Executive Summary

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Executive Summary
Managing Change

• We are transforming to meet todays demand for
  Army Reserve forces by developing a host of
  initiatives. When
• implemented, these initiatives will
  accomplish the following
• Ensure more efficient management, increasing
  units and Soldiers readiness
• Increase the number of Army Reserve Soldiers in
  deployable units
• Provide improved facilities and more effective
  training to Army Reserve Soldiers
• Streamline the command and control of Army
  Reserve forces
• Increase the number of Soldiers in specialties
  needed to support the GWOT
• Improve Army Reserve business, resourcing, and
  acquisition processes

Providing Trained and Ready Units

• We are providing Army Reserve Soldiers and units
  in support of active duty missions in 18
  countries around the world. We
• Mobilized more than 147,000 Soldiers in support
  of the GWOT as of February 2006
• Provided a CH-47 Chinook aviation company to
  support Pakistan earthquake relief efforts,
  transporting victims,
• relocating refugees and delivering supplies
  
• Supported Gulf Coast hurricane relief efforts
  by flying CH-47 Chinook helicopters and providing
  two truck companies
• to transport supplies, Soldiers and flood
  victims
• Trained and certified medical Soldiers to
  perform mass casualty decontamination
• Fielded 25 chemical and WMD defense units for
  hazardous-material and mass casualty
  decontamination operations
• Developed a progressive and cyclic training
  strategy that prioritizes resources, managed
  readiness levels, and training
• Capitalized on recent experiences in the Global
  War on Terrorism to adapt training to changing
  battlefield conditions.
• Incorporated lessons learned from GWOT into
  current training, to include courses to counter
  improvised explosive
• devices and improve survivability training
  for convoy operations

By law, the purpose of the Army Reserve is to
provide trained units and qualified persons
available for active duty in the armed forces, in
time of war or national emergency, and at such
other times as the national security may
require Title 10, U.S. Code, Subtitle E, Part 1,
Chapter 1003, Sec 10102
Equipping the Force

• Several equipment initiatives ensure that the
  Army Reserve make the best use of available
  equipment. We
• Developed and fielded a variety of logistics
  information management programs to improve
  situational awareness and support decision making
  
• Created a system that ensures the best equipment
  is provided to Army Reserve Soldiers throughout
  the AREF training cycle from pre-mobilization
  through deployment, fully supporting the Army
  Force Generation model
• Created centrally located training equipment
  pools that enable the Army Reserve to harvest
  efficiencies in resourcing and maintaining its
  equipment

The 2006 Army Reserve Posture Statement is
available at www.armyreserve.army.mil/usar/home
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Compelling Needs
Managing Change

• Continued support of Army Reserve Expeditionary
  Force and other programs associated with Army
  Force Generation
• Steady funding line for BRAC-generated changes
  to Army Reserve facilities

COMMANDERS INTENT Use the energy and urgency
of Army Transformation and the operational demands
of the Global War on Terrorism to change from a
technically focused, force-in-reserve to a
learning organization that provides trained,
ready, inactive-duty Soldiers poised and
available for active service, as if they knew the
hour and day they would be called. LTG James R.
Helmly Chief, Army Reserve
The 2006 Army Reserve Posture Statement is
available at www.armyreserve.army.mil/usar/home