Personnel Readiness in a Force Projection Army
Abstract
The personnel component of the U.S. Army's unit readiness report (USR) fails to provide the Army's senior leaders with the information they need to assess any unit's preparedness to deploy. The force projection strategy of the Army has been exercised thirty times in the past ten years. Yet, the personnel readiness report has changed little in that time. The "stop loss" remains the central assumption for calculating whether personnel are available to deploy although it has only been used once in the last thirty years. During the remaining twenty-nine deployments, units found as many as 40% of their soldiers were non-deployable, while their USR reported an average of 4% not available. Enormous unit effort was necessary to overcome the personnel shortages in these units. With a minor modification to the current USR personnel report, senior leaders can easily evaluate a unit's true condition to deploy to support a contingency operation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 10, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA377603
Entities
People
- Joseph A. Moore Jr
Organizations
- United States Army War College