Manning Shortfalls of the Individual Ready Reserves in Providing Combat Support and Combat Service Support Personnel for the Total Army.

Abstract

The Total Army has evolved from its conception in the early 1970s into a force dependant upon the reserves to provide supporting units in order to project a force in times of crisis. Operation Desert Storm proved the need for the reserves to deploy Combat Support and Combat Service Support (CS/CSS) units quickly and early. With the smaller Army of the late 1990s, the second order affect of this dependance on reserve support units is the greater requirement placed on the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) to provide pre-trained individual soldiers to both active and reserve CS/CSS units in order for them to deploy. The Army has no other source of personnel to fill these deploying units to the required levels for war. This paper examines why the Army needs CS/CSS IRR soldiers to be trained and ready to assume positions to support the Total Army.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA309197

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  • Larry Landrum

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  • United States Army War College

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