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The reserve components of the United States Armed Forces are military organizations whose members generally perform a minimum of 39 days of military duty per year and who augment the active duty (or full-time) military when necessary. The reserve components are also referred to collectively as the National Guard and Reserve. [1] [2]
On 23 April 1908 Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. [3] After World War I, under the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army, a National Guard and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army Reserve. [4]
The committee uncovered two command and control reporting chains for the Army Reserve: FORSCOM and the CAR. Unlike the Air Force Reserve and the Navy Reserve, the CAR did not have sole command of the Army Reserve. In 1989, Congress directed the Army to design a command and control plan for the Army Reserve.
Lt. Gen. Jody Daniels became the U.S. Army Reserve Command's first female leader in 2020.
International efforts to reduce the number of children in military organisations in Africa began with the Cape Town Principles and Best Practices, developed in 1997. [110] The Principles proposed that African governments commit to OPAC, which was being negotiated at the time, and raise the minimum age for military recruitment from 15 to 18. [110]
The U.S. Army Medical Recruiting Brigade, is located at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and is tasked with recruiting medical professionals and chaplains for direct commission into the Regular Army and Army Reserve as Army Medical Department or Army Chaplain Corps officers along with providing operational oversight for the Army's special operations forces ...
The chief of the United States Army Reserve (CAR) [1] is the commanding officer of the United States Army Reserve, the reserve component of the United States Army.As the highest-ranking officer in the United States Army Reserve, the CAR [2] is the principal advisor to the chief of staff of the Army on all matters relating to the Army Reserve, and is responsible for the personnel, operations ...
The Office of the Chief of Army Reserve (OCAR) is located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and provides the Chief of Army Reserve (CAR) with a staff of functional advisors who develop and execute Army Reserve plans, policies and programs, plus administer Army Reserve personnel, operations and funding. [1]