Serving Commissioned, Non-Commissioned and Warrant Officers www.roa.org Winter 2015 PREPARED FOR CHANGE Chiefs Report on the State of the Reserves RESERVE STRENGTH RESERVE LIFE INSIDE: • RESERVE, GUARD IN THE FIGHT TO CONTAIN EBOLA • INNOVATIVE READINESS TRAINING: THIS IS NOT A DRILL • SURGEON, SHOOTER, SOLDIER Right Place, Right Time. The mission of the United States Guard and Reserves is to be there when we need them. Leidos is proud to be there when they need us through our support of the Reserves Officers Association. leidos.com © Leidos. All rights reserved. T HE O FFICER • Volume XCI, No.1 • WINTER 2015 FEATURES NO TIME TO LOSE ______________________________________________ 16 P. 34 Within 24 hours of President Barack Obama announcing the United States’ commitment to fight the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, Reservists were en route to Liberia. Serving Commissioned, Non-Commissioned and Warrant Officers By Ann Peru Knabe www.roa.org Winter 2015 PREPARED FOR CHANGE Chiefs Report on the State of the Reserves SURGEON, SHOOTER, SOLDIER __________________________________ 22 Lieutenant Colonel J. Cletus Paumier is an orthopedic surgeon, a rifle marksman, and a U.S. Army Reserve officer. Whether in scrubs, at the range, or in uniform, he applies the same philosophy—and intensity—to all three roles. By SFC Michel Sauret INSIDE: • RESERVE, GUARD IN THE FIGHT TO CONTAIN EBOLA • INNOVATIVE READINESS TRAINING: THIS IS NOT A DRILL • SURGEON, SHOOTER, SOLDIER RESERVE STRENGTH RESERVE LIFE THIS IS NOT A DRILL _____________________________________________ 28 Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) allows Reserve Component units to hone their wartime readiness through hands-on training while simultaneously providing quality PREPARED FOR CHANGE services to communities throughout the United States. Chiefs Report on the State Edited by Pat Curry of the Reserves In our annual State of the Reserves issue, Reserve Component leaders share the status of their forces, their achievements NATIONAL SECURITY over more than a decade of deployment, Report 64 and their plans for the future. THE CONDUCT OF WAR The work of Soviet military theorists during the 1930s has been especially influential on U.S. Army doctrine since at least 1982 and the publication of Index to Advertisers: FM 100-5 AirLand Battle. These concepts remain central to U.S. operational Blue Skies of Texas . 69 doctrine to this day. The Boeing Company . .33 By MAJ Wilson Blythe Jr., National Defense University Historian CACI . 21 Calamos Investments . 77 Delta Dental . 61 Humana Military Healthcare Services . 11 Leidos . .Inside Front Cover Logistics Health Inc . 85 Mercer . 57 University of Maryland, University College . .89 United Concordia Dental . 93 United Healthcare . Outside Back Cover USAA . 27 Walmart . 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On the Run—In a Tutu By Ann Peru Knabe Find ROA on Facebook: www.roa.org/facebook_fan Follow ROA on Twitter: twitter@ReserveOfficer Network with ROA on LinkedIn at: www.roa.org/linked 2 THE OFFICER / WINTER 2015 PRESIDENT’S COLUMN BY BG MICHAEL J. SILVA, USAR • ROA PRESIDENT THE RIGHT TRAJECTORY ROA Takes Important Steps Toward Financial Stability ince our July convention in Long Beach, your Command, at Fort Eustis, Va. He is a highly resourceful leader executive committee has been very busy righting the financial with experience in the private and public sectors and the mili- ship at ROA. Cuts to overhead and program expenses have tary, with in-depth experience in general management, public put our association’s expenses more in balance with its and media relations, marketing, human resources and orga- revenues. Since I assumed the presidency, we have reduced nizational development, political management, and protocol. expenses by nearly $2 million. His biography can be found on the ROA website. He can be One expense reduction by the ExCom was the elimination reached at [email protected] or 202-646-7701. of four positions from the finance department, which saved It is with great pleasure that I am also able to report a fan- three full-time salaries; we hired SmithBucklin, an associa- tastic hire of a new director of legislative affairs. Lieutenant tion management and services company, to provide our finan- Colonel Susan Lukas has already had a positive impact. We cial reports and updates. The transition has taken more time are fortunate that she was willing to leave a similar role at the than expected, however we are on the right track. In March, the Department of Veterans Affairs to return to ROA. Many of ExCom paid off $475,000 in debt and paid in $355,000 to the you may remember Lt Col Lukas as legislative director/Air life member trust fund. Both of these major actions improve Force director at ROA prior to Captain Marshall Hanson. our balance sheet and income statements that are presented to We will always remember CAPT Hanson and his great the bank per our building loan requirements. We are imple- work on behalf of ROA. While no one could ever replace him, menting strategies to be completed by the end of my Presidency we should all rejoice that Lt Col Lukas has accepted this vital that sets ROA finances back on course for stability. role for our association. She brings knowledge, experience, The ExCom has developed a draft strategic plan to help and instant credibility on Capitol Hill that only a very rare guide the association going forward. While many revisions few could provide to ROA. Let’s all congratulate and support will be required to the plan, it is a great initial draft. Lt Col Lukas in her new role. In October, the ExCom selected a new executive director In sum, your elected leaders and staff have been working to lead our association’s daily business activities. diligently to position ROA as the nation’s leading expert on Jeffrey Phillips, a major general in the Army Reserve, is Reserve Component use and resourcing, and