Nondeployable Reserve Component Personnel.
Abstract
Introduction. Reserve forces are critical to the successful conduct of military operations in wartime and peacetime. These forces played a vita' role in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and in recent military operations, to include Bosnia. In 1991, the Department of the Army Inspector General's special assessment of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm mobilization indicated that dental and medical limitations were responsible for more than 60 percent (approximately 8,000) of nondeployable soldiers identified at mobilization stations. Soldiers were also nondeployable due to shortfalls in family care plans. Those shortfalls caused units to execute last minute personnel substitutions. In 1994, the General Accounting Office reported that DoD was lax in overseeing the Services implementation of its medical and physical fitness programs for reservists. Evaluation Objective. The overall evaluation objective was to determine whether adequate procedures were in place to identify and manage nondeployable Reserve component personnel. We reviewed the adequacy of management control programs as they applied to the overall objective for the Army Reserve, Army National Guard, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, and Marine Corps Reserve. We will separately review and report on the Naval Reserve.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA368008
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense