Nondeployable Naval Reserve Component Personnel.
Abstract
Introduction. In 1991' the Department of the Army Inspector General's special assessment of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm indicated that dental and medical limitations accounted for more than 60 percent of nondeployable soldiers at mobilization stations. The inadequacy of Army family care plans also resulted in nondeployable soldiers and caused last minute personnel substitutions. In 1994, the General Accounting Office reported that DoD had been lax in overseeing the Services implementation of its medical and physical fitness programs for reservists. This is the second of two Inspector General, DoD, reports following up on those previously reported conditions. On June 1, 1998, the Office of the Inspector General, DoD, issued Report No. 98-142, 'Nondeployable Reserve Component Personnel,'sed by the Army Reserve Command, Army National Guard, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, and Marine Corps Reserve to identify and manage nondeployable Reserve component personnel. That report discussed the continued lack of consistency in the application and adequate oversight of family care processes. Except for the Army National Guard, Reserve components reviewed were not meeting physical readiness standards and requirements. We conducted a separate review of the Naval Reserve Force because, unlike other Reserve components, the Naval Reserve Force, except for commissioned units, deploys one reservist at a time. Commissioned units deploy as a unit with the equipment they used for training. Augmentation units deploy one reservist at a time, to provide the gaining unit with the skills needed at the time of deployment. As of July 14, 1998, about 80,000 selected reservists in the Naval Reserve Force were assigned to about 200 Naval Reserve activities. Objectives. The audit objective was to determine whether adequate procedures were in place to identify and manage nondeployable Naval Reserve component personnel.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 24, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA366996
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense