The U.S. Army Reserves By: Brian Lafranchise Travon Doty

History In 1908 Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. After the First World War, under the National Defense Act on 4 June 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army, a National Guard, and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army Reserve. This organization provided a peacetime pool of trained Army Reserve officers and enlisted men for use in war

Mission The mission of the Army Reserves is to provide trained, equipped, and ready soldiers and cohesive units to meet the global requirements across a full spectrum of operations

Purpose The purpose of the Army Reserves is to provide trained units and qualified personnel to be available for active duty in time of war, national emergency, or at other times as dictated by national security requirement

Structure of the Reserves

Personnel Chief of Army Reserve Lieutenant General Jeffrey W. Talley Assistant chief of Army Reserves Mr. James L. Snyder

Personnel Command Sergeant Major of Army Reserves Command Sergeant Major Luther Thomas Jr. Chief of Staff of Army Reserves Major General James V. Young Jr.

Training Army Reserve units receive the same amount of training as regular Army units and spend an initial active duty time of about 5 months. After that five month active duty time, Reserve soldiers may choose to re-enlist for active duty again or be automatically transferred into the Reserve Component to fulfill their 8-year service agreement

Equipment Weapons: M16A4, M4A1, M67 frag grenade, Berretta M9 and Sig P228 to name a few Vehicles: M1A2 MBT, Bradley AFV, Strykers and Humvees with many different variants of each vehicle

Current and Future Ops Currently the 411 th Engineer Brigade is in Afghanistan Future Operations may be the Pacific Region (Korea)