CHAPTER 5
Selected Reserve Enlisted Accessions and Enlisted Force

 

The Ready Reserve, with an FY 1999 strength of almost 1.3 million, is the major source of manpower augmentation for the Active force.  As illustrated in Figure 5.1, the two principal elements of the Ready Reserve are the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve.  Reserve Component data in this report include only the Selected Reserve.

	Ready Reserve 1,276,190
	Selected Reserve 870,9201					Individual Ready Reserve/Inactive National Guard 405,270
	Units and Full-Time Support 848,470
Units2 726,180				Full-time Support3 122,290	Individual Mobilization Augmentees 22,450
1 Components within the Selected Reserve include the Army National Guard (ARNG), Army Reserve (USAR), Naval Reserve (USNR), Air National Guard (ANG), Air Force Reserve (USAFR), and Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR). Coast Guard Reserve is excluded. 2 Includes Selected Reserve members in the training pipeline. 3 Includes Active/Guard Reserve (AGR) and military technicians, excluding competitive civil service technicians not having mobilization assignments in the ARNG and ANG. Numbers are rounded to nearest ten. Source:  Department of Defense, Official Guard and Reserve Manpower Strengths and Statistics:  FY 1999 Summary (RCS:  DD-RA[M]1147/1148) (Washington, DC:  Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Affairs], 1999), Report A0, p. 1.004.

Figure 5.1.  FY 1999 composition of the Selected Reserve within the Ready Reserve.

The Selected Reserve includes three types of personnel: (1) those trained in units (including full-time support personnel) who are organized, equipped, and trained to perform wartime missions; (2) trained individuals (Individual Mobilization Augmentees [IMAs]) who provide wartime augmentation on or shortly after mobilization; and (3) those in the training pipeline (including personnel currently on or awaiting initial active duty for training, personnel awaiting the second part of initial active duty training, Active Guard/Reserve [AGR] currently on or awaiting initial active duty training, personnel in simultaneous membership programs [SMP], and personnel in other training programs). [1]   Reservists and Guardsmen in the training pipeline may not deploy.  Selected Reservists assigned to units and some IMAs train throughout the year.  Selected Reserve units may be either operational or augmentation units.  Operational units train and deploy as units; augmentation units train as units in peacetime, but are absorbed into Active Component units upon mobilization.

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