How Reserve Call-Ups Affect Civilian Employers

Abstract

This report presents the testimony of Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight, Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives on September 29, 2005. Mr. Holtz-Eakin discusses the CBO's recent analysis of the effects of reserve call-ups on civilian employers. The military reserves provide trained service members and units that are available for active military duty during peacetime and war. Over the past decade, the Department of Defense (DoD) has dramatically increased its reliance on the reserve forces, particularly since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The reserves are integral to current operations -- of service members deployed in November 2004 in Iraq and Afghanistan, about 33 percent were reservists -- and DoD foresees continued reliance on them. Throughout the testimony, "reserves" refers to the individual services' National Guard and reserve components: the Air Force Reserve, the Air National Guard, the Army Reserve, the Army National Guard, the Coast Guard Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, and the Navy Reserve.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 2005
Accession Number
ADA474784

Entities

People

  • Douglas Holtz-eakin

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Air National Guard
  • Coast Guard
  • Commerce
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Reserves
  • National Governments
  • National Guard
  • Regulatory Reform
  • Small Business

Readers

  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.