1. Citizen Airmen: The Total Force

2. Overview The Total Force Reserve Categories Structure and Organization
Accessibility

3. Total Force Defined
“The organizations, units and individuals that provide the capabilities to support the Department of Defense in implementing the national security strategy”
Air Force Doctrine
Volume II – Leadership

4. Elements of the Total Force
Regular Air Force
Air National Guard
Air Force Reserves
Air Force Civilians
Contractor Staff / Host-nation Support
Civil Air Patrol

5. Policy Evolved as official policy in 1970s
Aug 1970—The Total Force Concept was announced by Secretary of Defense Laird
Aug 1973—SECDEF James Schlesinger elevated the Total Force Concept to the Total Force Policy
Objective: Integrate Active and Reserve forces in the most cost-effective manner possible maintain as small an active peacetime force as commitments permit.

6. Force Modernization
Improved the equipment to state of the art during the 1980s
“First to deploy, first to be equipped.” DOD Directive

7. Reserve Categories Ready Reserve – Made up of 3 sub-groups
Selected Reserve
Individual Ready Reserve
Inactive National Guard
Standby Reserve
Retired Reserve

8. Selected Reserve
Units and individuals designated as essential to wartime missions and prepared for active duty with 72hr notice
Have priority for training, equipment, and personnel
Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMAs)
Air Force Reserve category only
Not attached to an organized Reserve unit
Assigned to active duty components
* Selected Reserve part of Ready Reserve

9. Individual Ready Reserve
Pool of pre-trained individuals who:
Served in Active units or Selected Reserve
Have military service obligation (MSO) remaining
About 45,000 Guard and Reserve personnel
Eligible for involuntary service
* Individual Ready Reserve is part of Ready Reserve

10. Inactive National Guard
Do not train
Are not attached to active units

11. Standby Reserve
Reservist who maintain their military affiliation in one of two statuses and have key federal or state jobs that are crucial to national security
(also defense industry)
Active status: Voluntarily participate in training for retirement but receive no pay. Eligible for promotion.
Inactive status: Not authorized to participate in for retirement points and cannot be promoted. Often hardship or health issues but maintain military status because of skills the military may need in the future.
They are subject recall only under full mobilization.

12. Retired Reserve
Personnel who receive retired pay (AD/Reserve) or are placed in retirement status but have not yet reached age 60
All may be recalled to active duty by the appropriate service Secretary

13. Organization and Structure Air National Guard
Dual Mission
State
Protect Life and Property
Peace and Order
Civil Defense
Federal
Support USAF Missions
Train for Wartime

14. ANG Non-Federalized (State) Chain of Command
President
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Army
Chief of Staff
State Governor
State Adjutant General
State Guard Units
Secretary of the AF
National Guard Bureau
Director, ANG
Director, ARNG
ANG Federalized
Chain of Command
ANG Non-Federalized (State)
Chain of Command

15. Duty Status Comparison
State Active Duty
Title 32 USC
Title 10 USC
Command & Control
Governor
President
Where
IAW State Law
CONUS
Worldwide
Pay
State
Federal
Mission Types
IAW State Law (Riot Control, Emergency Response, etc.)
Training and other federally authorized purposes
Overseas training and as assigned after mobilization
Discipline
State Military Code
UCMJ
Support Law Enforcement
Yes No •

16. National Guard Personnel
Three general categories
Drill Status (traditional) Guardsmen
Technicians
Active duty Guard/Reserve personnel

17. Air Force Reserves Secretary of the Air Force
Chief of Staff, Air Force
Commander,
Air Force Reserve Command
Air Reserve Personnel Center
Denver, Colorado
4th Air Force
March Air Reserve Base, California
10th Air Force
Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas
22d Air Force
Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia

18. Accessibility Full mobilization Partial mobilization
Presidential Selected Reserve Call-Up
Volunteers

19. Full Mobilization Gives access to the full Reserves
Requires a declaration of war by Congress or designation of national emergency
Duration of Conflict plus 6 months

20. Partial Mobilization 1,000,000 members of the Ready Reserve
Up to 24 months
President must declare a national emergency

21. Presidential Selected Reserve Call-Up
Up to 200,000 personnel
Up to 270 days
President must notify Congress

22. Volunteers
Provide the majority of personnel in times of war and peace
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
William H. Harrison
John Tyler
James Knox Polk
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
James Buchanan
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Chester Alan Arthur
James Abram Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
George W. Bush 20
Presidents
Interesting to note that 20 Presidents have served As Militia men