I summed this philosophy up by saying does this feel? is a renewed focus on operational excel- that our efforts going forward would be as lence ..Specifically, developing business Brig. Gen. Keith L. Thurgood (Thurgood): simple as A, B, C . owners who understand the impact of Whether you’re an Army Reserve officer enterprise-wide productivity and align A: Act Now… be proactive and seize the or an active duty officer, it’s an honor and - initiative… we own this business . a privilege for me to come here in the first ing performance and incentive systems place ..To be selected as the first Army to incent the right behavior ..I see a move B: Build the Bench… grow efficient Reserve officer to command this position towards more “pay-for-performance” managers and effective leaders at all contracts and redesigning our individual is an honor and it puts, for me person- levels of the organization . performance measurement systems .. ally, a little bit of personal pressure on me Driving productivity has a geometric C: Customers… why we exist and whom because I want to represent not only the effect on the bottom line vs ..increasing we serve… at AAFES, “WE SERVE” Army Reserve in a very positive way but the revenue stream ..We want and drive also the United States Army and make a Cost… focus on our cost structure and for both of course, but when one oper difference in the lives of the Associates, - productivity… there is an exponential Airmen and Soldiers . ates a small margin business there is a return on productivity . premium on productivity ..For example, Cash… improving direct operating W-C: As career senior executive with recent results where AAFES saw a double profit and wise use of cash… this will Frito-Lay and Pepsi for 20 years, how have digit growth in earnings were driven in drive and increased dividend . your skills translated to your AAFES job? part by productivity ..We can duplicate Thurgood: First, everything we do is these results by leveraging the power Collaboration… we improve together about leadership and leadership starts of all 45,000 of our Associates to fill the Community… we are part of a global with me ..Effective leaders do two things innovation pipeline, replicating best prac- community and have responsibility to — they model the way and deliver tices, holding each other and our trading give back results ..Whether you are leading a team partners accountable for performance and By focusing on a few “big things,” we at PepsiCo or a large organization such as collaborating with our partners . can and will make a difference as we face a AAFES, it is a leader’s first responsibility W-C: What is your philosophy for running variety of challenges . to define new realities while articulating AAFES? Can you tell us more about that? a clear and compelling vision of where W-C: What do you like about your AAFES the organization is headed, developing Thurgood: One of the tenets of my phi- assignment the most? losophy will be to build on the “genius of strategies to achieve the vision and then Thurgood: Without question, the thing rallying the right resources to execute the the and” as opposed to being captive to the “tyranny of the or .” In other words, that I like the most is working with the strategies ..As leaders, we leverage differ- we want to provide world class benefits Associates and seeing the transformation and a lean operation ..I don’t subscribe and change that we’re creating in the to an “either or” paradigm, which is why organization ..So as we drive the organization toward a culture of performance and AAFES needs effective leaders and effi- a culture of ownership, one of the most cient managers to drive and deliver on exciting things to me is to see all of the the agenda ..At the heart of my philosophy things that we’ve been talking about now are people ..That includes our internal starting to take root in the organization .. associates, our external partners and our It’s great to see our people, who are really customers ..People are not expense items at the core of the organization, make a on a balance sheet ..Our human capital is difference ..The other exciting thing about an asset not an expense ..In fact, it is our this job is getting to meet with our senior people who drive productivity across the civilian and military leaders, as well as, enterprise and by leaning out the organi- CEO’s of corporations all across the glob .. zation across all operational directorates, Dan Rodriquez, AAFES Fun stuff! Brig. Gen. Keith L. Thurgood, commander AAFES. the natural benefit will be a better bottom

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W-C: You’ve been in command before, but for the second or third time ..Because of the table ..I believe we will be better this is the first time in retail operations .. shoppers expect more our challenge is to off as an Army Reserve organization, How will this new skill set benefit your deliver on AAFES’ commitment to “Go an Army and as civilian organizations .. next command in the AR? Where You Go” by exceeding the expecta- What a great way to celebrate the 100th tions of the best customers in the world .. Anniversary of the USAR, telling a story Thurgood: The things that I’m learn- We have the chance to do this in creative where everybody wins . ing here will help me in any assignment .. and innovative ways that will delight Understanding the current realities, One of the things we need to do a better them with a great shopping experience ..By defining a strategic end state or vision, job of is making sure that we, as civil- leveraging the experience of associates, we allocating resources, creating a sense of ian organizations, support the employee can create customers for life ..At the same urgency for change, creating a sense of via such organizations as the Employer time we are cognizant of that fact that our ownership, flawless execution, celebrating Support for the Guard and Reserve Soldiers and Airmen are in a combat zone .. our wins, all these are ideas and skills that program ..Likewise the Army and govern- Iraq isn’t Fort Hood ..We work very closely I can carry forward ..When you’re leading ment can do a much better job at reaching with the combatant commanders to ensure a large, diverse organization of 45,000 out to the employers who make deploy- our services are convenient and value- people, it’s all about leadership ..It’s about ments of Army Reserve Soldiers possible .. added, but don’t detract from the focus on setting the right example and walking the As many of our leaders have noted, we can the mission . talk ..It’s making sure that from a strategic expect an era of persistent conflict, thus it standpoint the organization is set up for W-C: In your opinion, how does both the is very important that we engage our com- success in the future ..Every leader wants to civilian and military sectors benefit from munities and employer early and often by leave the organization better than the experience of AR Soldiers? collaborating with them in different ways .. when they arrived ..I want to do And, as I mentioned, it makes the same thing . good business sense because we come back to our civilian jobs W-C: How will your experience as with a different skill set than a customer and Soldier affect your “By focusing on a few ‘big when we left ..As we leverage those goals for AAFES? things,’ we can and will make a skills sets in new ways, both orga- Thurgood: I had the great oppor- nizations grow . tunity to shop at AAFES while W-C: What kind of changes can growing up ..Growing up in difference as we face a variety Soldiers expect to see at AAFES? Europe, our family depended on AAFES to provide all the “home” of challenges.” — Brig. Gen. Thurgood: We are changing necessities, including toys ..When the face of AAFES in order to I think of AAFES and what it Keith L. Thurgood enhance the quality of products meant to me as a youngster, I and service we provide the troops .. think of toys ..After I was commis- AAFES completed $344 million sioned, my first duty assignment in capital improvements at 57 Thurgood: One of the great things about was back to Europe ..As a young lieutenant installations worldwide to provide our cus- the Army Reserve is we can bring our with two children, we relied heavily on tomers with 496 new or renovated retail, civilian skill sets to bear on military prob- the services and merchandise that AAFES dining, and services destinations ..We are lems or, in my case, AAFES ..So I’m able provided… access to American products becoming more energy conscious in our to take the things I learned at Pepsi and at the PX, shopping in the main store, new construction ..Cooperative efforts apply them here ..And likewise, when I movies and the catalog ..Since new lieuten- with sister exchanges allows our customer return to my civilian job, I will go back ants don’t have much money, Carol (my to broaden their use of gift cards at any with experiences and new skill sets that wife) was very conscious about shopping military exchange in the world ..We are I didn’t have before that will make my for the best “deals” …AAFES was and still improving our online shopping experience civilian organization better ..For example, is a great place to stretch your dollar… it with the All- Service Exchange Catalog other than these kinds of jobs, where can is a place where a great value proposition and Exchange Online Store ..We are con- an employer send one of their Associates and a customer meet to make a deal . tinuously expanding our vendor partners to lead and run a $10B business unit with to give our customers a greater selection During my recent tour of duty in profit and loss responsibility for free ..Now of products and services ..Not only are Kuwait and Iraq, I was astonished at the it’s not really free of course, because there we expanding our vendor partners, we scope of AAFES operations ..The size and is an organizational cost of supporting are expanding our “private label” prod- number of stores as well as the assortment a mobilization ..At the end of the day, I ucts manufactured under the Exchange of merchandise was outstanding, and far believe it’s a very symbiotic relationship Services’ “Exchange Select” brand ..These exceeded my expectations ..The challenge and the more we foster that kind of think - products will save our customers anywhere now is to continue to meet the expecta- ing the more value we bring to both sides from 20 percent to 50 percent when com- tions of our customers who are deploying

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pared to name brand counterparts ..We are members a bit of working with the Defense Commissary home in that dif- Agency to develop joint-use facilities .. ficult environment .. Soldiers and Airmen will see ‘lifestyle They volunteered centers’ in their future ..AAFES is provid- to leave the coming our customers the option to use our forts of home and co-branded Military Star Card designed to deploy to dangerous enhance the overall shopping experience locations through- with the additional incentives provided .. out the region and This will reduce our bank-issued credit are the backbone card expenses and generate more funds for of AAFES’ contin- MWR ..We are also looking into providing gency operations one-stop shopping for our customers’ com- throughout the munications needs ..We are aggressively Middle East . marketing our services and capabilities Finally, we work Capt. Samuel J.Jungman, AAFES BG Thurgood meets an AAFES Associate at the Grafenwoehr Exchange in Germany. to the USAR and NG ..We have over 1 really hard to be million Reservists but only 90,000 under- our customer’s first stand, and are using the benefit ..Finally, choice by provid- we are working closely with the Army and experience ..All this is great news for our ing them the convenience of goods and Air Force staff to ensure we are supporting families who reap the benefits in a higher services at competitively low prices and the great family initiatives and delivering dividend ..You cannot buy the experiences generate profits to support Morale Welfare on our commitments . I have had at PepsiCo nor can PepsiCo buy and Recreation programs ..Last year $263 .6 the experience that I will bring back to What do you feel already works well million of AAFES’ earnings were returned W-C: them ..In the end, I think you can say that in the AAFES organization for Soldiers? to the services . what I learned at PepsiCo that I think is Thurgood: AAFES is very diverse, global W-C: How long will you be in command of very applicable here . retailer ..We carry an assortment of mer- AAFES? W-C: In closing, is there anything else you chandise that’s combination department Thurgood: I’ve been at AAFES for about 8 would like to mention? store and discounter prices ..AAFES has months ..I assumed command August 15, specialty stores that include Shoppettes Thurgood: Don’t be afraid of change .. 2007 . (convenience stores), gas stations, car care Embrace it and be warmed by its enthu- centers, book stores, video rentals, class six W-C: What principles from PepsiCo do siastic fire ..In various command positions shops (alcoholic beverage stores), modern you bring to AAFES? I’ve developed a few “rules of the road” food courts, theaters, vending machines Thurgood: One of the great things about that have guided the teams I’ve had the and a wide range of personal services that PepsiCo is that it is an organization whose pleasure to be a part of ..It’s not necessar- we offer to our customers ..We strive daily performance is fundamentally based on ily a statement of philosophy, but rather to meet the needs of our 11 .6 million leadership ..The great legacy of organiza- a few simple rules to guide our actions .. diverse customer base, 25 percent which tions like PepsiCo is that it grows leaders I know I’ve tossed out a few mnemonic are our Air National Guard and Reserve and then plants them across the organiza- devices to tell the story, but in addition to Soldiers . tion with the expectation of delivering my A, B, Cs, I have “Thurgood’s 4 Rules of the Road:” Servicing that customer base are our results ..PepsiCo is a very performance- Associates ..I can’t say enough about driven organization that understands the the dedication and commitment of our impact that leaders have on driving results Rules of the Road and changing performance ..I’ve been able Associates here advocating doing what’s • Don’t Bunt… be bold and swing hard… to take those things that I have learned right for our Soldiers, Airmen and their live a legacy… belong to the fellowship there, in either small teams or large teams, families ..Leading a workforce that enthu- of the doers . siastically and selflessly supports troops and bring them into this position ..The and their families, no matter where they combination of driving for results, setting • No 2nd Place Trophies… strive for go, is a unique and special mission that the right kind of agenda, balancing stra- excellence… you are either a pioneer or very few commanders will ever have a tegic views with tactical execution are all a settler . chance to experience ..We live our motto concepts that I’ve tried to bring to this • Look for Yellow Cars… pay attention… “We Go Where You Go!” team ..And the good news is the results or look for things you don’t ordinarily look our joint efforts are showing ..Earnings are Additionally, last year we reach a mile for and learn from your observations . - up over 20% vs ..last year; inventory levels stone deploying our 2,000th Associate are down by over $200M; and our focus • Solve for Yes… be part of the solution downrange ..Our Associates work long on customers is improving the in-store not part of the problem .. hours, 7 days a week to bring service

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Commissary benefit follows 100 Years of Army Reserve

By Dr. Peter D. Skirbunt this benefit with Soldiers in uniform often time spent in training or on active-duty DeCA historian working inside the stores . status ..However, in 1986 they received an ORT LEE, Va. — Throughout the U .S .. By 1952, the Reserve Corps officially additional 12 shopping visits annually .. FArmy Reserve’s first 100 years, became known as the Army Reserve and That number increased to 24 in 1998, commissaries have been there serving was well on its way to carving out a proud and in 2001, reservists serving more than those who sacrifice so much to serve the legacy of service ..That same year, the 30 days on active duty in any given year nation . Department of Defense ordered an across- earned unlimited shopping privileges for that year . “Since 1908, Army reservists have the-board, 2 percent surcharge to help proudly served whenever and wherever cover the commissaries’ expenses; this In November 2003, in recognition of this nation needed them,” said Rick Page, was gradually increased until it reached the Reserve’s importance in the global acting director of the Defense Commissary its current level, 5 percent, in 1983 ..Funds war on terrorism – including service in Agency ..“Throughout that time, during generated by the surcharge pay for con- Afghanistan and Iraq – and its continu- periods of peace or conflict, we always struction, renovation and maintenance of ing contribution to the nation’s military knew we could depend on reservists to commissary structures, as well as for some readiness, all reservists received unlimited answer the call, and military commissaries supplies and equipment . commissary shopping privileges, regardless were there to deliver them a benefit they Control of Army commissaries became of time spent in training or on active duty . had earned . the official responsibility of the Army’s Today, Army reservists and their fami- “As they turn the page toward the next newly activated Troop Support Agency in lies can shop at any of 258 commissaries 100 years, the Army Reserve deserves 1972 ..Meanwhile, the creation of the all- that DeCA operates throughout the United nothing less than DeCA’s commitment volunteer force in 1973 made the Reserve States and around the world ..The stores to serve them and their families with a increasingly important in America’s carry a wide selection of American grocery premier commissary benefit ”. military planning, policy and combat products – stock lists, limited to 82 items deployments ..In recognition of that vital in 1867, today offer more than 14,000 Over the past 100 years, both the Army role, reservists’ commissary privileges have items – and provide an annual savings of Reserve and military commissaries under- steadily increased ..Although reservists 30 percent or more when compared with went various transformations ..During the always had commissary shopping privi- private-sector supermarkets .. 19th century, several temporary reserve leges, they were originally limited to the organizations had operated – for example, a temporary veteran reserve corps operated from 1863 to 1865 – before policymakers became convinced of the need for a perma- nent “ready reserve” of trained Soldiers, able to serve on quick notice ..On April 23, 1908, Congress established the first perma- nent element of the modern Reserve, the Medical Reserve Corps ..By 1916, Congress established the Officers Reserve Corps and the Enlisted Reserve Corps, both of which served along the Mexican border against Pancho Villa that same year . For commissaries, the beginning of the modern era began July 1, 1867, when Congress authorized commissary access for both officers and enlisted men as an important nonpay benefit for their service .. Sales commissaries under the auspices of the Army Quartermaster Corps delivered National Archive Photo Soldiers a few miles from the front in France during World War I pick up items at a make-shift commissary to supplement their rations.

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USACAPOC (A)’s Operation Toy Drop delivers paratroopers, toy donations

Donated toys were col- This tenth iteration of the Randy Oler lected by both Army and Air Memorial Operation Toy Drop will mark Force volunteers who then the German’s seventh appearance at the bag, label, and catalog the event, while the Canadians second appear- toys by age group for account- ance and Chilean paratroopers will be ability purposes ..The toys making their debut ..Past allied nation par- are later provided to families ticipation has included Australia, Ireland, in need of a little extra help England, Canada, Romania, Mexico, during the holiday season ..In Poland and Venezuela . the past ten years over 25,000 In 2004, the event was officially renamed toys have been donated and the Randy Oler Memorial Operation given to families . Toy Drop in memory of the project’s “Operation Toy Drop founder, Sgt ..1st Class Randy Oler, former gives paratroopers within USACAPOC (A), HHC, first sergeant, who the airborne community an died in April of the same year while per- opportunity to do what they forming jumpmaster duties ..Oler started love to do…jump out of a Toy Drop in 1998 and led the event every perfectly good airplane while year with plans committed to his memory .. earning a foreign military His dream is executed today by a large award to wear on their dress and diverse team from over ten Army, Air uniform,” said Capt ..Amanda Force and international military units .. Dodd, USACAPOC (A)’s And so his dream lives on .. Operation Toy Drop special projects officer ..“But the bigger picture is how the

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Richard Rose paratroopers here show Pvt. Raina Pangelinan with the 82nd Airborne Division fills out her registration their generosity during the form during Operation Toy Drop 2007 at Fort Bragg/Pope Air Force Base, N.C. holiday season by volun- teering to pay forward toys ORT BRAGG, N.C. — Fort Bragg’s airborne and goodwill not only for Fcommunity demonstrated its generosity military children but also for local-area and holiday spirit by supporting the tenth children .” annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation The lottery, which has become a Toy Drop in December 2007 by collecting highlight of Operation Toy Drop, offers over 2800 toys for deserving children in Fort Bragg and Pope AFB paratroop- the Fort Bragg, N C. ..area . ers, not previously manifested by their Hosted by the Army Reserve’s Civil units, one final chance to win a seat on Affairs and Psychological Operations the next day’s non-tactical jump ..The Command (Airborne), with assistance lottery kicked off Dec ..7, 2007, at Strom from the XVIII Airborne Corps, the Thurmond Complex Pax Shed #3 also 43rd Airlift Wing and the 440th Air Lift known as Green Ramp on Pope AFB Wing at nearby Pope Air Force Base, the while the following day’s jump took place Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy at Sicily Drop Zone on Fort Bragg . Drop is designed to provide joint and “More than 1200 Fort Bragg para- allied airborne operations training, foster troopers will have the opportunity to military camaraderie and spread good jump with either of the allied jump- U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Richard Rose will to military and civilian families at masters team and earn that country’s U.S. Army kevlar helmets were everywhere at Operation Toy Drop 2007 at Fort Bragg/ Pope Air Force Base, N.C. Over 1400 toys the holiday season . airborne wings,” said Dodd . were collected for deserving families in the Fayettville area.

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ESGR: This employer has “ done it right!” Editor’s note: Employers are vital in sup- Ryan added that even though having a porting today’s men and women serving valued employee deployed “…does put a in uniform. The Employer Support to the strain on business the rest of the family bands started a “toy and clothing” program for Guard and Reserve program is a valuable together to make up for that loss. It’s very much the children of Iraq I received packages asset as our Army Reserve Soldiers continue like a ‘Band of Brothers’.” from several CED branches ..I also received serving at home and overseas in support of “We all look out for each other, very much best wishes from the Regional VP, Butch the Global War on Terrorism. Master Sgt. like the military,” he continued. “John has Mistretta, and the company President, John Sookikian, U.S. Army Reserve, shares created a spot and a future for himself with this Dean Burch . the support he received from his employer, company. When you find good people you look “I’ve always felt strongly about supporting Consolidated Electrical Distributors,(CED) out for them.” the military,” said Goss, profit center manager Inc., while being deployed multiple times at the CED, Charleston, S.C. location. “When spanning four years of his seven years of While I was overseas my wife and chil- folks like Mike half to go … I mean these men employment. dren relocated to Charleston, S .C ..Upon my return from Iraq, CED placed me in and women are putting it all on the line for all In 2003 my Reserve unit (1/321 INF) a position in our Charleston branch so of us. We just want them to know that we’ll was called to Active Duty to support the that I could be closer to my kids ..This make sure that their job is safe and waiting for training efforts at Fort Jackson, S C. ..As was extraordinary when you consider that them while they’re gone.” the 1st Sgt ..I was called and told to report both branches only employ 10 - 15 people “Everybody that worked here supported him within two hours of the notification ..I and the fact that my Division manager and if all it took was sending a little Starbucks walked in my boss’ office (Barclay Ryan) supported this even though he had coffee to make him feel at home, we were glad and told him I had to leave within 20 requested that I relocate to Florida for a to do it,” he said. minutes to report ..He had no issues and management position . made sure that everything was in order for When I returned I was given as much my extended stay ..After nine months away After six months in Charleston the time off before returning to work and have I was welcomed back and taken in with 108th Division got orders to go to Iraq .. been given any time I need for personal or open arms ..If this were the last thing that They were going to be performing the medical issues ..I have been given a position was done for me then I would be satisfied same mission that I had been doing for above the one I left and treated by every- with the (recognition) package that we two years and asked if I would go ..I was one here as if I was never gone ..For more give employers ..But it wasn’t! afraid that this would strain my relation- information on the ESGR program, visit ship with my employer but nothing was their website at http://www.esgr.org .. Because of my desire to serve in combat farther from the truth ..My new manager, I put in for a tour in Iraq or Afghanistan .. Mike Goss, wished me well and made sure Four months after I returned to work that everything was in order ..The Division I received orders to go to Iraq ..Barclay Manager, Gary Pike, came up from Florida didn’t even blink an eye but, again, made and along with my old manager (Barclay sure that everything was taken care of for Ryan) they took me to a Carolina football my extended stay ..While overseas the man - game ..They secured box seats for the event agement and employees stayed in contact because they knew how much I enjoyed with me and my family ..They even took Carolina Football . time to send care packages for my troops .. When I contacted them to let them know While overseas my boss, Mike Goss, that I was being extended, they wished me sent ten pounds of Starbuck’s coffee along luck and again made sure everything was with other assorted goodies every two to taken care of for me . four weeks, upon request, to me and my team ..He did this on his own until the “John has high integrity,” said Ryan. Division manager, Gary Pike, found out Master Sgt. John Sookikian “We’re a family owned company and we Master Sgt. John Sookikian, left, poses with an Iraqi Soldier and had him expense it so the company and fellow American Soldier in the Dourya District of Baghdad believe in family values that mirror his ethics would pay for it ..They did this throughout in 2006. Master Sgt. Sookikian was deployed for four out and integrity. How could you not support a the 16 months that I was away ..When I of seven years while employed with Consolidated Electrical guy like that?” Distributors, Inc.

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Vermont recognizes States that have Also Celebrated 100th Anniversary of the Army reserve’s the Army Reserve 100th Anniversary As of 28 MAR 08

California Chula Vista National City Illinois Kansas Minnesota Missisippi

Tom Carney Nebraska Vermont Army Reserve Ambassador John des Groseilliers, watches as Vermont Governor James Douglas signs the Army Reserve 100th Anniversary Proclamation at the Vermont State Capitol in Montpelier, Jan. 28, 2008. Puerto Rico By Linda A. Jeleniewski and Executive Director of Vermont’s Public Affairs Office Employer Support for the Guard and 94th Regional Readiness Command Reserve (ESGR), Jon Copans, a representa- Tennessee ONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont Governor tive from the office of Congressman Peter MJames H ..Douglas signed a Welch (D), Vt ., Michael McHugh, retired proclamation celebrating the 100th Sgt ..Maj ..a representative from the Office Vermont Anniversary of the U .S ..Army Reserve of Vermont Veterans Affairs, the local with Army Reserve Ambassador John State Representative, Lucy Leriche who des Groseilliers, Jan ..28, 2008 in the read the Proclamation, as well as several Virginia governor’s Ceremonial Office here . friends . “The proclamation signing went In commemoration of one hundred well today,” said des Groseilliers ..“Our years of service to the Nation, members Washington Governor, James Douglas was extremely of the Senate have drafted legislation eloquent as he spoke of the Army that is working its way through the halls Reserve .” of Congress to create a Joint Resolution congratulating the Army Reserve and According to des Groseilliers, also wishing them another century of contin- attending were the Chair, Assistant Chair ued support ..

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Ambassador Venditto: Army Reserve Advocate or Carl Venditto, being an Army Venditto worked as an FReserve ambassador is a continuation of educator in the Bristol a lifetime of service . and Middletown school systems in Connecticut, His list of titles and accomplishments serving as a teacher, is long: Educator; Connecticut State principal and assistant Chairman for the Employer Support to superintendent . the Guard and Reserve Committee; 2007 Connecticut Veteran of the Year; member But for a man who rose of the American Legion, Reserve Officers to the rank of colonel in Association, American Red Cross and the the U .S ..Marine Corps, he Marine Corps League . gets a kick out of being an ambassador for the Army Venditto is especially proud to be a Reserve . Marine serving and representing Army Reserve Soldiers ..He served on active duty “My family all served with the Marines from 1952–1956, with in the Army,” he said another 18-month stint in 1985 and 1986 . with a grin ..“But I was a Marine!” But serving as an Army Reserve ambassador is just one of the hats he wears ..Most recently, Venditto has led a project to name Connecticut highways for service- men killed in combat ..It was a project borne of frustration in seeing highways Do You know named for state politicians . “I got personally angry,” Venditto said, your Ambassador? believing that such honors should go to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice Carl M. Venditto for their country . But anger is not a primary motivation Carl M. Venditto Southington, Conn . for Venditto ..His greatest satisfaction, he 860-621-5052 or carl .venditto@cox .net says, is in “making things happen ”. For More Info Business Position In 2007, Gov ..M ..Jodi Rell inducted Venditto into the Connecticut Veterans Ambassador Program. Employer Support to Guard and Reserve Committee. Hall of Fame for his service as an ESGR 2400 Army Pentagon. (ESGR) State Chairman ombudsman and veterans advocate . Arlington, VA 22202. Military Experience Venditto is currently serving his third Fax: 703-601-0839. COL, USMCR (Ret), July 1986 term as an Army Reserve ambassador ..He E-mail:. ambassador@usar .army .mil enjoys attending Welcome Home Warrior- Civilian Education Citizen ceremonies and meeting Soldiers Ambassador Program MST 30; Teacher, Principal; School Administrator and their families . Manager:. In addition to his work with the Army Vonda Chisolm. Community Service Reserve, Venditto helps out at Veterans (703) 601-0844 ESGR; American Legion; Museum of American; AVT Affairs job fairs to help veterans find Coordinator:. employment . Organizations, Clubs, Philanthropies Ms ..Caroline Jones. “I see myself as a referral service,” he ROA; Red Cross; Marine Corps League (703) 601-0871 said ..“I like dealing face-to-face with veterans who have issues .”

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325th Combat Support Hospital Sees Drop in causalities in Iraq

By Janet Boivin innocent bystander in the wrong place at comprises a mix of Iraqi army and police, Nursing Spectrum the wrong time . detainees, Iraqi civilians, or civilians from other countries . A boy’s cry for his mother comes from Instead, he is being held at the hospital the intermediate care ward of the 325th as an insurgent along with three men who The 325th CSH’s sister hospital at Al Combat Support Hospital (CSH) one also are wounded ..They were taken into Asad Air Base in Iraq’s western Anbar morning in late September 2007 at Camp custody together after firing upon U .S .. Province is experiencing a drop in casual- Speicher in Iraq ..The Iraqi child, whom Soldiers outside of this Army base located ties as well ..One year ago Anbar Province U .S ..medical staff estimate is around 11 in Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit . was one of the most violent areas in Iraq . or 12 years old, has a broken left arm and The boy and the men are tucked into “I thought we would have more gunshot wounds to both feet ..His head the end of the long, narrow intermediate- trauma,” says Lt ..Col ..Peggy Hennessy, rests on a colorful pillowcase that might be care ward where they are guarded by four RN, chief nurse of the 325th CSH at Al found in any pediatric ward in the U .S . armed Soldiers who say they do not sym- Asad ..“If this trend continues, we’ll be After almost five years of war in Iraq, pathize with the youngest of the detainees, fortunate .” the presence of children in U .S ..military even if he has just barely entered adoles- The trend is a welcome relief from the hospitals is commonplace ..But according cence . first part of the year when the number of to the U .S ..military, this child was not an The detainees are separated from the dead and wounded Soldiers rose because rest of the patients in the ward by of the infusion of Soldiers into Iraq as part folding privacy screens ..But on the of the military’s counterterrorism “surge” other side of the screens, there are to quell violence around the country ..The surprisingly few U .S ..service members .. casualties from the surge made 2007 the And the few Soldiers who are resting on deadliest year for U .S ..service members the wafer-thin military mattresses have since the war started . non-combat-related complaints . May was the grimmest month in 2007 Indeed, since the 325th CSH, an with 126 deaths ..Since then the number Army Reserve unit from Independence, steadily declined to a low of 38 deaths in Mo ., arrived in Iraq at the beginning October, according to icasualties .org . of September 2007, the number of U .S .. The number of wounded per month has combat dead and wounded per month decreased as well with a peak in June 2007 has dropped significantly and continues of 750 wounded to a low in October 2007 to fall . of 296 . “I am pleasantly surprised we The military attributes the drop in casu- have not seen the level of casualties I alties to the success of the surge and to a expected,” says Lt ..Col ..Christopher movement among Sunni tribal leaders to O’Connell, RN, chief nurse of the 325th cooperate with the U .S ..military instead of CSH at Camp Speicher ..“I’m OK with al-Qaida terrorists . that ”. Lt ..Col ..Judy Fryover, RN, NP, charge O’Connell, who is a flight nurse with nurse of Camp Speicher’s intermediate- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center care ward, says although she has more Mike Milinac in New Hampshire, says about one- 1st. Lt. Robert Hafner, RN, a burn specialist at the University Iraqi patients than U .S ..Soldiers, even that third of the hospital’s census consists of Kansas, helped care for a badly burned Iraqi boy at Al Asad number has decreased ..In her civilian life, Air Base. of U .S ..service members and two-thirds

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Fryover is a clinical nurse with Sparrow Hospital located in Lansing, Mich . The website icasualties .org shows there are fewer Iraqi army, police, and civilians being killed or wounded but the overall numbers are still higher than those for the Americans ..Iraqi civilians still are frequent patients at U .S ..military hospitals .. This is reflected in Al Asad’s 12-bed ICU, in which most of the patients are usually Iraqi army or police, says Hennessy, who works at SSM Health Care in St ..Louis . Recently an 8-year-old Iraqi boy was admitted to the ICU with burns to more than 60% of his body, says Hennessy . First Lt ..Robert Hafner, RN, a staff nurse in the ICU in the 325th CSH and, back home, a nurse in the burn unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center, helped care for the boy and taught the other nurses and medics about advanced burn care ..Unfortunately, the boy died . “Emotionally, it was hard for everyone to care for this patient because many members of the staff have children that age and, in my case, I know what I can do for him in the U .S ., and what we can do here doesn’t come close,” says Hafner .. “They were working really hard to find a place for him to evac to in the states .” Despite the drop in U .S ..casualties, a few Soldiers have died at the 325th CSH at Camp Speicher ..“A Soldier’s death is Mike Milinac without a doubt the hardest thing anyone Capt.Yancy Caruthers,a flight nurse at Al Asad Air Base, sits by a waiting evacuation helicopter. here has to deal with,” O’Connell wrote in a follow-up letter to Nursing Spectrum ..“I Soldiers are admitted to the hospital are The slower pace allowed nine Soldiers to knew these days would come, and I have abdominal pain, renal stones, and mental take a 40-hour class and receive certificates been sharing with my staff, long before we health issues, says Hennessy . in field sanitation, Fryover says . arrived in Iraq, the need to be prepared for it .” The stress of going “outside the wire,” “We also are able to give more Soldiers the military term for leaving secure U .S .. time off to participate in gym activities, Fortunately, no Soldiers have died at bases to travel through Iraqi villages, such as basketball tournaments, 5K runs Al Asad . “takes a toll on front-line Soldiers,” she with prizes, and a flag football tournament, The combat-related trauma being seen says . thereby increasing morale,” she says . in U .S ..troops at both hospitals includes The lower casualty rates help improve The staffs of the 325th CSH in Camp wounds from improvised explosive staff morale and free up time for continued Speicher and Al Asad are hopeful the devices, sniper fire, and small arms fire, training and education, say military nurse numbers of dead and wounded will con- report O’Connell and Hennessy . leaders . tinue to decline — or at least not rise .. Non-combat-related trauma involving “It has given us a chance to refine our But if they start to climb, “we’re here and service members at both of the 325th hos- operations, train our less-experienced we’re ready if needed,” says Hennessy . pitals includes military training accidents Soldiers, and make the hospital ours,” says Editor’s note: This story appeared in and motor vehicle rollovers . O’Connell ..“Our battle rhythm has estab- Nursing Spectrum. Copyright 2007. Gannett At Al Asad, the most common non- lished our daily ebb and flow .” Healthcare Group (www.nurse.com). All rights combat complaints for which Marines or reserved. Used with permission.

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Welcome Home Ceremonies Honor Engineer Soldiers By Maj. Hillary Luton Army Reserve Public Affairs GDEN, Utah — When the news Obroadcasts the latest suicide bombing, terrorist attack or insurgent activities, often flashes of disruption and insecurity rush through our minds ..Rarely do we stop to think about the men and women who work tirelessly to improve the security situation in Iraq . The Soldiers of the 321st Engineer Battalion were honored in three events Feb ..16, 2008, in Boise, Idaho, Feb ..23 in Hayden Lake, Idaho and finally Feb 24 in Ogden, Utah during Welcome Home Warrior-Citizen ceremonies ..The unit was awarded 102 Purple Hearts, 104 Bronze Stars, over 295 Combat Action Badges and 16 medals with valor . During their deployment the unit successfully cleared over 1,000 improvised David Cheney explosive devices (IEDs) ..In addition to SPC Raymond Werner, Cpl. Kelly Grothe, Sgt. Coby Schwab, Cpl. Stephen Shannon, Spec. Ross Cleavenger and Sgt. James Holtom, six improving route security, they built four Soldiers in Task Force Pathfinder, who were killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, are honored during a fallen Soldier ceremony. bridges and supported various construction projects . the region ..“My Soldiers played a huge on point and on mission, demonstrat- Col ..Michael Hoxie, the task force com- role in this process,” said Hoxie . ing their character and dedication to the mander, credits the unit and its mission No unit understands the dedication of overall mission .” with the drop in the level of violence in Soldiers until they are faced with the loss The 321st Engr ..Bn ..returned from Iraq of one of their own ..The in Sept ..2007 after a year long deploy- 321st faced the loss of six ment to the Al Anbar Province ..The unit Soldiers throughout their was the leading element of Task Force deployment, three of which Pathfinder, which included the battalion were lost in one incident .. headquarters and three companies, Co ..C, “Keeping the unit focused 397th Engr ..Bn ., Eau Claire, Wisc ., the after the death of a Soldier 718th Engr ..Co ..and the 362nd Multi- and speaking with the Role Bridge Company, both of Fort family of a fallen Soldier Benning, Ga . [is the most difficult part],” The final ceremony in Ogden was said Hoxie . hosted by LTG Jack Stultz, chief, Army Hoxie did keep them Reserve, who praised the unit for their focused and he commends unwavering dedication during their his subordinate leaders and deployment ..The ceremony honored Soldiers for helping him do Soldiers who received Bronze Stars, it ..“While they grieved,” Army Commendation Medals and Purple

Photo Courtesy: 321st Engr. Bn. said Hoxie, “they stayed Hearts .. The 321st Engr. Bn. patrols in Al Anbar Province, Iraq looking or IEDs.

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Commemorating 100 Years of the Army Reserve he U .S ..Army Reserve is commemorat- stands on the shoulders of generations of munities and employers who enable their Ting its 100th Anniversary throughout Americans who have served over the past service,” said Stultz ..“They deserve our 2008 ..Commands and deployed units 100 years ”. gratitude for their patriotic sacrifice and throughout the United States and the The Army Reserve Soldiers have support for our Soldiers and veterans .” world are observing the Army Reserve answered their call to duty, serving with The Army Reserve’s Centennial is Centennial by hosting events as small and excellence and honor in every major a remarkable milestone from which to celebratory as a birthday cake cutting, to military and humanitarian engagement remember and recognize the Soldiers solemn memorial services, to occasions as of the past 100 years, playing integral who came before us — and to thank our large as base open houses . roles in World War I, World War II, Veterans, their Families, communities and Communities across the United States Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, Panama, employers for their indispensible support . will be helping focus attention on the the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, What began as a small medical corps service and sacrifice of Army Reserve Kosovo, the Iraq War and the Global War on April 23rd, 1908 turned out to be Soldiers and Veterans at Memorial Day on Terrorism . an incredibly successful force that has and Veterans Day services, in parades “As we consider the rich 100-year ensured our security for 100 years, and has and ceremonies, sporting events, history of the Army Reserve, we have to never been stronger — thanks to today’s state fairs, and recognition from busi - always remember that our Soldiers are able Warrior-Citizens ..That’s a legacy worth nesses and chambers of commerce .. to serve because they have Families, com- commemorating .. The Anniversary will also be observed through proclamations by cities and states, and the U .S ..Congress . The Army Reserve’s Centennial year recently kicked-off in grand fashion with Recognition at the Memorial Day Concert on a re-enlistment ceremony for 100 Army Reserve Soldiers stationed in Iraq and the National Mall, National Hot Rod Association Kuwait ..The event, presided over by General David Petraeus in Baghdad, Iraq, and NASCAR events, Major League Baseball underscored the commitment of today’s Warrior-Citizens; choosing to extend their games, Fourth of July Celebrations, Balloon service to their country while in-theater, and when they are most needed . festivals and state fairs are among the many On its 100th birthday — April 23rd, 2008 — the Army Reserve will commemo- events and observances that have been rate its centennial with a series of events in Washington, D .C ...These national events planned throughout 2008. will include a re-enlistment ceremony for 100 Army Reserve Soldiers from all 50 states at the U .S ..Capitol, a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Check for 100th and a 100th Anniversary dinner . “Today’s Army Reserve plays a vital role Anniversary events in our national security and serves as the skill-rich backbone of the world’s greatest in your area by visiting Army,” said Lt ..Gen ..Jack Stultz, Chief, Army Reserve ..“As proud as we are of our www.ArmyReserve100th.org. current accomplishments and capabilities, we can never forget that our generation

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SGT Kevin D. Akins SPC Kendell K. Frederick SSG Charles A. Kiser SGT Pierre A. Raymond MAJ Stuart M. Anderson CPT Brian S. Freeman SGT Charles B. Kitowski, II SPC Brandon M. Read SGT Roberto Arizola, Jr. SGT Bryan L. Freeman SPC Adam L. Knox SGT Regina C. Reali SPC Farid El Azzouzi SGT David T. Friedrich SGT Elmer C. Krause SPC Ramon Reyes-Torres CSM Edward C. Barnhill SPC Luke P. Frist SSG Mark A. Lawton SGT Lawrence A. Roukey SGT Gregory A. Belanger SPC Nichole M. Frye SSG Wilgene T. Lieto 1SG Carlos N. Saenz CPL Mark A. Bibby SFC Dan H. Gabrielson CPT Shane R. Mahaffee SSG Cameron B. Sarno SFC Kelly M. L. Bolor SGT David J. Goldberg SFC Curtis Mancini SGT Joshua A. Schmit SPC Roy Buckley PFC Gregory R. Goodrich SGT Myla L. Maravillosa SSG Coby G. Schwab SPC Dustin R. Brisky PFC Devin J. Grella SSG Stephen G. Martin SGT Danton K. Seitsinger MSG Thomas L. Bruner CPL Kelly B. Grothe SGT Arthur S. Mastrapa CPL Stephen D. Shannon SPC Charles E. Bush, Jr. SPC David E. Hall SSG Matthew Maupin LTC Anthony L. Sherman CPT Paul J. Cassidy SPC Robert E. Hall, Jr. SSG James D. McNaughton SSG Russell K. Shoemaker PFC Thomas D. Caughman SGT James W. Harlan SFC Otie J. McVey SSG Benjamin J. Slaven SPC Doron N. Chan SSG Darren Harmon 1SG Tobias C. Meister LTC Albert E. Smart SPC Jonathan M. Cheatham SGT Kenneth W. Harris, Jr. SPC Christopher T. Monroe MAJ Charles R. Soltes, Jr. SSG Thomas W. Christensen SFC David A. Hartman SGT Melvin Y. Mora SPC Carla J. Stewart SSG Lillian L. Clamens SSG Stephen C. Hattamer SSG Richard L. Morgan, Jr. SFC Douglas C. Stone SGT Ross A. Clevenger SSG Robert Hernandez SFC Lawrence E. Morrison SGT Michael R. Sturdivant 1SG Christopher D. Coffin SGT Edward R. Heselton SSG James D. Mowris SGT Joshua A. Terando SPC Gavin J. Colburn SPC Julie R. Hickey MAJ Michael L. Mundell SGT Jarret B. Thompson SGT James S. Collins, Jr. SGT Anton J. Hiett SGT Rodney A. Murray SSG Frank F. Tiai MAJ David S. Connolly SPC Joshua L. Hill SGT Paul T. Nakamura SGT Tina S. Time SSG Todd R. Cornell SPC Benjamin D. Hoeffner MSG Robb G. Needham SFC John J. Tobiason SPC Richard M. Crane SGT James J. Holtom SPC Charles L. Neeley SPC Brandon Tobler LTC Terrence K. Crowe SFC Merideth L. Howard SSG Clinton T. Newman SGT Nicholas A. Tomko SSG Donald N. Davis SPC Bert E. Hoyer SPC Allen D. Nolan SPC Juan M. Torres SPC Lauro G. DeLeon, Jr. CPL Rachael L. Hugo SGT Joseph C. Nurre SPC Teodoro Torres SFC Robert V. Derenda SGT Eric R. Hull SGT Larry W. Pankey, Jr. SSG Nathan J. Vacho SSG Christopher W. Dill CPL Derence W. Jack SGT Evan S. Parker SGT Thomas E. Vandling, Jr. SGT Catalin D. Dima SPC Dustin C. Jackson SSG Robert J. Paul SGT Jose M. Velez SPC Jeremy M. Dimaranan CPT Benjamin D. Jansky SSG Ronald L. Paulsen SGT Chirasak Vidhyarkorn SSG Carlos Dominguez SPC Joseph A. Jeffries SPC Samuel F. Pearson SGT Brandon L. Wallace SSG Richard S. Eaton, Jr. MAJ Alan R Johnson PFC Luis A. Perez SGT Brad A. Wentz SGT Gary A. Eckert, Jr. SPC Robert T. Johnson SSG James L. Pettaway PFC Raymond M. Werner SSG Jeffrey J. Farrow SFC Matthew R. Kading LTC Mark P. Phelan SGT Cheyenne C. Willey MAJ Gregory J. Fester MSG Paul D. Karpowich SGT Jaror C. Puello-Coronado LTC Peter E. Winston SGT Nathan R. Field LTC Paul W. Kimbrough SGT Miguel A. Ramos SGT James Witkowski SSG Ryan D. Foraker SPC Adam G. Kinser SSG Joseph R. Ray LTC Thomas A. Wren

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By Spec. Mekonya Cheefus Grigsby, director of the ARWFAC both Sponsors and coordinators are mobilized Army Reserve Public Affairs hosted the ceremony . reserved officers and NCOs who have been hand picked by Grigsby and his staff . ORT MCPHERSON, Ga. — In support “The United States Army has priori- Fof ongoing missions in Iraq and tized families this year ..It’s about taking “There is a keen connection between Afghanistan, deployments for Soldiers care of them and we do that by first taking the sponsors and the people who call in have become longer in duration and more care of Soldiers,” said Macdonald . because they’ve been there and have been frequent while constantly wearing on through it,” said Lt ..Col ..Delois Watson- The Army Reserve Warrior and the families that provide endless support Brown, WFAC chief of training and Family Assistance Center provides Army from the rear ..Re-deployment proves to knowledge management ..“We’ve selected Reserve Soldiers, families, retirees and be an equally difficult time when faced individuals with a unique heart and units a single source for the resolution of with problems ranging anywhere from mindset for serving others .” situations related to medical issues and readjustment to civilian life to medical education on programs available to Army Procedures for sponsors and coordi- rehabilitation . Reserve Soldiers . nators require them to make the initial It is during these critical times when a “The Warrior Family and Assistance contact to a Soldier who has returned Soldier can slip through the cracks while Center has stood up to serve a need for home from deployment ..When calls attempting to navigate through the endless Army Reserve Soldiers, families, and come in through the hotline, questions layers of red tape that stand between him retirees and that means to ensure that no are answered or if necessary, a sponsor is and the assistance he needs ..The Army Soldier falls through the cracks and if they assigned for more follow-up ..Sequentially, Reserve Warrior and Family Assistance have fallen through the cracks, we get every month, the assigned sponsor calls Center (ARWFAC) can help and will do them out,” said Grigsby . back to provide more assistance until ser- whatever it takes to get the job done . vices are no longer needed . Army Reserve Soldiers are not the only On Nov ..20, 2007, the ARWFAC held “We provide our help until they no ones who can take advantage of the ser- a ribbon cutting ceremony to symbolize longer need our services, until we hear, vices provided at the ARWFAC ..Inactive the official opening of its facility to the ‘thank you so much, you can help some Ready Reserve members, retirees, family - public ..Soldiers, family members, and body else now .’ You may have heard members, national guard, active compo- DOD civilians alike were in attendance some veterans say that they were forgot nent, Coast Guard, public health service - at this ground breaking event ..Brig ..Gen .. members are all welcome to use the center ten about ..Our calls let them know that Anne Macdonald, chief of staff, U .S .. for assistance . we remember you, we appreciate you, Army Reserve Command, and Col ..Scotty we understand and we’re here,” said “We may not be the right one Watson-Brown . who has the answer, but we will have a warm hand over to someone The ARWFAC staff will also be train- who does know and who cares ing civilian volunteers and Soldiers down enough about them to follow up to the unit level in order to suggest local later with a phone call ..We can resources and programs to those in need .. utilize the military one source if These individuals will be equipped with needed ..We will not turn anybody resource information ..They will have away,” said Grigsby . sponsors or coordinators assigned to them whom they can call whenever a unique set There are approximately 1300 of circumstances arise ..The goal is to make wounded Soldiers in transition tra- sure that the Soldier that is calling in, or versing through the medical support the family member of retiree, has someone system either in medical treatment local (to them) that can know about the facilities, warrior transition units services in that area and help them quicker or community-based health care than they’re calling out of state . organizations ..The objective is to “It’s a myriad of out pouring of assign an Army Reserve sponsor to . Sgt. Maj. Troy Falardeau generosity out there .” Their website is each one of those Soldiers, accord- . Brig. Gen. Anne Macdonald, chief of staff, U.S. Army Reserve Command, www.arfp.org/WFAC .. and Col. Scotty Grigsby, director of the Army Reserve Warrior and Family ing to Grigsby . Assistance Center, cut the ribbon of the new center at Fort McPherson, Ga.

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