PrairieFella
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I think the restructuring as part of the modernization work is going to help us define how they should be employed. Should they be a domestic operations [force] only? Should they be an augmentation of 20 percent of the Regular force? Could one section out of three in an infantry battalion, let’s say, be reservists? Should they be deploying overseas? We learned that mission tasks are probably not appropriate, or at least not across the board for certain organizations. We came to realize that it’s very hard to force-generate them.His statements on reservists are interesting too.
Geography is also an issue. In some parts of the country, it can take some reservists a full day just to reach a training area. If they only have a weekend to train, that means they’re travelling for two days. We want our reservists to be everywhere, but then we don’t have opportunities for them to train properly.
The one thing that we know for sure is that the Army Reserve is critical to the One Army team. We need them. We are too understrength not to have a Reserve component. That restructure is going to be important.
I want to know how the dumbass who suggested the bolded thinks we'll meet our overseas commitments without reservists haha.