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9 The United States is at war in 2004. 9 The so-called “strategic pause,” if there ever was one, ended on 11 September 2001. 9 The Army is moving from the Current to Future Force . . . NOW. 9 Sustained Operations are the norm, not the exception. www.ausa.org Slide 1 Facing Page 2

9 The Army has a nonnegotiable contract to fight and win the nation’s wars … whether they involve executing the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) or providing security and stability in the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. 9 Each starburst on this globe represents where the Army has had Soldiers since 11 September 2001. From the west coast to the Ivory Coast, from Iraq to the Philippines, the United States Army has forces deployed globally and engaged locally. 9 There are no “time-outs” from readiness. DeploymentsDeployments SinceSince 9-119-11

A Smaller Force But Much More Engaged— We Are an Army at War!

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9 322,607 Soldiers deployed worldwide. 9 Approximately 28% of reserve component (RC) is deployed or mobilized overseas and in the United States. 9 Before 9-11, about 37,000 on short tours. 9 Now, in excess of 145,000 on short tours. (~4x) 9 26 of the 33 active component (AC) Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) will be deployed in FY 2004. 9 16 of 46 enhanced Separate Brigades (eSBs) (National Guard) deployed in FY 2003 (21 eSB battalions since 9-11). 9 Largest RC mobilization since World War II. 9 AC and RC deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan extended for up to 12 months. ArmyArmy GlobalGlobal CommitmentsCommitments

322,607 soldiers deployed in 120 countries (approx. 215,000 on unaccompanied tours)

KFOR/ SFOR SOUTH KOREA NOBLE EAGLE 3,700 Soldiers 31,460 Soldiers (29,590 soldiers 20,400 Soldiers on unaccompanied tours)

CTC ROTATIONS NTC/JRTC OEF-A & ANA 8,000 Soldiers 11,000 Soldiers OEF - PHILLIPPINES 300 Soldiers JTF-BRAVO JTF-GTMO 1,500 Soldiers 320 Soldiers MFO OIF / SWA OTHER OPERATIONS 700 Soldiers 144,240 Soldiers & EXERCISES 2,900 Soldiers

- 26 of 33 (73%) AC BCTs will deploy overseas in FY04 - 20 of 45 (44%) eSB battalions will deploy overseas in FY04 ARMYARMY PERSONNELPERSONNEL STRENGTHSTRENGTH ComponentComponentEndstrength Currently Currently DeployedDeployed LEGEND ActiveActive 500,000* 500,000* 176,424 176,424 AC = Active Component KFOR = Forces of Kosovo ANA = Afghan National Army MFO = Multinational Force & Observers ReserveReserve 205,000 205,000 60,889 60,889 BCT = Brigade Combat Team NTC = National Training Center CTC = Combat Training Center OEF = Operation Enduring Freedom NationalNational GuardGuard 352,000 352,000 85,29485,294 eSB = enhanced Separate Brigade OEF-A = Operation Enduring Freedom FY = Fiscal Year Afghanistan TotalTotal 1,057,0001,057,000 322,607322,607 GTMO = Guantanamo OIF = Operation Iraqi Freedom JRTC = Joint Readiness Training Center SFOR = Bosnia Stabilization Force ** DueDue toto stop-lossstop-loss programprogram As of 29 Dec 03 JTF = Joint Task Force SWA = Southwest Asia

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9 Title 10 US Code outlines the Army’s enduring responsibility as conducting prompt and sustained combat on land. 9 The new security environment has triggered a renewed emphasis on the “prompt” (agile, adaptive, quick to respond, capable of early conflict resolution) without neglecting the sustainment piece (Army, other services, agencies, non- governmental agencies). U.S.U.S. Army’sArmy’s EnduringEnduring RoleRole

Title 10 U.S. Code

“. . . Conduct Prompt and Sustained Combat on Land.”

9 Agile Strategically 9 Army 9 Quick to Respond Agile 9 Sister Services 9 Adaptable 9 Combatant & Commanders 9 Capable of Early Conflict Resolution Adaptive 9 Other Government & Nongovernmental Agencies

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9 When General Schoomaker took the helm in August 2003, America was at war and Army was continuing to transform. 9 Became clear that Army had to change Current Force to meet ongoing requirements (i.e., GWOT). 9 Also become apparent that the Current Force had to be strategically agile and adaptive, or risk not being relevant to the Joint Force. 9 To increase relevance and readiness of its operating and institutional forces, Army relies on two core competencies: 9 Train and equip Soldiers and grow leaders; 9 Provide relevant and ready landpower capabilities to combatant commanders and the joint team. DeliveringDelivering a Relevant and Ready ArmyArmy toto thethe NationNation 9 Relevant 9 Ready Strategic Environment

CAPABILITY End: Strategic Pause

General Peter J. Schoomaker TIME Chief of Staff, Army 9 Balance Army Core Competencies and Capabilities: 99 Train and Equip Soldiers and Grow Leaders 99 Provide Relevant and Ready Landpower Capability to the Combatant Commander and the Joint Team

Current Future

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9 To rapidly effect necessary and positive change, the Chief of Staff established 17 immediate focus areas with specific guidance for planning, preparation and execution of action. 9 Focus areas collectively are the engine to effect change. 9 Overall thrust is to provide even more “relevant and ready” landpower to combatant commanders. 9 Let us never forget—the Soldier is the centerpiece. ArmyArmy FocusFocus AreasAreas 9 The Soldier 9 The “Bench” 9 Army Aviation 9 Leader Development and Education 9 Combat Training Centers / Battle Command Training Program 9 Joint and Expeditionary Mindset 9 Modularity 9 Force Stabilization 9 AC/RC Balance 9 The Network 9 Current to Future Force 9 Actionable Intelligence 9 Focused Logistics 9 Installations as Flagships 9 Resource Processes 9 Strategic Communications 9 Authorities, Responsibilities and Accountability

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9 The process of reexamining and challenging basic institutional assumptions, paradigms and procedures has placed the U.S. Army on a path to a more relevant and ready force—a Joint and Expeditionary Army with campaign capabilities. 9 Let’s highlight a few of the focus areas and the direction they are headed. CoreCore CompetenciesCompetencies andand FocusFocus AreasAreas

9 Relevant Strategic Environment 9 Ready

CAPABILITY End: Strategic Pause

TIME

Train and Equip Soldiers and Grow Leaders Provide Relevant and Ready Landpower Capability to 9 The Soldier the Combatant Commander and the Joint Team 9 The “Bench” 9 Joint and Expeditionary Mindset 9 Army Aviation 9 Modularity 9 Leader Development and Education 9 Force Stabilization 9 Combat Training Centers / Battle Command Training 9 AC/RC Balance Program 9 The Network 9 Current to Future Force 9 Actionable Intelligence 9 Focused Logistics Enable the Force

9 Installations as Flagships 9 Resource Processes 9 Strategic Communications 9 Authorities, Responsibilities, and Accountability

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9 CSA told reporters at AUSA Annual Meeting (October 2003): “Everybody in the U.S. Army [has to] be a Soldier first.” 9 Army is refocusing emphasis on modernizing the equipment of all “deployed or about-to-be-deployed” Soldiers regardless of component. 9 Lessons learned from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have yielded new tactics, techniques and procedures as well as renewed emphasis on basic combat skills for all Soldiers, regardless of MOS. 9 Warrior Ethos refers to the professional attitude and belief that characterize the American Soldier. FocusFocus Area:Area: TheThe SoldierSoldier Initial Guidance Flexible, adaptive and competent Soldiers comprising the Army’s Warrior Culture—organized, trained and equipped to fight wars and win peace. Families and DA Civilians are integral components of the Army.

Essential Tasks

9 Synchronize efforts to modernize all deploying/to-be-deployed Soldiers, civilians and contractors. 9 Determine requirements for individual/collective training. 9 Inculcate Warrior Ethos in all Soldiers; focus on developing situation awareness before, during and after deployments.

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9 At its core, the Warrior Ethos is grounded in the refusal to accept failure … makes clear that military service is much more than just another job, that it concerns character, shaping who a person is and what he/she does … and is clearly linked to Army values. 9 The Warrior Ethos requires unrelenting and consistent determination to do what is right and to do it with pride, both in war and in military operations other than war. 9 Simply stated, it is: We won’t quit; we will never accept defeat, and we will never leave a fallen comrade. Soldier’sSoldier’s CreedCreed

I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. WARRIORWARRIORI will never quit. ETHOSETHOS I will never leave a fallen comrade. I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself. I am an expert and I am a professional. I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat. I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life. I am an American Soldier.

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9 A joint and expeditionary mindset is an attitude and a culture and infuses a spirit of joint interdependence (the ability to work as a integrated team, depending on one another for the unique capabilities that each service provides) across all doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leader development and education, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) activities. 9 Army will: 9 Review training requirements, traditional relationships and developmental and institutional programs that must change. 9 Develop an action plan to establish the mindset through changed behavior. 9 Propose a new logistical concept. FocusFocus Area:Area: JointJoint andand ExpeditionaryExpeditionary MindsetMindset Initial Guidance

Mindset that embraces requirements for modular, capabilities-based Army forces to achieve joint interdependence in support of combatant commander requirements.

Essential Tasks 9 White Paper: “Campaign Quality Army with a Joint and Expeditionary Mindset.” 9 Action Plan to change mindset through demonstrated behaviors.

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9 Currently each time Army deploys a BCT of infantry or armor, it augments with pieces of other units—artillery, military intelligence, signal, logistics, for example. Eventually it has deployed all of its brigades but still has many elements of units not required for mission employment. 9 The six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams (SBCTs) are an excellent example; one of them is in Iraq now. 9 Near Term: 9 Pilot program with 3d ID and 101st to redesign division—four or five brigades vice three. 9 Remaining AC/RC organizations reorganized in concert with their unit rotation (deployment). FocusFocus Area:Area: ModularityModularity Initial Guidance Modular, capabilities-based unit designs that enable greater capacity for rapid packaging and responsive, sustained employment to provide relevant and ready forces to support combatant commanders. Essential Tasks 9 Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) established as the basic maneuver module for Army forces. 9 Modular nonmaneuver Units of Action (UAs) developed. 9 Division and Corps HQs redesigned with inherent joint capabilities to employ capabilities-based BCTs. 9 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) and 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Experiments – 3ID(M) reorganized within existing resources NLT early 2004; 101st reorganization synchronized with unit rotations. 9 Remaining active component (AC) divisions, echelons above division (EAD)/echelons above corps (EAC) and Army National Guard enhanced Separate Brigades (eSBs) reorganized in concert with unit rotations.

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9 Transformation is not just focusing on the Future Force but also changing the Current Force as necessary to continually provide more relevant and ready forces. 9 Current Force is the operational Army of today. It is organized, trained and equipped to conduct operations as part of the Joint Force. 9 The Future Force is the operational force the Army continually seeks to become. 9 The Army will accelerate implementation of select Future Force capabilities to: 9 Enable enhancements of the Current Force. 9 Improve implementation of lessons learned. 9 Extend application of proven ideas into future. FocusFocus Area:Area: CurrentCurrent toto FutureFuture ForceForce Initial Guidance Army Transformation framed within context of constant change. Relevant and ready Current and Future Forces organized, trained and equipped for joint, interagency and multinational full-spectrum operations. Accelerated fielding of select Future Force capabilities to enhance effectiveness of Current Force.

Essential Tasks

9 Develop process to bring forward capabilities from the Future to the Current Force. 9 Synchronize key Army Plans. 9 Synchronize Army, joint and combined operational concepts. Develop a plan to embed Army Transformation within Joint Transformation. 9 Provide input to Headquarters to synchronize Program Objective Memorandum (POM) 06-11 with key Army plans/actions.

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The Goal: 9 Fully networked Battle Command capabilities bridge from Current to Future Force. 9 Bring forward to Current Force those technologies that can be made available now while retaining the best of current capabilities. EvolvingEvolving ArmyArmy TransformationTransformation

Fully Networked Battle Command capabilities bridge from the Current to Future Force and enable interdependent network-centric warfare.

Current Future

Increasingly: ¾ Integrated Accelerated Enhanced ¾ Expeditionary Development and Fielding of Capabilities ¾ Networked DOTMLPF Solutions ¾ Decentralized ¾ Adaptable ¾ Decision Superior ¾ Lethal

Characteristics of Army Transformation— Responsiveness; Deployability; Agility, Versatility; Lethality; Survivability; and Sustainability— fully support Future Joint Force attributes. DOTMLPF: (Doctrine; Organization; Training; Materiel; Leadership and education; Personnel; Facilities)

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9 CSA wants to ensure that the Army is a force that is trained and ready to fight rapidly and for the long haul when required. 9 At the heart are the core competencies with the Soldier at the center (to enable). 9 The Army must become totally integrated with the joint team (joint and expeditionary mindset) as it sends trained and ready forces to combatant commanders (the lens). 9 This force must be able to close with and destroy the enemy rapidly and strategically over long distances (strategically agile and adaptive). TheThe ArmyArmy PlanPlan –– Focus Focus AreasAreas

What is main purpose for all this effort? . . . to organize, equip and train forces for the conduct of prompt and sustained combat operations on land. To Enable

CORE THE SOLDIER Lens

JOINT AND EXPEDITIONARY MINDSET Integrating Mechanism

Current Future • Joint and Expeditionary Mindset • Modularity • Force Stabilization • AC/RC Balance Current to Future Force • The Soldier • Flagship Installations • The “Bench” • Resource Processes • Army Aviation Battle Command ... “Bridge” • Strategic Communications • Leader Development (The Network) • Authorities, • CTCs/BCTPs Responsibilities and •Actionable Intelligence Focused Logistics Accountability

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9 Wherever the United States has a presence, you will find a Soldier who lives by this creed and the Warrior Ethos. 9 General officer-led groups are working each focus area. At the end of the day, the Army wants to forge an unbeatable team for today and the future. 9 The Army is moving towards being a more relevant and ready force—a Joint and Expeditionary Army with campaign capabilities. Soldier’sSoldier’s CreedCreed

I am an American Soldier. I am a Warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I always maintain my arms, my equipment and myself. I am an expert and I am a professional. I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat. I am a guardian of freedom and the American way of life. I am an American Soldier.

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9 AUSA fully supports General Schoomaker’s vision and his approach. We continue to speak out on these issues:

9 Pay 9 Transformation & Modernization of the Force 9 Close the gap (military and federal civilians) 9 Current Force – maintain its readiness and its 9 Pay-table reform (reward leadership recapitalization responsibility/experience) 9 Stryker brigades – fund six brigades 9 Retiree Issues 9 Future Force & Future Combat Systems 9 Concurrent receipt (full retired and disability 9 Science and technology – fund the program pay) 9 Endstrength & Manning 9 Increase SBP annuity to 55% at age 62 9 Fill 100% of Army National Guard and Army 9 Implement paid-up SBP in FY 2004 Reserve full-time manning positions 9 Family Issues 9 10-15% endstrength increase 9 In-state tuition for spouses and college-age 9 Robust recruiting and retention children 9 Readiness 9 Spouse employment 9 Defense spending = 3.5-4% of Gross 9 Health Care (AC/RC) Domestic Product (GDP) 9 Easy access to quality care and prescriptions 9 Spare parts – no shortages 9 Increased Medicare reimbursement rates 9 Facilities/utilities – fully funded 9 Hassle-free claims processing/no out-of-pocket 9 Operations & maintenance funds for all expenses missions of AC & RC 9 Housing 9 Training dollars 9 Additional funding (build new and repair 9 Aviation restructure and revitalization existing) 9 Innovative programs (public/private partnerships) TheThe SoldierSoldier isis thethe CenterpieceCenterpiece

Association of the United States Army (AUSA)

Voice for the Army…Support for the Soldier

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