200 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL organizations of the Department of the direction of the Secretary of the Army, Army; and supervises the members and organization —perform such other duties not of the Army and performs the duties otherwise assigned by law as may be prescribed for him by the National prescribed by the Secretary of the Army. Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401) and Chief of Staff The Chief of Staff is the other laws. He is directly responsible to principal military adviser to the Secretary the Secretary of the Army for the of the Army and is charged by him with efficiency of the Army, its state of the planning, development, execution, preparation for military operations, and review, and analysis of the Army plans therefor. programs. The Chief of Staff, under the

Department of the Army Program Areas

Military Operations and Plans This control, welfare and morale, promotion, area includes: determination of retention, and separation; military requirements and priorities for, and the compensation, transportation, and travel employment of, Army forces strategy entitlements; the personnel aspects of formation; mid-range, long-range, and military construction and housing regional strategy application; arms management; research and development control, negotiation, and disarmament; related to training personnel, manpower national security affairs; joint service systems, and human factors; and matters; net assessment; politico-military management of civilian personnel affairs; force mobilization and training. demobilization; force planning, Reserve Components This area programming structuring, development, includes: management of individual and analysis and management; operational unit readiness and mobilization for readiness; overall roles and missions; Reserve Components, comprised of the collective security; individual and unit Army National Guard and the U.S. Army training; psychological operations; Reserve. unconventional warfare; Intelligence This area includes: counterterrorism; operations security; management of Army intelligence and signal security; military aspects of space and sea; special plans; table of counterintelligence activities, personnel, equipment development and approval; equipment, systems, and organizations; electronic warfare; nuclear and chemical Army cryptology, topography, and matters; civil affairs; military support of meteorology; coordination of Army civil defense; civil disturbance; domestic requirements for mapping, charting, and actions; audiovisual activities; command geodesy; and Army industrial security. and control; automation and Management-Comptrollership This communications programs and activities; area includes: review and analysis of management of the program for law Army programs and major Army enforcement, correction and crime commands; management information prevention for military members of the systems in the financial area, progress Army; and physical security. and statistical reporting, and reports Personnel This area includes: control; financial management, management of military and civilian budgeting, finance and accounting, cost personnel for overall integrated support analysis, economic analysis, military pay of the Army, including policies and and allowances, resource management, programs for manpower utilization and productivity and value standards, allocation and documentation, improvement; regulatory policies and career development, equal opportunity, programs pertaining to the overall leadership, alcohol and drug abuse management of the Army; and legislative DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 201 policies and programs pertaining to reservoirs, levees, harbors, waterways, appropriation acts affecting the Army. locks, and many other types of Research, Development, and Materiel structures. These works provide flood Acquisition This area includes: protection for cities and major river management of Army research, valleys, reduce the cost of transportation, development and materiel acquisition; supply water for municipal and industrial planning, programming, budgeting and use, generate hydroelectric power, execution for the acquisition of materiel provide recreational opportunities for obtained by the procurement vast numbers of people, regulate the appropriations for the Army; materiel life rivers for many purposes including the cycle management from concept phase improvement of water quality, protect through acquisition; and international the shores of oceans and lakes, and acquisition programs. provide other types of benefits. Planning Information Management This area assistance is also provided to States and includes: automation, communications, other non-Federal entities for the audiovisual, records management, comprehensive management of water publications, and information resources, including pollution abatement management. works. In addition, through the Civil Logistics This area includes: Works Program the Federal Government management of Department of the Army protects the navigable waters of the logistical activities for the movement and United States under legislation maintenance of forces; logistical empowering the Secretary of the Army to planning and support of Army and joint prohibit activities that would reduce the service operations; materiel and supply value of such waters to the Nation. management and maintenance; security Medical This area includes: assistance; transportation; and Army management of health services for the interservice supply operations. Army and, as directed for other services, Engineering This area includes: agencies, and organizations; health management of Army engineering, standards for Army personnel; health construction, installations, family professional education and training; housing, real estate, facilities career management authority over requirements and stationing, and real commissioned and warrant officer property maintenance activities; personnel of the Army Medical environmental preservation and Department; medical research, materiel improvement activities; applicable development, testing and evaluation; research and development activities for policies concerning health aspects of engineer missions to include Army environmental programs and environmental sciences; Army prevention of disease; and planning, topographic and military geographic programming, and budgeting for Army- information activities; and engineer wide health services. aspects of Army strategic and operational Inspection This area includes: plans. management of inquiries, inspections, Civil Functions Civil functions of the and reports on matters affecting the Department of the Army include the performance of mission and the state of Civil Works Program, the administration discipline, efficiency, economy, and of Arlington and Soldiers’ Home morale of the Department of the Army. National Cemeteries, and other related Religious This area includes: matters. The Army’s Civil Works management of religious and moral Program, a responsibility of the Corps of leadership and chaplain support Engineers under the direction and activities Armywide; religious supervision of the Secretary of the Army, ministrations, religious education, dates back to 1824 and is the Nation’s pastoral care, and counseling for Army major Federal water resources military personnel; liaison with the development activity and involves ecclesiastical agencies; chapel engineering works such as major dams, construction requirements and design 202 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL approval; and career management of military commissions; liaison service clergymen serving in the Chaplains with the Department of Justice and other Branch. Federal and State agencies on matters Legal This area includes: legal advisory connected with litigation and legal services provided for all military proceedings concerning the Army; and personnel and agencies of the Army; career management of Judge Advocate review and take final action as designee General’s Corps officers. of the Secretary of the Army on Public Affairs This area includes: complaints of wrongs by service public information, command personnel submitted under the Uniform information, and community relations Code of Military Justice; administration of military justice and civil law matters services and preparation of information pertaining to the Army; administration of plans and programs in support of Army Army claims and legal assistance basic plans and programs. services; operation of the legal system of History This area includes: advisory appellate reviews of court-martial and coordination service provided on records as provided by the Uniform historical matters, including historical Code of Military Justice; general court- properties; formulation and execution of martial and real property records the Army Historical Program; and custodianship; records administration of preparation and publication of histories proceedings of courts of inquiry and required by the Army.

Major Army Commands

United States Army Forces Command the United States Army Reserve, plan for The Commanding General, United States mobilization, coordinate domestic Army Forces Command, commands all emergencies, and exercise training assigned active Army forces in the supervision over the Army National continental United States and the Guard. The five Army areas are as Continental United States Armies, and follows: assigned United States Army Reserve First United States Army (Headquarters, Fort Troop Program Units in the continental George G. Meade, MD)—Connecticut, Delaware, United States and Puerto Rico. He also the District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, commands those subordinate Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, commands, installations, and activities Virginia, and West Virginia. assigned by Headquarters, Department Second United States Army (Headquarters, Fort of the Army, and, as directed, provides Gillem, GA)—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, administrative and logistical support Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto through his subordinate installation Rico, South Carolina, and Tennessee. commanders to other Department of the Third United States Army (Headquarters, Fort Army, Department of Defense, or other McPherson, GA). Fifth United States Army (Headquarters, Fort Sam Government agencies. He also serves as Houston, TX)—Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, the Commander in Chief, Forces Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Command, a specified command, and as Texas. the Commander in Chief, Army Forces Sixth United States Army (Headquarters, Presidio Atlantic Command, the Army component of San Francisco, CA)—Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North of the United States Atlantic Command, Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, a unified command. Washington, and Wyoming. The Commanding General of each of For further information, call 404–669–5607. the Continental United States Armies has the primary mission, under the United States Army Training and Commanding General, United States Doctrine Command The Commanding Army Forces Command, to command General, United States Army Training