AMERICA’S 

ARMY 

RESERVE

AT A GLANCE

CAPABLE · COMBAT-READY · LETHAL
The only thing more expensive than 

deterring a war is fighting one. 

The only thing more expensive than 

winning a war is losing one.

— Gen. Mark Milley, chief of staff of the Army
America’s Army Reserve generates combat-ready units and Soldiers 

for the Army and Joint Warfighter that are trained, equipped and lethal 

to win our nation’s wars.

VISION MISSION

THE UNITED STATES 

ARMY RESERVE

America’s Army Reserve: the most capable, 

combat-ready and lethal Federal Reserve 

Force in the history of the nation.
CONTENTS

1 THE U.S. ARMY RESERVE: VISION AND MISSION

5 LETTER FROM THE CHIEF OF ARMY RESERVE

6 AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE

10 READY TODAY, PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

16 ECONOMIC IMPACT BY STATE AND TERRITORY

128 U.S. ARMY RESERVE INSTALLATIONS

130 DEFENSE SUPPORT OF CIVIL AUTHORITIES

133 IMMEDIATE RESPONSE AUTHORITY

134 U.S. ARMY RESERVE HISTORY

138 NOTEWORTHY SOLDIERS 

144 STRATEGIC PARTNERS

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“Army Reserve at a Glance” is a communication outreach tool produced by 

Army Reserve Communications (facts and figures as of June 2017). 

The analysis model for the Army Reserve national and state economic impacts 

is the Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II) developed by the 

Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The sequestration impact ($713.6M) depicts the difference between the 

President’s Budget 2018 (submitted 23 MAY 2017) and the Budget Control Actcompliant plan templated should BCA implementation be required. The impact 

was then distributed based on the proportion of current outlays by state. The 

potential impact of BCA has grown due to temporary end strength increases 

reversing the trajectory needed to comply with the BCA. In short, the difference 

between where the Army Reserve is (199K ESO in FY18) and where we would be 

under BCA (185.5K ESO in FY18) is larger than the previous BCA impact analysis.

All Maps were built using Esri ArcGIS v10.3.1, spring 2017 by Office of the Chief 

Army Reserve, Installation Management Directorate. Facilities listed on maps and 

within data blocks represent locations of Army Reserve and Armed Forces Reserve 

Centers and units are assigned to other non-USAR locations. Data systems used 

were Headquarters Installation Information System FY17Q2 and Army Stationing & 

Installation Plan (ASIP) data pulled during the FY17 Q1 lock. Data used to populate 

numbers of units came from ASIP pulled during the FY17 Q1 lock. 

Data used to populate the number of Soldiers was an aggregation of Total Army 

COMPO 3 from ASIP. Numbers of civilians and AGRs drawn from Chief Army 

Reserve Decision Support System (CARDSS). 

Vignettes and photos provided by U.S. Army Reserve public affairs professionals. 

Army Reserve at a Glance incorporates photo composition, textures and other 

design elements to enhance the visual impact of the publication. 

Contents in this product have been adapted and condensed from the Army Reserve 

Posture Statement/oral testimony and products previously published by Army 

Reserve Communications.

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SERVING IN 20 TIME ZONES, ACROSS THE GLOBE AND AROUND THE CLOCK... 

THE SUN NEVER SETS ON AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE 

Mobilized Outside

Contiguous U.S.

9,159 (4.6%)

EUCOM

U.S. European Command

AFRICOM

U.S. Africa Command

PACOM U.S. Pacific Command

Mobilized Outside

Contiguous U.S.

9,159 (4.6%)

NORTHCOM

U.S. Northern Command

SOUTHCOM

 U.S. Southern 

 Command

CENTCOM U.S. Central Command

$8,202,317,000

DOLLARS SPENT

$18,088,385,553

ECONOMIC IMPACT 

$5,254,643,768

NON-DOD WAGES 

161,999

NON-DOD JOBS

199,000 Soldiers 

11,000 Civilians

2,000+ Units

50 States 

5 U.S. Territories

30 Countries

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For more than a century, America’s Army Reserve has delivered 

decisive capabilities to the battlefield, fulfilling our integral role as 

a force-provider for the most lethal land power in the world. Since 

its founding in 1908, the Army Reserve has fielded a broad array 

of capabilities — often by leveraging civilian-acquired skills as 

Citizen Soldiers. We provide combat-ready units and highly-skilled 

individual Soldiers to America’s Army in order to generate the 

decisive combat power required to win the nation’s wars.

The role of the Army Reserve is more critical than ever in an age 

characterized by the persistent presence of asymmetric threats of 

terrorism and radical groups as well as the emerging, dynamic, and 

highly contentious challenges presented by potential adversaries 

with the capability, propensity and willingness to contest America’s 

military power in all domains. 

As I reach out across the United States and around the globe, I 

continue to press America’s leaders and influencers to encourage 

their communities, cities, campuses, congressional districts — and 

the employers located therein — to see themselves as full partners 

in national security; sharing their best talent with us as we support 

and defend the Constitution of United States. Your support is vital to 

the nation, and there is no room for slack. It must be nourished and 

reinvigorated every day. 

As we move into the future, your Army Reserve will maintain true 

to its roots. We will continue to anticipate emerging demographics, 

moving structure and capability not only to where talent is, but also 

to where it will be. We will continue to recruit and retain our team 

where they live and work, remaining flexible, agile and innovative, 

and staying attuned to, and in step with, the velocity of change 

in our time. There is no federal force on earth with the scope, 

connectivity, agility and coherent command and control architecture 

to consistently leverage the talent that exists within the private and 

commercial sectors as a core competency. It is who we are, what we 

do — and what we owe our fellow citizens. 

America’s Army Reserve has always met the challenges of the time. 

In the past year we have covered much ground — we are posturing 

this team to be able to move fast, engage quickly and win decisively 

on the battlefields of tomorrow. 

With your help, we will continue to provide the ready capabilities the 

people of the United States expect and deserve. We will remain your 

go-to team of Warrior Citizens, serving the nation as both Soldiers 

and engaged citizens around the globe. 

Lt. Gen. Charles D. Luckey

Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General, 

U.S. Army Reserve Command

It is a pleasure to present you with the latest edition of Army Reserve at a Glance. This book provides you with a 

concise overview of the presence, posture and capabilities of our nearly 200,000 Soldier-strong force. On behalf of our 

Soldiers, their families, the employers of America, and the Department of the Army civilians who support us, I thank 

you for your interest in — and your sustained commitment to — this team of Warrior Citizens.
Combat engineer Soldiers from the 374th Engineer Company (Sapper), 

headquartered in Concord, Calif., conduct an air assault landing and patrol 

training during a two-week field training exercise known as a Sapper Leader 

Course Prerequisite Training, at Camp San Luis Obispo Military Installation, 

Calif. The unit is grading its Soldiers on various events to determine which 

ones will earn a spot on a “merit list” to attend the Sapper Leader Course at 

Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (Photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)

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AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE

As the character of warfare becomes more complex, 

reserve forces that can survive and win on the 

battlefield are essential to the Army’s success in 

winning future wars. America’s Army Reserve is 

ensuring its ethos and culture are highly focused and 

able to deliver the most capable, combat-ready and 

lethal Federal Reserve Force in the history of the 

nation.

Operating as an Army component and force-providing 

command, the Army Reserve has a congressionally 

authorized strength of 199,000 Soldiers, more 

than 11,000 Civilians, and 2,075 units, residing and 

operating in every state, five U.S. territories, and 30 

countries. The Army Reserve accounts for 20 percent 

of the Army’s organized units, provides nearly half 

of the Army’s total maneuver support and makes up 

a quarter of the Army’s mobilization base expansion 

capability. Critical capabilities include early opening 

and set-the-theater units required to rapidly deploy 

forces, build expeditionary combat power, and 

sustain a campaign-capable force. 

In today’s full-spectrum environment, America’s armed forces must be prepared to quickly respond to capable and 

sophisticated high-end threats, conduct sustained counterterrorist operations and deter aggression in multiple 

regions of the world while simultaneously defending the homeland. 
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SPECIALIZED CAPABILITIES

The Army Reserve is structured with specialized 

capabilities that are vital to defeating a near 

peer, high-end competitor, including some 

not present elsewhere in the Joint Force. 

These include:

• Sustainment capabilities that are needed for 

major combat operations, but too expensive 

to keep on active duty when not required, 

such as theater-level transportation and 

sustainment.

• Career skills that are in high demand in the 

civilian sector and difficult to retain on active 

duty, such as medical, legal, engineering 

and cyber.

SUPPORTING CAPABILITIES FOR THE 

OPERATIONAL FORCE

The Army Reserve is responsible for a majority 

of the following capabilities in the Total Army:

• Civil affairs

• Quartermaster

• Medical

• Military-Information Support Operations 

(information operations and cyber operations)

• Chemical

• Transportation

• Legal Support

• Military History

• Chaplain

Opposite: Combat engineers 

with the 455th Engineer 

Company, 301st Maneuver 

Enhancement Brigade, 

participate in an eight-mile 

foot march at Ninemile 

Wildlands Training Center. 

The Ninemile Remount 

Depot is listed on the 

National Register of Historic 

Places. (Photo by Sgt. 

Demetrio Montoya)

This page: Flight crews 

from the 8-229th Assault 

Helicopter Battalion conduct 

sling load operations with 

elements from the 1-163 

Field Artillery Regiment 

of the Indiana National 

Guard. (Photo by Renee 

Rhodes, Fort Knox Visual 

Information)

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Below: Soldiers assigned to 

the 455th Engineer Company, 

301st Maneuver Enhancement 

Brigade, witness the aftermath 

of a 40-pound cratering 

charge during extended 

combat training. (Photo by Sgt. 

Demetrio Montoya)

Opposite: The 2017 Army 

Reserve Best Warrior Soldier 

of the Year, watches for enemy 

combatants on a combat life 

saver lane to prepare for the 

Department of Army Best 

Warrior Competition. (Photo by 

Calvin Reimold)

UNIQUE UNIT TYPES IN THE ARMY RESERVE

In addition to a broad spectrum of low-density 

enabling units throughout its force, the following unit 

types exist only in the Army Reserve: 

COMMANDS/CAPABILITIES • Theater Engineer Commands • Civil Affairs Commands • Petroleum Operations • Biological-Agent Defense • Medical Minimal Care Detachments

EMERGING CAPABILITIES WITH 

CONNECTIONS TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR • Cyber operations • Army Space • Basic research • Advanced technology adaptation and integration • Non-traditional accessions

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Data as of AUG 2017 OCAR FM

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The Army Reserve contributes to the 

Army’s Total Force by providing a 

significant percentage of maneuver 

support and sustainment capabilities. 

SUPPORT & SUSTAINMENT 

CAPABILITIES USAR % 

Mil Info Support Ops 83

Civil Affairs 82

Chaplain 81

Military History 77

Quartermaster (Field Service) 65

Transportation 56

Medical 50

Quartermaster (Supply) 64

Adjutant General 33

Chemical 40

Information Ops 40

JAG 30

Public Affairs 38

Engineers 35

Military Intelligence 29

Military Police 25

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READY TODAY, PREPARING 

FOR THE FUTURE

READINESS IS PRIORITY ONE 

Near-peer competitors possess significant highly 

technical and disruptive capabilities far more lethal and 

fast-paced than in the past. The Army Reserve must 

also remain postured to provide capabilities in response 

to Homeland Defense and Defense Support to Civil 

Authorities. With substantial capabilities vital in disaster 

response, the Army Reserve continues to support lead 

agencies for domestic emergencies and disaster 

relief efforts. 

Confronted by potential adversaries with the technology, 

resources and the propensity to challenge and contest 

peace and stability around the globe, America’s Army 

Reserve is uniquely postured and empowered to leverage 

a wide-ranging reservoir of professional talent to compete 

across all domains. Through its direct connections with 

Army Reserve units will continue to remain sized, trained, and postured to protect the nation and its interests in multiple 

domains. Although the battlefield environment ahead will likely continue to include groups such as ISIS and other nonstate terrorist groups, the future battlespace is expected to be characterized by hybrid, higher-end threats. 
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the private sector and academia, the Army Reserve has 

the distinctive flexibility and agility to develop leaders, 

build the force, and advance cutting edge technologies in 

the defense of the nation. Partnerships with industry and 

federal technology-based organizations are emerging to 

take advantage of the Army Reserve’s unique relationship 

with the private sector.

.

Above: Soldiers from the 396th 

Engineer Company perform a site 

reconnaissance during a Combat 

Support Training Exercise. More 

than 12,000 service members from 

the U.S. and six other countries 

are training as part of the 84th 

Training Command’s CSTX and 

AREMEDCOM’s Global Medic. This 

joint and multi-national exercise is 

designed to ensure that America’s 

Army Reserve units are capable, 

combat ready, and lethal. (Photo 

by Spc. John Russell)

Left: Army Reserve Capt. Dustin 

Whidden, San Jose, California, 

recruits veterans to work at Tesla, 

Inc., inviting them to join Tesla’s 

mission of accelerating the world’s 

transition to sustainable energy. 

(Photo courtesy Tesla)

Opposite: Combat engineers with 

the 455th Engineer Company, 

301st Maneuver Enhancement 

Brigade, participate in an eightmile foot march. (Photo by Sgt. 

Demetrio Montoya)

CYBERSPACE AND NATIONAL SECURITY 

With years of experience in the commercial sector, many 

Army Reserve Soldiers have developed industry-specific 

knowledge, expertise and skills that they can apply in 

cyber and other advanced-technology fields. Structure 

to support high tech-focused DoD initiatives leveraging 

“digital key terrain” is being positioned in select locations, 

creating more opportunities to draw upon civilian 

skills and relationships with academia and industry, 

and capitalize on evolving demographic shifts in the 

population. For example, Army Reserve cyber Soldiers 

support a myriad of missions to include cyber protection 

of critical infrastructure networks. Army Reserve Cyber 

Operations Group Soldiers are employed by more than 

30 government agencies and contractors—including 

the DHS, NSA, FBI, and Defense Intelligence Agency, 

and more than 40 corporate, financial, and academic 

institutions, such as Uber, Google, IBM, MIT, CarnegieMelon University, and the Naval Post Graduate School.

Above: A Soldier with Detachment 3 of the U.S. Army Reserve Element, Defense 

Information Systems Agency, reviews the assigned exercise material during day one of 

the Cyber X-Games, hosted by the Army Reserve Cyber Operations Group (ARCOG), 335th 

Signal Command (Theater), at Carnegie Mellon University. (Photo by Sgt. Erick Yates)

Photo illustration 
READY FORCE X 

In this emerging environment of high-end lethality 

and battle space complexity, rapid mobilization of 

lead formations is critical to deploying and sustaining 

combat power. Consistent realistic training and modern 

equipment lowers the risk of loss of life and increases the 

ability of our forces to succeed in combat. 

As America’s Army Reserve continues to meet current 

and projected demands, it is developing and organizing 

enhanced readiness to ensure that the team is able to 

move fast—in some cases, in days or weeks—to fight, 

survive, communicate effectively with deployed forces, and 

deliver lethal effects necessary to win on the battlefield. 

Whether in the operational force, operational depth or 

strategic depth forces, America’s Army Reserve must 

be capable of mobilizing rapidly and deploying with the 

mobility, survivability, connectivity, and lethality needed 

to win on the battlefield. Quickly generating and deploying 

units of action will require additional training days and 

the most capable and modern equipment, and command 

and control systems—to close interoperability gaps in 

areas such as battlefield communications and mission 

command systems—in order to ensure that units are 

ready to deploy rapidly without extended post mobilization 

train-up. This also includes units in the mission force to 

support the CBRN Response Element (CRE) and known 

demand supporting Combatant Commands.

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Above: Soldiers from 

the 339th Military Police 

Company (Combat 

Support), train on route 

reconnaissance at a 

Warrior Exercise. The 

339th had to relocate their 

tactical assembly areas 

in the field multiple times 

as they reconnoitered 

different areas of their 

operational environment, 

while fighting against 

temperatures reaching 

100-plus degrees daily. 

(Photo by Master Sgt. 

Michel Sauret)

Right: A military police 

Soldier with the 56th 

Military Police Company, 

returns to camp after a 

reconnaissance patrol with 

his troops the night before 

a morning mission during 

a Combat Support Training 

Exercise. (Photo by Master 

Sgt. Michel Sauret)

Air superiority, control of the sea, and secure lines 

of communication are no longer givens on the 

battlefields of the future. Just as Airmen and Sailors 

seek supremacy in the air and on the seas, Soldiers 

must dominate near-peer competitors on land.

— Lt. Gen. Charles D. Luckey, Chief of Army Reserve and 

Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command 
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OPERATION COLD STEEL

America’s Army Reserve organizes and prepares to generate the significant 

surge capacity needed by the Army in order to fight and win the Nation’s wars. 

A recent example, Cold Steel, is the largest live fire exercise in America’s Army 

Reserve history.

Developed to train and certify more than 400 crews, with Soldiers qualifying on 

M2, M19, and M240B weapons over a seven-week period, an estimated 1,800 

Soldiers got a leg up in meeting the Army’s new Objective T readiness standards 

at this large-scale live-fire training and crew-served weapons qualification and 

validation exercise. In accordance with Objective T standards, all units will now 

be required to conduct annual crew-served and platform qualifications in order 

to meet directed readiness objectives. 

Exercises such as Cold Steel and collective training through the Combat Training 

Centers and the Combat Support Training Program are crucial to ensuring units 

and Soldiers are trained and ready to mobilize and deploy combat-ready and 

lethal capabilities on short notice in support of Army 

and Joint Force commanders around the world.

A Soldier with 327th Engineer Company, 416th 

Theater Engineer Command, qualifies with 

the MK-19 automatic grenade launcher during 

Operation Cold Steel at Fort McCoy, Wis., March 

13, 2017. Operation Cold Steel is the U.S. Army 

Reserve’s crew-served weapons qualification and 

validation exercise to ensure that Soldiers bring 

combat-ready and lethal firepower in support of 

the Army and our joint partners anywhere in the 

world. (Photo by Spc. Maurice Cheeks)

1500 ARMY RESERVE SOLDIERS

4.9 Million ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION

40,000 ROUNDS OF MARK 19, 

40 MM GRENADES

414 VEHICLE CREWS 

 (93%) qualified (Gunnery Table VI)

56 CREWS FIRING DISTINGUISHED

 (Highest possible score)

98 CREWS QUALIFIED SUPERIOR 

 (Second highest score)

100

VEHICLE CREW 

EVALUATORS TRAINED

by First Army and 

Army Reserve 

Master Gunners

1st

FEMALE 

MASTER 

GUNNER

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ARMY RESERVE 

MASTER 

GUNNERS

TRAINED

COLD STEEL: BY THE NUMBERS

READY

SIDEBAR PHOTO BY STAFF SGT. DEBRALEE BEST, 84TH TRAINING COMMAND
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FAMILIES AND EMPLOYERS

The capacity to build and 

sustain readiness is directly 

affected by our ability 

to maintain the strong 

support of these dedicated 

Americans. Nurturing our 

diverse families is at the 

core of our shared Army 

values and ethos of caring 

for one another. Engaging 

our employers with not only 

advanced notification of 

military commitments but 

also treating them as partners in national security is a reminder that we 

all have a role in serving the American people. The unwavering support 

of Families and employers often determines whether Army Reserve 

Soldiers continue their military service to our country. For Soldiers and 

their families, this requires a delicate balance between being ready enough 

to be relevant, but not so ready that it negatively affects their ability to 

maintain good, rewarding civilian employment. 

The Army Reserve relies heavily on the families and 

communities that support them, as well as the persistent 

willingness of America’s employers to share their finest talent. 

FORT FAMILY

Geographically-dispersed Soldiers and Families often face unique 

challenges. In the Army Reserve, Fort Family is getting after these and 

many other challenges. The Fort Family Outreach and Support Center at 

http://arfp.org or via the Fort Family phone number at 1-844-ONE-FAMY 

or 1-844-663-3269, provides live, relevant, and responsive information, and 

unit and community-based solutions to support Army Reserve Soldiers and 

Families, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year.

Photo by Steph Anderson Chambers|mlive Media Group/Kalamazoo Gazette,mlive.com/Kalamazoo

Consistent realistic training and 

modern equipment lowers the 

risk of loss of life and increases 

the ability of our forces to 

succeed in combat.
ALL THINGS FUTURE

Committed to meeting enduring and emerging 

requirements around the globe, the Army Reserve 

provides the depth and scalability needed to meet current 

and anticipated requirements of Combatant Commands; 

achieves a cost-effective balance by using the strengths 

and capabilities of each component; and provides a base 

of trained, equipped and ready Soldiers, leaders and 

units from which the Army may draw to meet current and 

future complex threats.

As the dedicated federal reserve of the most decisive 

and lethal land force in the world, it is a moral and 

operational imperative that, if we send our Soldiers into 

harm’s way, the nation ensures they are trained and 

equipped with the required mobility, survivability and 

lethality to win on the battlefield. 

America’s Army Reserve is meeting the emerging needs 

of the Army, building and deploying units-of-action and 

growing leaders for a 21st Century force. A trained and 

equipped, ready and operational Army Reserve provides 

the critical enabling capabilities combat forces rely on 

to and win our nation’s wars. Faced with the most the 

diverse and complex array of national security threats 

in generations, when called to serve, we will fight. 

And we will win. 

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A 2016 U.S. Army Reserve 

Best Warrior competitor 

fires downrange at the 

50-meter pop up target 

while pyrotechnics light 

up the night sky during the 

M4 carbine qualification 

portion of the competition 

at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Photo 

by Sgt. Christina M. Dion)

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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $16.8 Million 27 96 5,068 203

 $245,678,795 

 2,658 

 $76,164,100 

$192,742,115 

$107,931,934 

$20,276,073 

Army Reserve veterinarians 

and veterinary technicians, 

like those serving in the 

358th Medical Detachment, 

have strong academic and 

civilian-sector backgrounds, 

in areas such as 

microbiology, epidemiology 

and public health.

SHEFFIELD HUNTSVILLE

JASPER

ANNISTON [4]

MOBILE [3]

TUSCALOOSA

LIVINGSTON

MONTGOMERY [3]

OPELIKA

FORT RUCKER [2]

DOTHAN

REDSTONE ARSENAL [3]

USAR Deployment Support Command, 

Birmingham

Gulf Training Division, 75th Training 

Command, Birmingham

Army Reserve Sustainment 

Command, Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM [5]

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: Army Reserve instructor for Task Force 

Wolf instructs a Cadet Initial Entry Training 

candidate from Marion Military Institute 

in Northern Alabama, on the Individual 

Movement Training lane at Christensen 

Range, during Cadet Summer Training. 

(Photo by Sgt. Karen Sampson) 

Right: Soldiers of the 318th Chemical 

Company out of Birmingham, decontaminate 

a Stryker vehicle during a decontamination 

mission at exercise Red Dragon. (Photo by 

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ENGINEER

CHEMICAL

MEDICAL

LOGISTICS

TRANSPORTATION

QUARTERMASTER

TRAINING SUPPORT

AL CAPABILITIES

These assignments included movements to Pensacola, 

Florida in 2016, where they honed skills required for 

Defense Support of Civil Authorities and to the northern 

region of Afghanistan in 2011, where they opened the 

first fully operational veterinary service facility. While 

deployed, the detachment not only served military 

police canines, but also inspected all meat and dairy 

products brought into the dining facilities. Army Reserve 

veterinarians and veterinary technicians have strong 

academic and civilian-sector backgrounds, in areas such 

as microbiology, epidemiology and public health. 

Birmingham’s Deployment Support Command 

consolidates all Army Reserve surface mobility units 

under a single command. The DSC trains and oversees 

units performing terminal, rail, deployment and 

distribution support, movement control and watercraft 

missions. These capabilities make the transportation 

of vital resources possible to any areas not accessible 

by air.

The Anniston-based 310th Chemical Company is a tipof-the-spear unit, trained and ready to react to chemical, 

biological, radiological or nuclear events. The “Dark 

Dragons” have deployed numerous times to Iraq and 

Afghanistan and have also maintained strong relationships 

with local authorities and first responders at home.

Montgomery-based Soldiers of the 358th Medical Detachment Veterinary Services put their skills 

to use at home and across the globe. 

ALABAMA
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

29 539 13

 $16,466,022 

 163 

 $5,241,429 

$15,378,084 

$8,843,868 

$1,298,468 

 - $1.3 Million

Soldiers honed 

their skills while 

helping to provide 

residents of Port 

Lions and the 

island of Kodiak 

with medical care, 

and optical, dental 

and veterinary 

services.

FORT WAINWRIGHT

JOINT BASE 

ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON
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Army Reserve Soldiers keep their skills sharp in 

Alaska through multi-component training events, 

such as Arctic Shield, a Department of Defense and 

Department of Homeland Security exercise that 

focusses on resident first responders. 

ALASKA

Key training objectives include securing the port of 

Anchorage and establishing an unbroken supply chain to 

the troops on the front line—both examples of skills critical 

for the defense of the nation.

Another civil military exercise is Arctic Care, which 

is supported by the Department of Defense’s 

Innovative Readiness Training program. IRT 

events such as Arctic Care match reserve 

component units with underserved 

communities for the units’ twoweek annual training periods. 

During Arctic Care 2017, Army 

Reserve Soldiers honed their 

skills while helping to provide 

residents of Port Lions and the 

island of Kodiak with medical 

screenings and care, and 

optical, dental and veterinary 

services, at no cost. 

MEDICAL

ENGINEER

INSTALLATION SUPPORT

AK CAPABILITIES

Left: Two watercraft operators 

from the 11th Transportation 

Battalion, assist Logistics 

Support Vessel 7 in mooring to 

the pier during Joint Logistics 

Over-the-Shore operations, 

part of the annual Alaska Shield 

in Anchorage. (Photo by Sgt. 

Stefanie Warner)

Above: Arctic Care participants 

sit onboard an Air Force C-17 

Globemaster III at Joint Base 

Elmendorf-Richardson, before 

heading to Nome. Medical 

professionals from the Army 

Reserve, Army National Guard, 

Navy Reserve and active duty 

spent two weeks providing 

medical care to Alaska’s remote 

communities. (Photo by Maj. 

Guy Hayes)
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $9.1 Million

6 60 3,451 84

 $139,670,746 

 1,284 

 $43,269,108 

$104,390,605 

$74,986,810 

$8,390,099 

Once configured to mobilize 

and replace an entire 

active-duty hospital staff 

ordered forward, the 7453rd 

Medical Backfill Battalion 

is now redesigned to deploy 

in modular units, which 

better support modern 

Army hospital departments, 

such as blood labs or 

emergency room staffs.

PHOENIX [2]

TUCSON

MESA BUCKEYE

SILVER BELL ARMY HELIPORT

FORT HUACHUCA

OPPOSITE PAGE (clockwise from lower left)

A Soldier from the 335th Signal Command 

(Theater) performs sit-ups during the Army 

Physical Fitness Test at Fort Huachuca, as part of 

the command’s 2017 Best Warrior Competition. 

(Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Powell)

Two teams of military police Soldiers from the 

56th Military Police Company (Combat Support) 

of Mesa find and detain two high-value targets 

during a cordon and search training lane at Fort 

Hunter-Liggett, Calif. (Photo by Master Sgt. 

Michel Sauret)

A military police Soldier from Tempe with Mesa’s 

56th Military Police Company (Combat Support) 

looks through a pair of binoculars before a 

cordon and search training lane at Fort HunterLiggett. (Photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
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The former Army hospital, was configured to mobilize 

and replace an entire active-duty hospital staff ordered 

forward. As the 7453rd MBB, its modular construction 

better supports modern Army hospital departments, 

such as blood labs or emergency room staffs.

Military police personnel from the 539th Military Police 

Detachment in Buckeye returned from a 12-month 

deployment to Afghanistan in February 2013. During 

the deployment, their mission included protecting more 

than 138,000 military and civilian personnel at five 

forward operating bases.

The evolution of the 7453rd Medical Backfill Battalion in Mesa is a prime example of the Army Reserve’s 

ability to transform to meet the needs of the Army and the nation. 

ARIZONA

AZ CAPABILITIES

MEDICAL

QUARTERMASTER

MILITARY POLICE

LEGAL

SIGNAL

CIVIL AFFAIRS

ENGINEER

TRANSPORTATION

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

LOGISTICS
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $6.7 Million 13 47 2,292 120

 $90,343,853 

 971 

 $28,016,483 

$77,331,611 

$38,375,870 

$11,985,856 

OPPOSITE PAGE (left to right)

A Soldier from the 341st Engineer 

Company (Multi-Role Bridge), out of 

Fort Chaffee, plunges into the Arkansas 

River during a helocast training 

exercise at Fort Chaffee, as part of 

Operation River Assault. (Photo by 

Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter delivers 

an interior bridge bay to bridge crew 

members with the 502nd Engineer 

Company (Multi-Role Bridge), during 

Operation River Assault 2015 at Fort 

Chaffee. Soldiers from various Army 

Reserve and active duty units trained 

together to create a modular bridge 

across the Arkansas River. (Photo by 

Sgt. Jeff Shackelford)

A military police Soldier with the 

346th Military Police Company, 

performs a boresight alignment on 

a crew-served weapon mounted to a 

Common Remotely Operated Weapon 

Station, at Fort Chaffee. (Photo by 

Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)

West Memphis residents received more than 18,000 

individual examinations, treatments and consultations, 

ranging from medical and behavioral health 

BENTONVILLE screenings to dental and optometry care. HARRISON

BARLING / 

FORT CHAFFEE [2] RUSSELLVILLE

CONWAY

HOT SPRINGS

ARKADELPHIA

JONESBORO

LITTLE ROCK [2]

EL DORADO
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LOGISTICS

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

MEDICAL

MISO

ENGINEERS

LEGAL

AR CAPABILITIES

As a result of their 

mission, West 

Memphis residents 

received more than 

18,000 individual 

examinations, 

treatments and 

consultations, 

ranging from 

medical and 

behavioral health 

screenings to dental 

and optometry care. 

Cooperating with the 

federal government’s 

Delta Regional 

Authority and local 

civil authorities, 

Soldiers from 

the 8th Medical Brigade provided quality healthcare 

through IRT, which builds mutually beneficial civilmilitary partnerships between U.S. communities and the 

Department of Defense, providing healthcare service 

while allowing Soldiers to hone capabilities needed 

in battle.

Camp Robinson is home to the 90th Sustainment 

Brigade, a modular organization that performs support 

functions to include transportation, maintenance, 

personnel, finance and logistics for deployed assets. 

The brigade’s structure and assets allow it to both 

support the warfighter and respond to foreign and 

domestic emergencies. 

ARKANSAS

3rd Medical Command Soldiers provided mission support and supervision for a joint-component 

Innovative Readiness Training mission serving an underserved population of 32,000 in the Mississippi 

River Delta-region. 
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $65.9 Million 34 283 18,725 741

 $1,150,000,397 

 9,847 

 $356,396,889 

$757,352,634 

$392,464,319 

$74,012,659 

OPPOSITE PAGE

Top left: A mortuary affairs specialist 

with the Los Angeles-based 387th 

Quartermaster Company – Mortuary 

Affairs, performs security for a 

simulated crash site during a mortuary 

affairs exercise at Fort Pickett, Va. 

(Photo by Sgt. Quentin Johnson)

Bottom: A Soldier flanks the position of 

a simulated enemy in order to provide 

protection for his other team members 

during the Best Warrior Competition 

at Fort Hunter Liggett. (Photo by Spc. 

Eric Unwin)

351st Civil Affairs 

Command, Mountain View

63rd Regional Support 

Command, Mountain View

91st Training Division (OPS), 

Fort Hunter Liggett 

 U.S. Amy Garrison West, 

Fort Hunter Liggett 

79th Theater 

Sustainment 

Command, 

Los Alamitos

Renewable technologies 

produce more than 30 percent 

of Fort Hunter Liggett’s 

electricity. Additionally, 

garrison personnel monitor 

federally-designated 

endangered species, including 

the arroyo toad, vernal pool 

fairy shrimp, San Joaquin kit 

fox, California condor, and 

purple amole, as well as rare 

plants and migratory birds. 

SACRAMENTO

SAN FRANCISCO

SAN JOSE

LOS ANGELES [2]

SAN DIEGO [3]

VALLEJO [2]

SAN PABLO CONCORD

PARKS RESERVE TNG CTR

MOUNTAIN VIEW

MARINA FRESNO [2]

BAKERSFIELD

BARSTOW

VAN NUYS [3]

SOUTH EL MONTE

PORT HUENEME

UPLAND

BELL [2]

LONG BEACH GARDEN GROVE

IRVINE

CAMP PENDLETON

311th Sustainment 

Command 

(Expeditionary), 

Los Angeles

FORT HUNTER LIGGETT 

Pacific Training Division, 

75th Training Command, 

Camp Parks (Dublin)

JOLON [2]

FRENCH CAMP

COSTA MESA
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MEDICAL

LOGISTICS

AVIATION

QUARTERMASTER

LEGAL

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

TRANSPORTATION (HEAVY BOAT) 

(PORT MANAGEMENT)

CIVIL AFFAIRS

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

MISO

CYBERSECURITY

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

CA CAPABILITIES

Fort Hunter Liggett is the largest installation in the Army Reserve, supporting more than 250 units and 

over 20,000 Soldiers in the greater San Francisco area. Dozens of drop zones and restricted airspace 

up to 24,000 feet also make its 165,000-acre expanse an ideal training area for airborne Soldiers. 

Additionally, the Army Reserve’s largest installation 

provides training for both active- and reserve-component 

Soldiers in gunnery, maneuver support and sustainment 

at facilities that include mocked-up forward operating 

bases, a five-mile convoy live-five course, firing ranges, 

a live-fire shoot house and an urban assault course.

Mountain View’s 63rd Regional Support Command, 

the legacy unit of the “Blood and Fire” Soldiers of the 

63rd Infantry Division, enhances Soldier readiness and 

family support through Yellow Ribbon programs, base 

operations and resource management across seven of 

the country’s southwestern states.

Los Alamitos’s 79th Theater Sustainment Command

provides trained and ready logistics units for 

worldwide operations and deployments, 

including theater-level mission command.

CALIFORNIA
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $10.1 Million 12 64 3,183 128

 $166,947,752 

 1,515 

 $51,241,685 

$116,419,140 

$77,529,282 

$12,784,913 

DENVER [2]

WINDSOR

AURORA

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE

FORT CARSON

COLORADO SPRINGS [7]

The new 8th Space Company joined the Colorado Springs-based 

1st Space Battalion. The company supports the Army’s position 

as the Pentagon’s top consumer of space-based assets and 

services, such as intelligence, communications and mapping. 
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MEDICAL

SPACE

AVIATION

CIVIL AFFAIRS

ENGINEER

MILITARY POLICE

MISO

TRANSPORTATION

TRAINING SUPPORT

CO CAPABILITIES

Windsor’s 409th Engineer Company Soldiers built three health clinics under 

a punishing tropical sun, in support of Beyond the Horizon 2017. The U.S. 

Southern Command-sponsored, Army South-led exercise is designed to 

provide humanitarian and engineering services and demonstrate American 

support for the people of Belize. 

COLORADO

Closer to home, Animal Care Specialists and Veterinary 

Food Inspection Specialists from Aurora’s 993rd Medical 

Detachment refreshed their training by working with calves 

and other livestock at the Patterson Ranch, just outside 

Fort Hunter Liggett, California. The Soldiers examined 

and vaccinated the animals. In previous 

years, the 993rd have mobilized to support 

the Arctic Care humanitarian exercise, 

providing veterinary services to dozens of 

isolated communities in Alaska.

Army Reserve Soldiers are part of many 

projects and services at U.S. Army 

Space and Missile Command in Colorado 

Springs, including the 8th Space Company. 

The company, organic to the 1st Space Battalion, stood up 

in October 2016. The Army is the Pentagon’s top consumer 

of space-based systems for communications, navigation, 

intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, missile 

warning and weather monitoring.

Inset: Soldiers from the 409th 

Engineer Company based out of 

Windsor cut wood to help build 

a wheelchair ramp in Ladyville, 

Belize. The Ladyville Clinic is 

one of three clinics being built 

during Beyond the Horizon 

2017, an exercise designed 

to provide humanitarian 

and engineering services to 

communities in need. (Photo by 

Spc. Kelson Brooks)

Background: Aircrews from 

the Fort Carson-based 11th 

Expeditionary Combat Aviation 

Brigade flew three CH-47 

Chinooks helicopters, specially 

outfitted with Bambi Bucket 

equipment, to assist in the 

relief efforts of those who were 

affected by the wildfires. (Photo 

by Capt. Matthew Roman)
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $5.7 Million 6 26 1,568 36

 $85,678,079 

 724 

 $25,642,511 

$65,885,671 

$34,182,816 

$3,595,757 

EAST WINDSOR

WEST HARTFORD

DANBURY

MIDDLETOWN

NEW HAVEN

BRANFORD

During their deployment to the Horn of Africa, the “Lion’s Pride” Soldiers of 

the 411th Civil Affairs Battalion engaged local populations to inventory their 

needs and gauge their support of violent extremists.

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: A civil affairs team medic with Charlie Company, 411th Civil Affairs 

Battalion, coaches SOS Village D’ Enfants – Tadjoura caretakers on how to 

perform the abdominal thrust technique during a first aid discussion group in 

Djibouti. (Photo By Staff Sgt. Gregory Williams) 

Right: A combat medic with Charlie Company, 411th Civil Affairs Battalion, 

prepares for a convoy by setting an M249 light machine gun on top of a high 

mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle at the Fort Irwin, National Training 

Center. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Gregory B. Williams)

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Teams from the “Lion’s Pride” assessed violent 

extremism and civil reconnaissance in austere locations 

throughout the country. Soldiers also worked in Uganda, 

conducting the Combat Lifesaver course as part of 

training for Uganda’s People’s Defense Force soldiers, to 

better prepare them to respond to issues in the region. 

The 325th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Battalion, 

headquartered in East Windsor, is configured to 

support combat operations at the brigade combat 

team, division and corps levels. The “Hell Cats” bring 

to the fight counterintelligence and human intelligence, 

multidiscipline intelligence operations through signals 

intelligence and linguist support.

Danbury-based 411th Civil Affairs Battalion deployed to the U.S. Africa Command’s Combined Joint 

Task Force-Horn of Africa in Djibouti in 2016. 

QUARTERMASTER

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MEDICAL

MILITARY POLICE

TRANSPORTATION

LEGAL

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

TRAINING SUPPORT

CT CAPABILITIES

CONNECTICUT
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $2.3 Million

3 11 774 15

 $34,069,743 

 310 

 $9,028,401 

$26,024,466 

$9,910,722 

$1,498,232 

OPPOSITE PAGE

Soldiers from the 946th 

Transportation Company begin 

staging 5,000 gallon tanker trucks 

of fuel for their mission at the 

Quartermaster Liquid Logistics 

Exercise 2016. (Photo by Sgt. 

James Bradford)

Soldiers of the 485th 

Chemical Battalion, based 

in Newark, is ready 

to support local first 

responders and other civil 

authorities during civil 

defense emergencies 

and natural disasters 

throughout the 

mid-Atlantic region.

NEWARK

LEWES

DOVER
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CHEMICAL

TRANSPORTATION

QUARTERMASTER

FINANCE

DE CAPABILITIES

Newark’s 485th Chemical Battalion is one of the few units in the Army capable of supporting civil 

authorities during a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear disaster. 

DELAWARE

In addition to the regular missions and exercises that 

keep the 485th combat ready and able to respond quickly 

in contingency operations, the “Rendering Excellence” 

Soldiers of the 485th train with local first responders to 

ensure rapid reaction to a domestic event. 

The 319th Movement Control Team in Dover partners with 

federal agencies, as well as state and local officials, to 

provide assistance in the event of a civil-defense mission or 

natural disaster on the east coast or the mid-Atlantic region.

Quartermaster units located in Delaware comprise the 

largest contingent of Army Reserve personnel in the state 

and focus on logistical support, providing logistical support, 

such as housing, food and clothing. 
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32

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

33 184 9,346 339

 $485,395,552 

 4,861 

 $152,313,961 

$359,624,303 

$247,186,655 

$33,860,042 

 - $31.3 Million

MILTON

PENSACOLA

PANAMA CITY [2]

TALLAHASSEE [2]

CAMP BLANDING

GAINESVILLE

PALATKA

OCALA

SANFORD

ORLANDO [4]

PINELLAS PARK

ST PETERSBURG

CLEARWATER

LAKELAND

CAPE CORAL LAKE PARK

FORT 

LAUDERDALE

PERRINE

WEST PALM 

BEACH

OPPOSITE PAGE 

Left: A signal support systems specialist serving in the 321st Military Intelligence Battalion, aims his M4 

Carbine during a weapons qualification event at Camp Blanding, Fla. (Photo by Spc. Aaron Barnes)

Right: A cargo specialist assigned to the 489th Transportation Company, Jacksonville, fires an M2 

.50-Caliber Machine Gun during a weapons qualification at the Cold Steel exercise conducted at Fort 

McCoy, Wisconsin. Operation Cold Steel is the Army Reserve’s first large-scale live-fire training and 

crew-served weapons qualification and validation exercise. (Photo by Master Sgt. Anthony Taylor)

143d 

Sustainment 

Command 

(Expeditionary), 

Orlando

350th Civil Affairs 

Command, Pensacola

Army Reserve 

Medical Command

Pinellas Park

MIAMI [2]

JACKSONVILLE [3]

TAMPA [2]

The 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment 

Command is one of only eight Army 

Reserve sustainment commands. 

The one-star command, based in 

Orlando, exercises mission command 

over more than 110 units and 

approximately 10,000 Soldiers located 

throughout 10 southeastern states. 
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MEDICAL

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

AVIATION

ENGINEER

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MILITARY POLICE

QUARTERMASTER

SIGNAL

TRAINING SUPPORT

FL CAPABILITIES

Army Reserve Medical Command, a two-star 

command headquartered in Pinellas Park, 

seamlessly synchronizes more than 100 Army 

Reserve medical units with active-component 

treatment facilities throughout the United States. 

FLORIDA

ARMEDCOM is uniquely capable of simultaneously 

providing military hospital and clinical expansion, 

augmentation, blood donor services, dental and 

veterinary services, while remaining prepared to 

rapidly provide assistance to civil authorities during an 

emergency or disaster. 

The143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, a 

one-star command based in Orlando, exercises mission 

command over more than 110 units and approximately 

10,000 Soldiers located throughout 10 southeastern 

states. The 143rd ESC is one of only eight Army Reserve 

sustainment commands. 

The 350th Civil Affairs Command in Pensacola has more 

than 1,100 Soldier and civilian experts who coordinate 

with civilian authorities and governments in the wake 

of conflicts or natural disasters. Veterinarians with the 

350th train with local law enforcement agencies, training 

K9 teams from the Pensacola Police Department and the 

Florida Highway Patrol on assessing injury or trauma to 

working dogs.
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $30.3 Million 23 138 7,524 326

 $530,090,113 

 5,167 

 $161,320,133 

$347,566,918 

$219,369,064 

$32,561,575 

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: A Soldier fires his rifle during 

the Division Level Army Best 

Warrior Competition held at Fort 

Benning, Georgia. (Photo by Staff 

Sgt. Ashley Jones) 

Right: Soldier with Fort Stewart’s 

51st Chemical Biological 

Radiological Nuclear Company 

removes his chemical suit for 

decontamination during the 2017 

Guardian Response exercise at 

the Muscatatuck Urban Training 

Center, Indiana. (Photo by Master 

Sgt. Michel Sauret)

Forest Park’s Army Medical 

Department Directory 

Professional Management 

Command manages the Army 

Reserve’s inventory of highlyskill medical professionals, 

such as experts in specialized 

surgery. The command also 

manages Army Reservesupported medical students as 

they matriculate towards their 

professional credentials.

ROME GAINESVILLE

STATHAM

DECATUR

AUGUSTA /

FORT GORDON [3]

MACON

FORT VALLEY

FORT BENNING

TIFTON

WARNER ROBBINS

DUBLIN

SAVANNAH /

FORT STEWART [3]

ATHENS

ATLANTA [3]

MARIETTA

FOREST PARK/

FORT GILLEM

98th Training Division 

(iet), Fort Benning

335th Signal Command 

(Theater), East Point

3rd Medical Command 

(Deployment Support), 

Forest Park
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One of four theater signal commands in the 

Army, the 335th SC (T) has the distinction of 

serving in Iraq and Afghanistan longer than 

any other command in the Army Reserve, 

with a mission is to support overseas land 

operations by planning, engineering, installing, 

maintaining and defending the Army’s sector of 

the Global Information Grid in southwest Asia.

Headquartered in Forest Park, the 3rd Medical 

Command provides support and supervision 

to more than 6,000 Soldiers located in 21 

states and Puerto Rico. The “Desert Medics” 

deliver state-of-the-art combat healthcare to 

U.S. service members and other personnel in 

accordance with medical rules of engagement. 

In addition to the combat hospitals designed to provide 

field medicine overseas for humanitarian and military 

operations, the command group deploys as a twostar, theater-wide mission command team for military 

medical operations, support and logistics.

The 335th Signal Command (Theater), based in East Point, provides signal and cyber units in direct 

support of Third Army, Army Central Command in South Asia, and for homeland defense missions. 

GEORGIA GA CAPABILITIES

SIGNAL (CBT CAMERA)

QUARTERMASTER 

(AERIAL DELIVERY)

LOGISTICS

MEDICAL

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

ENGINEER

CHEMICAL

PERSONNEL SERVICES

TRAINING SUPPORT
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

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NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

5 50 2,248 103

 $145,873,211 

 1,280 

 $44,683,972 

$123,606,336 

$92,012,048 

$10,287,859 

 - $10.8 Million

HILO

WAILUKU

FORT SHAFTER [2]

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS

9th Mission Support 

Command, Fort Shafter

311th Signal Command 

(Theater), Fort Shafter

HONOLULU

OPPOSITE PAGE (left to right)

100th Battalion Soldiers participate in amphibious landing training with multi-national armies and marines during Exercise 

Croix du Sud, Plum, New Caledonia. Croix du Sud, a multinational military exercise organized every two years by the French 

Armed Forces. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Chanelcherie DeMello)

“Go for Broke” Soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion donned Ghillie suits before setting up mock ambushes of opposing 

forces during their annual training at the Kahuku Training Area. The 100th earned its legendary status during WWII’s Italian 

campaign. Many of the battalion’s Soldiers were of Japanese extraction with family members resettled into federallymanaged camps during the war. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Gail Lapitan)

Two Army Reserve Infantryman with Delta Company, 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment, fire their assigned M2 

Browning .50-caliber machine gun during a qualification range at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. (Photo by Sgt. Joshua Pepin)

The bond between the Army Reserve and people 

of Hawaii was forged during the Second World War, 

when Japanese-American Soldiers volunteered 

to fight for the United States in the “Go for Broke” 

100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment.
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MEDICAL

SIGNAL

LOGISTICS

ENGINEER

QUARTERMASTER

TRANSPORTATION

INFANTRY

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Honolulu’s 9th Mission Support Command is 

aligned operationally with U.S. Army Pacific 

Command to provide forces for overseas 

operations. The “Pride of the Pacific” includes 

Soldiers from Hawaii, Alaska, American Samoa, 

Japan, Korea, Guam and Saipan. 

HAWAII

Soldiers of the 9th MSC train in 20 exercises a year, 

with active-component units and foreign military forces. 

Among its subordinate commands are an Army hospital, 

combat engineers, military police, infantry and civil 

affairs, as well as the Army Reserve mariners manning 

Logistical Support Vessel Staff Sgt. Robert T. Kuroda.

The 311th Signal Command (Theater) is headquartered 

at Fort Shafter and plans, installs, operates, maintains, 

secures and defends Army networks throughout the 

Pacific Theater. 

The Army Reserve is forever bound to Hawaii

through the legacy of the more than 1,400 

Japanese-Americans who enlisted into 

the Army Reserve’s 100th Battalion, 

442nd Regimental Combat Team

following the attack on Pearl 

Harbor, even as their families 

in Hawaii were interned 

during World War II. 
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NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $2.5 Million

7 16 903 53

 $28,155,110 

 293 

 $8,820,515 

$28,348,875 

$18,529,528 

$5,293,753 

OPPOSITE PAGE

Soldiers from Boise’s 321st 

Engineer Battalion conduct 

explosives training at 

Orchard Combat Training 

Center. (Photo by Sgt. 

Demetrio Montoya)

When deployed to an overseas 

contingency, Soldiers of the 

1016th Quartermaster Company 

are petroleum delivery specialists 

trained to build out the pipes 

and hubs to create full fuel 

distribution infrastructures. 

HAYDEN [2]

TWIN FALLS

POCATELLO [2]

BOISE [2]
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The 1016th Quartermaster Company, in Twin Falls, is a 

highly-specialized petroleum pipeline and terminal facility unit 

that is critical to getting Soldiers and equipment to the fight. 

Units such as the 1016th bring unique skill sets to the fight and are 

ready to mobilize and deploy in on short notice. In addition to 

pipeline management, the company’s petroleum supply specialists 

pack, load and move pipeline more than 100 miles within one day.

The combat engineers of the Boise-based 321st Engineer Battalion

bring lethality to the battlefield with their mastery of explosives 

and the movement of heavy equipment. The battalion’s combat 

medics routinely train with the Idaho National Guard at an 

18-day Sapper Advanced Tactical Medical Course that 

emulates the Special Forces curriculum.

IDAHO QUARTERMASTER

ENGINEER

TRANSPORTATION

ORDNANCE (AMMO)

TRAINING SUPPORT

ID CAPABILITIES
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $22.4 Million 24 147 7,113 250

 $408,352,541 

 3,204 

 $121,054,002 

$257,103,695 

$151,467,431 

$24,970,533 

LAKE FOREST MACHESNEY PARK

HIGHLAND PARK

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS

AURORA DARIEN

FOREST PARK

HOMEWOOD

ELWOOD

ROCK ISLAND 

ARSENAL [2]

PERU

CANTON

QUINCY [2]

BARTONVILLE

BLOOMINGTON

URBANA

DECATUR SPRINGFIELD

GRANITE CITY

BELLEVILLE

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE

MT. VERNON

CHICAGO

OPPOSITE PAGE

Combat engineers from Granite 

City’s 739th Engineer Company 

along with Soldiers from the 

652nd Engineer Company, 

secure a shoreline of Big 

Sandy Lake for Ribbon Bridge 

operations during a Combat 

Support Training Exercise at 

Fort McCoy, Wis. (Photo by Spc. 

John Russell)

Exercise Anakonda 

16 demonstrates 

allied defense 

capabilities to deploy, 

mass and sustain 

combat power.

85th USAR Support 

Command, 

Arlington Heights

416th Theater 

Engineering Command, 

Darien 

Great Lakes Training 

Division, 75th 

Training Command, 

Fort Sheridan

USAR Support 

Command 1st Army, 

Rock Island
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MEDICAL

QUARTERMASTER

TRANSPORTATION

PERSONNEL SERVICES

LOGISTICS

ENGINEER

MILITARY POLICE

MISO

CIVIL AFFAIRS

TRAINING SUPPORT

IL CAPABILITIES

Observer coach/trainers with the 3rd Battalion of the 

335th Training Support Regiment, 85th Support 

Command, based out of Fort Sheridan, recently began 

a one-year mobilization at Fort Hood, Texas to train and 

equip Army Reserve and National Guard units ahead of 

overseas deployments in support of operational needs 

of the Army and our joint partners.

Decatur’s 236th Inland Cargo Transportation Company

participated in Anakonda 16, a Polish-led multinational 

training exercise, conducted every two years and designed 

to train and integrate Poland’s national command and 

force structures into an allied, joint and multinational 

environment. The exercise further supports assurance 

and deterrence measures by demonstrating allied defense 

capabilities to deploy, mass and sustain combat power.

Combat engineers with the 416th Theater Engineer Command, located in Darien, stand ready to deliver 

theater-level engineer operations in contingency operations, while also being ready to partner 

domestically with state and local officials in support of the Defense Support of Civil Authorities program. 

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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

- $9.6 Million 20 73 3,370 129

 $147,247,311 

 1,289 

 $43,825,059 

$110,106,996 

$69,045,753 

$12,884,795 

INDIANAPOLIS

HOBART

MICHIGAN CITY SOUTH BEND [3]

KINGSBURY

RICHMOND

TERRE HAUTE [2]

EDINBURGH [2]

FRANKLIN

BLOOMINGTON

SCOTTSBURG

EVANSVILLE

JEFFERSONVILLE

FORT WAYNE

GRISSOM AFB

LAFAYETTE

The Core mission of the 

310th ESC is to provide 

an Operational Command 

Post of the Theater 

Sustainment Command.

OPPOSITE PAGE 

Left: Military police Soldiers from various 

Midwest states shoot the M240B machine gun at 

a qualification range at Camp Atterbury during a 

multi-day training event. The 384th Military Police 

Battalion, headquartered at Fort Wayne, Ind., 

organized the three-day range and field training 

exercises. (Photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret) 

Right: Soldiers with the 468th Fire Fighting 

Detachment participate in simulated nuclear attack 

training at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, 

during the second phase of Guardian Response 

17. Nearly 5,000 Soldiers and Airmen from across 

the country participated in Guardian Response 17. 

(Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Sofia) 

310th Sustainment Command 

(Expeditionary), Indianapolis
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INDIANA

Guardian Response 2017, led by the Army Reserve’s 78th Training Division and the 

84th Training Command, brought nearly 5,000 Active Duty, Army Reserve and 

National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from across the country to Muscatatuck Urban 

Training Center, the 1,000-acre urban training facility, located near Butlerville. 

Guardian Response 2017 was a multi-component training 

exercise designed to validate the military’s ability to 

support civil authorities in the event of a Chemical, 

Biological, Radiological and 

Nuclear catastrophe. The exercise 

scenarios simulated an array 

of extraordinary crises in the 

homeland, including severe 

earthquakes and the detonation of 

a “dirty” nuclear bomb. Army Reserve 

Soldiers are trained, equipped and organized 

to perform a full range of operations

—including disaster response. 

IN CAPABILITIES

MEDICAL

LOGISTICS

TRANSPORTATION

QUARTERMASTER

MILITARY POLICE

ENGINEER

MISO

ORDNANCE

TRAINING SUPPORT
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

- $7.3 Million 18 59 2,780 102

 $94,861,901 

 981 

 $29,023,190 

$84,093,742 

$48,326,236 

$10,187,977 OPPOSITE PAGE (clockwise from lower left)

Combat engineer Soldiers attached to Des 

Moines’ 402nd Engineer Company Sappers, lay 

a blockade of concertina wire during exercise 

Allied Spirit V at the Joint Multinational 

Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany. (Photo 

by Sgt. Karen Sampson) 

Soldiers with 445th Transportation Company 

from Waterloo, scan the distance for enemy 

movement, during the 91st Training Division-led 

Combat Support Training Exercise on Fort 

Hunter Liggett, Calif. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class 

Jason Hudson)

Firefighters of the 467th Engineer Detachment 

- Firefighting based in Des Moines listen to 

last-minute instructions from the Army Reserve 

firefighter team leader before entering a building 

fire while training at Fort Hunter Liggett. (Photo 

by Michael Guterl)

The Des Moines-based 467th Engineer Battalion firefighters deployed 

to Romania’s Mihail Kogalniceanu International Airport, supporting 

NATO operations associated with Operation Atlantic Resolve.

SIOUX CITY

CHEROKEE

SAC CITY

POCAHONTAS

FORT DODGE CEDAR FALLS

WATERLOO DUBUQUE

AMES

COUNCIL BLUFFS

IOWA CITY

DAVENPORT

MUSCATINE

WASHINGTON [2]

MIDDLETOWN

CEDAR RAPIDS

DES MOINES

103rd Sustainment 

Command (Expeditionary), 

Des Moines 
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MILITARY POLICE

MEDICAL

ENGINEER

LOGISTICS

TRANSPORTATION

QUARTERMASTER

TRAINING SUPPORT

IA CAPABILITIES

Today the command 

is composed of 

approximately 

6,000 Soldiers from 

throughout the 

Midwest. These 

logistics Soldiers 

are ready to 

sustain warfighters 

globally—a 

detachment of 

the 387th Human 

Resource Company 

from Dodge City was 

deployed to Kuwait in 

2017. Over the past 

decade and a half, 

many of the 103rd’s 

Warrior Citizens have 

also deployed to Iraq 

and Afghanistan.

Firefighters of the 467th Engineer Battalion, also in 

Des Moines, are now deployed to Romania’s Mihail 

Kogalniceanu International Airport, supporting Operation 

Freedom Sentinel in Afghanistan, the successor mission to 

Operation Enduring Freedom, as well as NATO operations 

associated with Operation Atlantic Resolve. The 467th is 

responsible for firefighting and lifesaving at that critical 

airport, as well as supporting local first responders.

The 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), from Des Moines, is the legacy of the “Cactus 

Division,” which landed in southern France in 1944 and then marched through Germany’s Siegfried Line. 

IOWA
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

- $11.3 Million 23 76 3,818 204

 $161,436,417 

 1,444 

 $45,430,467 

$129,818,749 

$72,523,502 

$20,375,955 OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: Soldiers from the Wichita based 451st Expeditionary 

Sustainment Command fire their weapons at a weapons 

qualification range in Kuwait. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class 

Naurys Marte) 

Right: A combat engineer from Dodge City’s 364th Engineer Company (Sapper) jumps 

out of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter flown by Bravo Company, 7th Battalion, 158th 

Aviation Regiment, out of Fort Hood, Texas, during the annual River Assault exercise. 

(Photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)

The 451st Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), headquartered 

in Wichita, has mission command of Midwest-based sustainment 

brigades and provides combat support and combat service support in 

the areas of supply, maintenance, transportation, field services and 

battalions that provide medical, general engineering and construction, 

smoke generation, biological detection and decontamination support.

DODGE CITY

HAYS

GREAT BEND

HUTCHINSON

SALINA

MANHATTAN

FORT RILEY

LEAVENWORTH

TOPEKA [2] KANSAS CITY [2]

LAWRENCE DE SOTO

NEW CENTURY [3]

OSAGE CITY

EMPORIA

PITTSBURG

PARSONS

INDEPENDENCE

WICHITA

451st Sustainment Command 

(Expeditionary), Wichita
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MEDICAL

AVIATION

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

QUARTERMASTER

TRANSPORTATION

MILITARY POLICE

LOGISTICS

PERSONNEL SERVICES

TRAINING SUPPORT

KS CAPABILITIES

In response, elements of the Army Reserve Aviation 

Command manned, equipped and executed their first ever 

air mission within 30 hours of alert. Under Immediate 

Response Authority, three CH-47 Chinook helicopters 

with crews and support personnel comprised of over 

23 Soldiers, military technicians and Department of 

the Army civilians from the 11th Expeditionary Combat 

Aviation Brigade, assisted federal, state and local 

authorities combating the 2017 wildfires that scorched 

more than 15 counties.

The Army Reserve also provides the Army with 42 

percent of its firefighting capabilities. Army Reserve 

firefighters in Kansas, along with active-component and 

civilian-sector firefighters participate in a two-week 

training program hosted by the Kansas Fire and Rescue 

Training Institutes. 

The 451st Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), 

headquartered in Wichita, has more than 4,000 Soldiers 

throughout America’s heartland. The 451st ESC has 

mission command of Midwest-based sustainment 

brigades and provides combat support and combat 

service support in the areas of supply, maintenance, 

transportation, field services and the functional brigades 

or battalions that provide medical, general engineering 

and construction, smoke generation, biological detection 

and decontamination support.

When wildfires erupted across the grass plains of Kansas, their rapid spread forced firefighters 

to reach out for help. 

KANSAS
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

- $24.0 Million 22 97 4,733 343

 $352,686,078 

 3,328 

 $102,663,879 

$275,124,748 

$161,401,239 

$34,259,571 OPPOSITE PAGE (left to right)

The Fort Knox-based Army Reserve Aviation Command provides 

air traffic services, airfield management, aeromedical evacuation, 

combat aviation brigade reinforcement and theater aviation support 

for military operations.

LOUISVILLE [2]

LEXINGTON [2]

PADUCAH

OWENSBORO

HOPKINSVILLE

MADISONVILLE

FORT KNOX [3]

BARDSTOWN

ALBANY

SOMERSET

FORT 

THOMAS

ASHLAND

BLUE GRASS

ARMY DEPOT [2]

CORBIN

84th Training Command, Fort Knox

Army Reserve Aviation Command, Fort Knox

100th Training Division, Fort Knox

BOWLING GREEN

FORT CAMPBELL [2]

Soldiers with the 979th Mobility Augmentation 

Company, based in Lexington emplace a Bangalore 

torpedo during the company’s training at Wilcox 

Range on Fort Knox. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class 

Clinton Wood)

 A Soldier with 979th Mobility Augmentation 

Company, based in Lexington engages a target 

with his M2 .50-caliber machine gun during a 

Gunnery crew live-fire qualification at Wilcox 

Range on Fort Knox. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class 

Clinton Wood)

A M136 Volcano weapons system of the 979th 

Mobility Augmentation Company, 478th Engineer 

Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, 412th Theater 

Engineer Command, emplaces training mines 

during the company’s training at Wilcox Range on 

Fort Knox. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Clinton Wood)
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ENGINEER

CHEMICAL

MILITARY POLICE

AVIATION

TRAINING SUPPORT

KY CAPABILITIES

The ARAC provides air traffic services, airfield 

management, aeromedical evacuation, combat aviation 

brigade reinforcement and theater aviation support for 

military operations. 

In furtherance of the Defense Support of Civilian 

Authorities program, ARAC supports all FEMA regions 

and is ready to assist local first responders during natural 

disasters or civil emergencies. In March 2016, aircrews 

from the 11th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade 

flew three CH-47 Chinook helicopters with Bambi Bucket 

equipment to Kansas to assist in the March 2017 wildfire 

relief efforts.

Fort Knox’s 84th Training Command executes 

the Army Reserve’s Combat Support 

Training Program, ensuring that units 

from across the Army are ready to deliver 

and sustain lethality against America’s 

enemies. The program is composed of 

Warrior Exercises and Combat Support 

Training Exercises. These large-scale tactical 

training environments are planned to closely 

duplicate what Soldiers might experience in 

operational deployments.

The Army Reserve Aviation Command, headquartered at Fort Knox, exercises mission command over 

all Army Reserve aviation assets. 

KENTUCKY
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

- $7.4 Million 9 49 2,145 125

 $101,574,170 

 1,044 

 $32,110,479 

$85,006,114 

$49,641,759 

$12,485,266 

Crane operators and other 

port operations Soldiers of 

the 441st Transportation 

Company (Seaport 

Operations) are critical 

to the Army’s ability to 

load cargo, vehicles 

and equipment from 

marine transportation.

BOSSIER CITY MONROE

FORT POLK

BOGALUSA

HAMMOND

LAKE CHARLES LAFAYETTE

BELLE CHASSE

BATON ROUGE [2]

NEW ORLEANS [6]

377th Theater 

Sustainment 

Command, 

New Orleans

OPPOSITE PAGE

Top left: A Soldier with the 377th Theater Support Command, fires an 

M2 .50-caliber machine gun for ground qualification during exercise 

Cold Steel. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Debralee Best) 

Bottom left: A Soldier with the 377th Theater Support Command, waits 

his turn to fire the MK19 automatic grenade launcher during the Cold 

Steel exercise. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Debralee Best)
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The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, crafted 

in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, provided new 

authority for Army Reserve Soldiers to support lead 

civilian agencies for domestic 

emergencies and disaster relief 

efforts. Soldiers from the 377th 

were the among the first to mobilize in 

support of Superstorm Sandy, where three 

tactical water distribution units carried dozens 

of segments of heavy hose nearly 1,000 

yards in 40 degree temperatures to safely 

redistribute standing water to the ocean.

In its wartime role, the 377th TSC 

deploys as theater-wide combat 

support and combat service support 

infrastructure, with the troops 

providing ammunition, bulk water and 

petroleum management, along with 

parachute rigging and laundry services 

and hygiene facilities.

Belle Chase is host to the Army Reserve’s 

largest command, the 377th Theater 

Sustainment Command. Settled in the New 

Orleans area since 1948, it currently exercises 

mission command over more than 35,000 

Soldiers and civilian professionals and more 

than 405 units across 35 states.

LOUISIANA

MEDICAL

LOGISTICS

FINANCE

QUARTERMASTER

LEGAL

TRANSPORTATION

TRAINING SUPPORT

Above: A crane operator with 

the New Orleans based 441st 

Transportation Company 

(Seaport Operations), moves 

cargo containers that are 

being transported to a 

tractor trailer for distribution 

during Big Logistics-OverThe-Shore (LOTS). (Photos 

by Spc. Sye Ellis)

LA CAPABILITIES
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

39 8159

 $13,323,913 

 126 

 $4,255,827 

$13,225,210 

$11,134,306 

$898,939 

 - $1.2 Million

Auburn-based drill 

sergeants of the 3rd 

Battalion of the 304th 

Regiment annually 

mobilize to the United 

States Military Academy 

at West Point, New York, 

where they train and 

coach cadets in support 

of the academy’s military 

instruction department.

BANGOR

DEXTER

AUBURN

SACO
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TRAINING SUPPORT

ME CAPABILITIES

The Auburn-based 619th Transportation Company convoyed trucks more than 1,300 miles each way, 

to and from Fort McCoy, Wisconsin for the May 2017 Warrior Exercise. 

Below: Drill Sergeants from 

Auburn’s 3rd Battalion, 304th 

Infantry Regiment, 104th 

Training Division (LT), such as 

this one, teaches individual 

movement techniques to new 

cadets performing Combat 

Basic Training at the United 

States Military Academy at West 

Point. (Photo by Master Sgt. 

Class Brian Hamilton)

MAINE

The 619th provided logistical support 

and participated in combat scenarios, 

including unscripted ambushes, IED 

events and other attacks and tactical 

challenges.

The military instructors of the Army 

Reserve 3-304th Training Battalion, 

located in Lewiston, are tasked 

with teaching gunnery and 

other Soldier skills to the 

cadets at the United States 

Military Academy, West Point, 

N.Y. In 2017, the drill sergeants 

joined the academy’s military 

instructors to coordinate and 

evaluate the International 

Sandhurst Competition, where 

37 cadet teams from the other 

four service academies, ROTC 

programs and foreign military 

officer training programs 

competed in military tactics and skills. 

In addition to the Sandhurst tourney and 

new cadet summer indoctrination, the 

3-304th Soldiers also contribute to cadet 

training throughout the year as required 

by the USMA staff.

Left: A truck driver from Old 

Town, Maine, checks chains 

holding Canadian Army light 

utility vehicles wheeled on a 

trailer at Garrison Petawawa, 

before an early morning convoy 

to Kapuskasing, Ontario during 

the annual Maple Caravan 

exercise hosted by the Canadian 

Army. (Photo by Sgt. Jon Soles)
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $18.8 Million 18 113 5,181 179

 $276,297,491 

 2,252 

 $79,892,492 

$215,797,070 

$134,091,854 

$17,878,901 OPPOSITE PAGE

A military police Soldier from the 200th Military Police Command, 

headquartered at Fort Meade, stands with a display High Mobility 

Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee, during a celebration for the 

Army Reserve’s 109th birthday. (Photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)

The 200th Military Police 

Command, headquartered 

at Fort Meade, is the largest 

military police organization in 

the Department of Defense, a 

command with 14,000 Soldiers 

located across the continental 

United States.

CUMBERLAND

OWINGS MILLS FORT DETRICK ABINGDON

GAITHERSBURG

ADELPHI

ROCKVILLE FORT MEADE [4]

RIVERDALE

UPPER MARLBORO

WHITE PLAINS

BALTIMORE [4]

U.S. Army Reserve Legal Command, Gaithersburg

200th Military Police Command, Fort Meade

352nd Civil Affairs Command, Fort Meade

ABERDEEN

PROVING GROUND

ABERDEEN

PROVING GROUND
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LEGAL

INTELLIGENCE

CYBERSECURITY

MEDICAL

CIVIL AFFAIRS

TRANSPORTATION

MILITARY POLICE

MISO

SIGNAL

QUARTERMASTER

TRAINING SUPPORT

The Army Reserve Legal Command, located in 

Gaithersburg, is responsible for 87 percent of all Army 

legal units, with legal professionals that include judge 

advocates, warrant officers, paralegal noncommissioned 

officers, junior Soldiers and civilian paralegals. 

The 200th Military Police Command, headquartered at 

Fort Meade, is the largest military police organization 

in the Department of Defense, responsible for 14,000 

Soldiers located across the continental United States. Its 

Soldiers make up 24 percent of the Army’s military police 

force, specializing in detainee operations, internment 

and resettlement, criminal investigation, combat support 

and law enforcement. Military police cannot enforce the 

rule of law in the homeland, but they can support local 

law enforcement during times of crisis through their 

experience in planning and strategy.

When deployed in combat operations, Rockville’s 422nd 

Medical Detachment (Veterinary Services) cares for 

military working dogs. Soldiers of the 422nd also ensure 

the sanitary integrity of food and hygiene facilities. In 

July 2016, the detachment’s Soldiers established a free 

veterinary clinic in Chenango County, N.Y. as part of the 

Pentagon’s Innovative Readiness Training program. 

This DoD program gives reserve-component personnel 

real-world, unscripted training, while helping 

America’s underserved communities.

Maryland is the home of a huge assortment of Army Reserve units, specializing in a diverse array 

of skills and services. 

MARYLAND

Citizen Soldiers assigned to Maryland’s 

Information Operations Command are defenders 

of the Army’s information systems and computer 

networks, specializing in scanning computer 

networks for vulnerabilities, providing security 

training and conducting computer forensics.
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $11.5 Million 17 71 3,490 117

 $176,086,036 

 1,507 

 $52,604,088 

$131,667,904 

$67,997,568 

$11,686,209 

OPPOSITE PAGE (left to right)

Firefighters with the 468th Engineer Detachment, Danvers, carry a casualty to safety 

after being rescued from a train derailment exercise, part of Guardian Response 17 at 

Muscatatuck Urban Training Center. (Photo by Cpl. Matthew Atwood)

A competitor in the 80th Training Command and 99th Regional Support Command’s Best 

Warrior Competition, fires an M9 pistol during a qualification range, at Fort Devens. (Photo 

by Staff Sgt. Timothy Koster)

A Dedham native and operating room technician with the 399th Combat Support Hospital 

sutures a simulated patient during an exercise at the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary 

Simulation Center. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrea Merritt)

Lt. Col. Kevin K. Parker, Soldier and Harvard University bioengineer, developed 

a new method of spinning nanofibers that produces dramatically lighter, 

stronger ballistic protection in helmets and body armor. Parker’s research is 

motivated by his own combat tours as an airborne infantryman in Afghanistan.

PITTSFIELD

WESTOVER AIR

RESERVE BASE

DEVENS RESERVE

FORCES TNG AREA

AYER [3]

WORCESTER

DANVERS

HINGHAM

BROCKTON [2]

ATTLEBORO

TAUNTON [2]

BOSTON [3]
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Massachusetts is home to Army Reserve Lt. Col. Kit Parker, a Harvard University professor 

of bioengineering and applied physics. 

MASSACHUSETTS

Parker developed a new method of spinning nanofibers 

that produces dramatically lighter, stronger ballistic 

protection in helmets and body armor. Parker’s research 

is motivated by his own combat tours as an airborne 

infantryman in Afghanistan.

Regional Training Site-Maintenance Devens is located 

45 miles north of Boston and one mile from Fort Devens. 

Part of the 80th Training Command, RTS-M Devens is 

an accredited training institution and One Army School 

System training site, which means that all of its courses 

are available to active-duty and reserve component 

Soldiers. The site’s mobile training teams also travel 

to other units throughout the Northeast, including the 

10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.

TRANSPORTATION

INTELLIGENCE

CYBERSECURITY

MEDICAL

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

QUARTERMASTER

TRAINING SUPPORT

MA CAPABILITIES
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $12.4 Million 17 70 3,881 102

 $201,881,316 

 2,031 

 $63,872,564 

$142,980,510 

$73,291,136 

$10,187,977 

MARQUETTE

TRAVERSE CITY

BAY CITY

SAGINAW

MUSKEGON

GRAND RAPIDS

LANSING WATERFORD

FRASER

SOUTHFIELD

AUGUSTA

PORTAGE

JACKSON ANN ARBOR LIVONIA

INKSTER

WARREN

DETROIT

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: A Soldier 

with Headquarters 

and Headquarters 

Company, 406th Combat 

Sustainment Support 

Battalion, Ann Arbor, 

checks head-space and 

timing on his weapon 

in preparation for night 

live-fire qualification 

during the Cold Steel 

exercise. (Photo by Staff 

Sgt. Debralee Best) 

Right: This Highland 

Park Army military 

police Soldier, the city’s 

first female interior 

firefighter, just completed 

a firefighter training 

simulation event. 

(Photo by Sgt. 

Stephanie Ramirez)

In Grand Rapids, the 

301st Quartermaster 

Company is trained 

and equipped to 

produce up to 98,000 

gallons of water a day 

using Tactical Water 

Purification Systems.
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MILITARY POLICE

QUARTERMASTER

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MI CAPABILITIES

In order to build wartime proficiency, the 406th 

recently participated in the Cold Steel exercise, 

the largest live-fire exercise in the history of the 

Army Reserve. 

The headquarters company deploys as a 

command and control module with or without 

its organic elements. The battalion’s 182nd 

Transportation Company in Traverse City 

operates line-haul and bulk-delivery trucks 

and Soldiers at its detachment in 

Bay City are trained for quick 

deployment, independent from 

the rest of the battalion.

In Grand Rapids, the 

301st Quartermaster 

Company is trained 

and equipped to 

produce up to 98,000 

gallons of water a 

day using Tactical 

Water Purification Systems. 

This capability is a valuable asset 

to commanders as well as to 

local officials when needed for 

Defense Support of Civil Authorities.

Ann Arbor’s 406th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion stands ready to deploy in support 

of combat and humanitarian operations. 

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60

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

12 53 3,414 117

 $143,779,848 

 1,190 

 $42,619,446 

$101,329,030 

$65,727,936 

$11,686,209 

 - $8.8 Million

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Left: Soldiers with 

the 492nd Engineer 

Company, based out 

of Mankato, cover 

plumbing for a septic 

system while building 

a new clinic during 

Beyond the Horizon 

2017, in Ladyville, 

Belize. (Photo by Spc. 

Kelson Brooks)

Right: Trainers 

assigned to the 7212th 

Medical Support 

Unit monitor how 

the military medical 

team handles patient 

care, while they 

manipulate vital signs 

and responses of 

smart mannequins 

at the Mayo Clinic 

Multidisciplinary 

Simulation Center 

located in Rochester. 

(Photo by Lt. Col. 

Angela Wallace) 

The 847th Human 

Resources Company, 

3rd Postal Platoon, from 

Fort Snelling played a 

morale-boosting role 

for troops deployed 

to Operation Freedom 

Sentinel in Afghanistan.

DULUTH

BRAINERD

CAMBRIDGE SAINT JOSEPH

BUFFALO WILLMAR

FORT SNELLING

MANKATO WABASHA

ROCHESTER

WORTHINGTON

MINNEAPOLIS
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These units reflect the transformation of the Army 

Reserve’s medical units into smaller, more specialized 

units, aligned to support the active component’s staffing 

and rotation requirements.

Mankato’s 492nd Engineer Company is a combat-ready 

vertical and horizontal construction unit that has received 

recognition for its accomplishments during deployments 

to Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in the 2017 support 

of U.S. Southern Command’s 

humanitarian mission 

in Belize.

The 847th Human Resources 

Company, 3rd Postal 

Platoon, from Fort Snelling 

played a morale-boosting 

role for troops deployed to 

Operation Freedom Sentinel 

in Afghanistan. Mobile postal 

stations were dispatched to 

forward operating bases from 

their postal hub at Jalalabad 

Airfield, to deliver 150 pounds 

of mail across the country’s 

mountainous terrain via rotary 

wing aircraft.

Soldiers of the 7405th Troop Medical Clinic and the 7212th 

Medical Support Unit, both at the Arden Hills Army Training 

Site, trained in March 2017 with the Air Force’s 934th 

Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, treating simulated 

injuries and supporting tactical airlift evacuation. 

MINNESOTA

MEDICAL

CHEMICAL

ENGINEERS

CIVIL AFFAIRS

LEGAL

TRANSPORTATION

MISO

MILITARY POLICE

TRAINING SUPPORT

MN CAPABILITIES
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $7.9 Million 17 51 2,600 119

 $106,568,698 

 1,156 

 $32,540,945 

$90,916,715 

$50,616,071 

$11,885,974 

LYON TUPELO

GREENVILLE

GREENWOOD STARKVILLE

VICKSBURG MERIDIAN

LAUREL

BROOKHAVEN

HATTIESBURG

CAMP SHELBY

GULFPORT [2] PASCAGOULA

JACKSON [3]

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: Soldiers with 

Headquarters and 

Headquarters Company, 

412th Theater Engineer 

Command form a color guard 

to march in the 38th-annual 

Memorial Day Parade in 

Vicksburg. (Photo by Sgt. 1st 

Class Clinton Wood).

Right: A Soldier with 

Vicksburg’s 412th Theater 

Engineer Command, 

engages a target with a 

Squad Automatic Weapon 

(SAW) during the Combined 

Best Warrior Competition 

SAW Night Qualification on 

Joint Base McGuire-DixLakehurst, N.J. (Photo by Sgt. 

1st Class Clinton Wood) 

Mississippi 

transportation 

companies are 

capable of moving 

supplies, troops and 

equipment anywhere 

around the globe.

412th Theater Engineer 

Command, Vicksburg 
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The 412th TEC’s command group is a mission-control 

suite that mobilizes separately or with one or more of 

its three engineer brigades, comprising 12,000 Soldiers 

throughout the eastern United States. 

Mississippi-based 173rd, 894th, and 658th quartermaster 

companies, which support the development, production, 

acquisition and sustainment of general supply and 

materials, as well as, petroleum and water, and 

distribution management to the Army.

Additional Mississippi units include the 647th, 850th, 

and 296th transportation companies, which are capable 

of moving supplies, troops and equipment anywhere 

around the globe. In wartime, the transportation corps 

uses trucks, boats and airplanes to provide extremely fast 

support to combat teams on the frontlines.

The 412th Theater Engineer Command, headquartered in Vicksburg, provides engineering assets 

required by the Army and the Joint Force in support of global requirements, as well as critical support 

for domestic emergencies and disaster relief efforts. 

MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION

MEDICAL

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

LOGISTICS

QUARTERMASTER

PERSONNEL SERVICES

LEGAL

TRAINING SUPPORT

MS CAPABILITIES
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $14.3 Million 21 108 5,930 233

 $227,632,033 

 2,030 

 $64,974,316 

$164,444,995 

$95,998,193 

$23,272,537 

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Military police 

Soldiers with the 

354th Military Police 

Company from St. 

Louis participate in 

reflexive fire training 

during the annual 

Guardian Justice 

exercise. (Photo by 

Sgt. Audrey Hayes) 

The 10th Psychological 

Operations Battalion, based 

at Jefferson Barracks, was 

established in 1967 as the part 

of the Army’s hearts and minds 

campaign in Vietnam. Today, the 

Greek letter Delta is centered 

on the battalion’s crest as an 

homage to the Mekong Delta.

BETHANY

JOPLIN

SPRINGFIELD [2]

FORT LEONARD WOOD [2] FARMINGTON

KIRKSVILLE

SAINT JOSEPH

INDEPENDENCE

BELTON [2]

COLUMBIA

SAINT CHARLES

JEFFERSON CITY WASHINGTON

102nd Training Division 

[Maneuver Support], 

Fort Leonard Wood

KANSAS CITY [2]

ST LOUIS [2]
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In 2016 medical professionals from the Independence-based 325th Combat Support Hospital deployed 

to U.S. Southern Command at Sota Cano, Honduras to support humanitarian outreach in Latin America 

with regular visits throughout the region, including El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama. 

MISSOURI TRANSPORTATION

MEDICAL

ENGINEER

LOGISTICS

QUARTERMASTER

PERSONNEL SERVICES

TRAINING SUPPORT

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MISO

These visits brought locals dental, optical and surgical 

services, preventative medicine and physical therapy. 

The Army Reserve provides the majority of the Army’s 

medical capabilities, honing specialized skills in cities 

like Independence and bringing needed expertise to 

combatant commanders across the globe.

The 10th Psychological Operations Battalion, based at 

Jefferson Barracks, was established in 1967 as the part 

of the Army’s hearts and minds campaign in the Vietnam. 

Today, the Greek letter Delta is centered on the battalion’s 

crest as an homage to the Mekong Delta.
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $2.3 Million 8 22 1,324 33

 $28,020,521 

 322 

 $9,065,646 

$26,416,478 

$15,553,358 

$3,296,110 OPPOSITE PAGE

A 2016 Best Warrior Competition runner-up in the Soldier 

category, fires a M-249 squad automatic weapon at Fort 

Harrison. (Photo by Calvin Reimold)

As part of the Beyond the Horizon and New Horizons exercises, 

troops specializing in engineering, construction and health 

care provide services to select communities while conducting 

valuable deployment training.

KALISPELL

GREAT FALLS

MISSOULA

HELENA [2]

BUTTE

BILLINGS [2]
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From the 7252nd to its predecessor, the 4225th USAH 

and the 396th Station Hospital (active from 1954 to 1995), 

Montana’s Army Reserve medical Soldiers have a proud 

history of caring for troops on the frontlines, as far back 

as Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. 

In the spring of 2017, the “Renegades” of Missoula’s 

672nd Engineer Company participated in a humanitarian 

civic exercise in Belize, constructing a new medical clinic 

in support Southern Command’s Beyond the Horizons 

program. As part of the Beyond the Horizon and New 

Horizons exercise, troops specializing in engineering, 

construction and health care provide services to select 

communities while conducting valuable deployment 

training and building important relationships with 

partner nations. 

MONTANA

Combat medics and other military medical professionals of Helena’s 7252nd U.S. Army Hospital are 

adding a new dental care unit and tripling available combat medic positions. 

MEDICAL

TRANSPORTATION

QUARTERMASTER

ENGINEER

ORDNANCE (AMMO)

MT CAPABILITIES
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68

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $3.6 Million 12 38 1,487 57

 $44,331,241 

 442 

 $13,702,940 

$40,890,387 

$25,695,314 

$5,693,281 

NORTH PLATTE

MCCOOK

KEARNEY HASTINGS

NORFOLK

COLUMBUS

FREMONT

OFFUTT 

AIR FORCE BASE

MEAD

LINCOLN

BEATRICE

Soldiers of Elkhorn’s 7246th Medical Support Unit 

compete in the annual Squad Medic Challenge, hosted 

and sponsored by the Nebraska National Guard.

OMAHA

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: An Omaha native and drill sergeant with Foxtrot Company, 3rd 

Battalion of the 485th Regiment, clears the inverted wall obstacle during 

the 108th Training Command Best Warrior Competition at Camp Bullis, 

Texas. (Photo by Maj. Michelle Lunato.)

Right: Members of the 7246th Medical Support Unit in Elkhorn participate 

in an exercise at the Mead Training Site. The 7246th was a participant of 

the 2016 Squad Medic Challenge, hosted by the Nebraska Army National 

Guard. (Nebraska National Guard photo by Sgt. Jason Drager)
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At Key Resolve, the engineers partnered with 

Army Corps of Engineers researchers to develop 

processes for contingency site selection and 

management to improve the local population’s 

acceptance of military presence, reduce logistical 

burdens through site selection and decrease 

negative impacts on natural resources 

and environment.

High-angle rescue, delivering 

babies and surgery on pigs 

lungs are all in a week’s work 

for Soldiers assigned to 

Elkhorn’s 7246th Medical 

Support Unit. In 2016, they 

were among the medics who 

teamed up from across the 

state to participate in Squad 

Medic Challenge, an exercise 

hosted by the Nebraska Army 

National Guard. Nine scenariobased lanes highlighted 

team-oriented medical skills 

including spine board 

extraction, giving care in a 

moving ambulance and litter carry. The 7246th 

Soldiers also contribute at Bureau of Indian Health 

Service clinics, bringing care to Native Americans 

living on reservations and benefitting from a 

real-world, unscripted training environment.

NEBRASKA

Elkhorn’s 916th Forward Engineer Support Team-Advanced combat engineers traveled to 

South Korea to participate in the 8th Army’s 2017 Key Resolve exercise. Focusing on “fight 

tonight” readiness, it is one of the Army’s largest annual exercises. 

MEDICAL

LOGISTICS

TRANSPORTATION

MILITARY POLICE

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

QUARTERMASTER

NE CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $3.9 Million

3 30 1,793 47

 $50,418,799 

 491 

 $15,564,254 

$45,102,827 

$30,859,476 

$4,694,460 

The 645th Inland 

Cargo Transfer 

Company and the 

257th Transportation 

Company relocate heavy 

maneuver forces on the battlefield 

and provide heavy equipment 

transportation for operational and 

tactical relocation.

SLOAN

LAS VEGAS [2]

OPPOSITE PAGE (left to right)

Soldiers from the 355th Chemical, 

Biological, Radiological and 

Nuclear Company from Sloan, 

power-spray the engine of a 

CH-47 Chinook helicopter during 

detail decontamination training 

near Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. (Photo 

by Sgt. 1st Class Joel Quebec)

A 650th Regional Support Group 

culinary specialist, trains on 

the Virtual Clearance Training 

Suite system simulator, at the 

Taylor Hall U.S. Army Reserve 

Center in Las Vegas. With this 

virtual training, Soldiers were 

guided step-by-step through the 

different levels of detection and 

identification so that they could 

neutralize explosive hazards. 

(Photo by Capt. Fernando Ochoa)

Combat engineers from the 

386th Engineer Company (Route 

Clearance), from Las Vegas, 

prepare charges for a demolition 

range event during the Sapper 

Stakes 2015. (Photo by Master 

Sgt. Michel Sauret)
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The battalion’s mission, providing area sustainment to U.S. and coalition forces and 

overseeing the transfer of equipment to the Iraqi Army, was one of the most diverse 

in Central Command’s area of responsibility.

The 313th Military Police Detachment, also based in Sloan, specializes in criminal, 

traffic and accident investigations. Many of the MPs work as law enforcement officers 

in their civilian careers. This dual-hatting allows these Warrior Citizens to bring 

up-to-date developments, methods and technologies to their military profession.

The 645th Inland Cargo Transfer Company and the 257th Transportation Company 

(CBT HET) are two of Nevada’s larger units. The missions of the 645th and 257th are 

to relocate heavy maneuver forces on the battlefield and provide heavy equipment 

transportation for operational and tactical relocation. These key transportation assets 

are used in nearly all stateside exercises in Nevada and neighboring states.

Just southwest of Las Vegas, Sloan is the headquarters of the 650th Regional Support Group, a brigadelevel command with three combat sustainment support battalions, including the 314th CSSB. In January 

2017, 314th Soldiers took the fight to Islamic State forces in Iraq as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.

NEVADA MEDICAL

CHEMICAL

TRANSPORTATION

MILITARY POLICE

SIGNAL

ENGINEER

MISO

NV CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

72

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

4 17 939 37

 $42,138,533 

 363 

 $12,446,504 

$35,052,352 

$20,325,100 

$3,695,639 

 - $3.1 Million

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Top left and far right: Soldiers from the Somersworthbased 456th Area Support Medical Company, along 

other military personnel, execute mass casualty 

evacuation operations during a Combat Support 

Training Exercise. (Photo by Amy Philips) 

Bottom left: Soldiers from the Londonderry’s 368th 

Engineer Battalion stand in formation during a 

deployment ceremony at Saint Anselm College in 

Manchester. (Photo by Spc. Stephen Doherty)

Londonderry’s 368th Engineer 

Battalion led a massive, 

14-week drainage culvert 

construction project at 

Bagram’s Coyote Creek and 

built a MEDVAC hangar facility 

at Bagram to house an Army 

“dust off” aviation company.

KEENE

SOMERSWORTH

PORTSMOUTH

LONDONDERRY

CONCORD
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TRAINING SUPPORT

The Kuwait-based 

team was composed of 

medics, nurses, doctors 

and medical support 

personnel. Spartan 

Medic provided up to 

72 hours of emergency 

treatment and 

stabilization medical 

support, including 

triage, treatment and 

disposition of patients.

Londonderry’s 368th 

Engineer Battalion

also deployed in 

2016, to Afghanistan’s 

Bagram Airfield in 

support of Central 

Command’s Operation 

Spartan Shield, which 

promotes security 

and self-reliance 

among America’s Middle Eastern partners. The 368th Soldiers 

led a massive, 14-week drainage culvert construction project at 

Bagram’s Coyote Creek and built a MEDVAC hangar facility at 

Bagram to house an Army “dust off” aviation company.

“Spartan Medic” Soldiers from Somersworth’s 456th Area Support Medical Support Medical Company 

deployed in 2016 to support Operation Inherent Resolve. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE NH CAPABILITIES
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74

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $21.2 Million 13 86 4,467 311

 $376,139,351 

 3,053 

 $108,427,163 

$242,981,257 

$108,844,759 

$31,063,343 

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: A Soldier with the 78th Training 

Division, leads his squad through an Army 

Warrior Task lane during the Best Warrior 

Competition at Fort McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. 

The Army Warrior Task lane provides 

training to Soldiers in securing buildings, 

and assessing and treating simulated 

casualties. (Photo by Sgt. Philip Scaringi) 

Right: A lead mechanic with the 352nd 

Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 

Pemberton, crawls under barbed wire as 

part of a Best Warrior Competition. (Photo by 

Sgt. 1st Class Gary Witte)

The Checkerboarders of the 99th 

Regional Readiness Support 

Command, headquartered at Joint 

Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is 

the legacy of World War II’s “Battle 

Babies.” Less than one month into 

its deployment to the European 

Theater of operations, the division, 

which had never seen combat, was 

the first unit struck when the 

Wermacht launched its surprise 

attack beginning the Battle of 

the Bulge.

PICATINNY ARSENAL [2]

LODI

JERSEY CITY

EDISON

RED BANK

TRENTON

JOINT BASE

McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST [4]

BLACKWOOD

NORTHFIELD

Atlantic Training 

Division, 

75th Training 

Command, Joint Base 

McGuire-DixLakehurst

78th Training Division 

[Operations], Joint 

Base McGuire-DixLakehurst

99th Regional Support 

Command, Fort Dix
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When they had 

been in Belgium 

only about a 

month—and never 

in combat—the 

Wehrmacht’s 

combined force of 

armor and infantry 

smashed into 

Checkerboarders’ 

positions on 

Dec. 16, 1944—

the action that 

commenced the 

Battle of the Bulge. 

Today, the 99th RSC provides personnel and readiness 

support for Soldiers, members of the civilian workforce 

and Army Reserve Families in 13 northeastern seaboard 

states from Virginia to Maine. The command includes 50 

percent of deployable public affairs units and 25 percent 

of the Army Reserve’s bands.

Jersey City’s 360th Psychological Operations Company

provides a vital part of the broad range of political, 

military, economic, and ideological activities engaged 

in by the U.S. government. In May 2017, the 360th 

PsyOp Soldiers traveled to Jordan and met with the 

country’s Directorate of Moral Guidance, part of the unit’s 

participation in Central Command’s Eager Lion exercise.

The Checkerboarders of the 99th Regional Readiness Support 

Command, headquartered at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is 

the legacy of World War II’s “Battle Babies.” 

NEW JERSEY MEDICAL

ENGINEER

AVIATION

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MISO

QUARTERMASTER

TRANSPORTATION

SIGNAL

LOGISTICS

TRAINING SUPPORT
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

4 18 904 27

 $32,610,457 

 374 

 $10,280,244 

$28,326,045 

$15,070,635 

$2,696,818 

 - $2.5 Million

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Left: A specialist designated noncommissioned officer in charge 

of Santa Fe’s 491st Area Support 

Medical Company clinic receives 

situation report from her team about 

the simulated casualties as part of 

the annual Maple Resolve exercise. 

(Photo by Staff Sgt. Brad Miller)

Right: A Soldier with the 877th 

Quartermaster Company at 

Kirtland Air Force Base works on 

the Chemical and Quartermaster 

Equipment Repair Course class 

project. (Photo by Scott Sturkol)

Las Cruces’s 356th 

Transportation 

Company and similar 

units throughout 

the Army Reserve 

are critical to the 

Army’s support and 

sustainment structure, 

moving supplies, 

troops and equipment 

anywhere in the world.

SANTA FE

KIRTLAND 

AIR FORCE BASE

SILVER CITY

LAS CRUCES

ALBUQUERQUE 
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NEW MEXICO

Soldiers of the 491st Area Support Medical Company from Santa Fe were among the more than 

600 Soldiers building readiness while supporting Maple Resolve 2017, the Canadian Army’s 

premiere brigade-level validation exercise. 

As part of the exercise, the Army 

Reserve provided a wide array of 

combat and support elements, 

including sustainment, psychological 

operations, public affairs, aviation 

and medical elements.

Las Cruces’s 356th 

Transportation 

Company and similar 

units throughout 

the Army Reserve 

are critical to the 

Army’s support and 

sustainment structure, 

moving supplies, 

troops and equipment 

anywhere in the world. 

Solders in the 877th 

Quartermaster 

Company, based at Kirkland Air Force, 

provide vital repair services to chemical 

and quartermaster equipment, such 

as forced-air heaters and other special 

purpose machinery.

MEDICAL

QUARTERMASTER

TRANSPORTATION

TRAINING SUPPORT

NM CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

78

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $25.8 Million 29 181 8,342 326

 $361,352,434 

 2,752 

 $101,065,354 

$296,688,672 

$177,797,977 

$32,561,575 

Army Reserve Soldiers assigned to New York 

units were among the emergency personnel 

to respond to the 2012 Hurricane Sandy, a 

first-time leveraging of Defense Support of 

Civil Authorities under the provisions of the 

2012 National Defense Authorization Act.

CANTON

PLATTSBURGH

FORT DRUM [2]

OSWEGO

NIAGRA

TONAWANDA

BUFFALO

ROCHESTER [2]

WEBSTER LIVERPOOL

NEW YORK MILLS

PENN YAN

SYRACUSE

ITHACA

SCHENECTADY [2]

GERRY HORSEHEADS NICHOLS SAUGERTIES

BULLVILLE

NEW WINDSOR

ORANGEBURG

SHOREHAM

FORT 

HAMILTON

353rd Civil Affairs Command, 

Staten Island

NEW YORK [2]
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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

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ENGINEER

QUARTERMASTER

LEGAL

CIVIL AFFAIRS

CHEMICAL

ORDNANCE

MILITARY POLICE

TRAINING SUPPORT

NY CAPABILITIES

Units arrived with industrial-sized water pumps and 

water purification specialists to simultaneously remove 

water from flood-ravaged areas and provide clean, fresh 

water to local residents. 

Soldiers of Staten Island’s Northeast Medical Area 

Support Group recently partnered military medical 

professionals with the Hackensack Meridian Health and 

Hackensack University Medical Center. The Strategic 

Medical Asset Readiness Training, or S.M.A.R.T., assigns 

military medical personnel with civilian doctors and staff 

to broaden service members’ knowledge of current 

medical techniques and procedures, creating an immersion

experience for their two weeks of annual training.

Pine Bush’s 417th Engineer Company deployed in 2017 to 

Kuwait in support of Central Command operations. The 

company’s engineers operate heavy earth moving 

equipment for horizontal projects, such as roads, runways 

and foundations.

NEW YORK

Left: Combat Engineers assigned 

to 366th Engineer Company, 

based in Canton, speak through 

their headsets before a gunnery 

crew live-fire qualification in a 

M113 Armored Personnel Carrier 

at Operation Cold Steel. (Photo by 

Master Sgt. Anthony Taylor) 

Right: A mechanic assigned to the 

366th Engineer Company, Canton, 

inspects an M2 .50-caliber 

machine gun in preparation 

for a firing exercise as part of 

Operation Cold Steel. (Photo by 

Spc. Jeremiah Woods) 

After Superstorm Sandy, Army Reserve Soldiers were among the emergency personnel to respond, 

a first-time leveraging of Defense Support of Civil Authorities under the provisions of the 

2012 National Defense Authorization Act. 
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80

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

28 124 6,371 604

 $642,148,852 

 6,442 

 $197,558,150 

$450,772,769 

$250,261,732 

$60,328,807 

 - $39.2 Million

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Left: Military policemen representing the 805th MP Company 

from Cary, complete L-shaped hall clearing during Exercise 

African Lion 17 at Tifnit, Morocco. (Photo Spc. Tynisha Daniel) 

Right: An 805th Military Police Company, Cary, scans the 

woodline for the enemy during a Combat Support Training 

Exercise. (Photo by Spc John Russell)

Fort Bragg also hosts the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological 

Operations Command (Airborne), which provides the vast majority 

of the Army’s conventional civil affairs assets and Military 

Information Support Operations forces.

MOREHEAD CITY

KNIGHTDALE

RALEIGH [2]

FAYETTEVILLE

McLEANSVILLE

CARY

FORT BRAGG [7]

WINSTON SALEM [2] GREENSBORO [2]

HIGH POINT

SALISBURY

CONCORD

CHARLOTTE

HICKORY

MORGANTON

ASHEVILLE

BREVARD

WILMINGTON

LUMBERTON

KINSTON

WILSON

WINTERVILLE

ROCKY MOUNT

U.S. Army Reserve 

Command, Fort Bragg

U.S. Army Civil Affairs 

PSYOP Command, 

Fort Bragg

108th Training Command 

(IET), Charlotte
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LOGISTICS

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ENGINEER

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MILITARY INFORMATION 

SUPPORT OPERATIONS

NC CAPABILITIES

The Army Reserve is both a component and command, 

organized under a single authority—the Chief of Army 

Reserve. Under this authority, the Army Reserve is 

integrated into, and directly supports, every Army Service 

Component Command and Combatant Command across 

the globe, with a footprint that extends across all 

50 states and the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, 

and more than 30 foreign countries.

Fort Bragg also hosts the U.S. Army 

Civil Affairs and Psychological 

Operations Command (Airborne), 

which provides the vast majority of 

the Army’s conventional civil affairs 

assets and Military Information 

Support Operations forces. Also in 

Fort Bragg is the 385th Movement 

Control Team, which recently 

returned from a nine month 

deployment to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. 

The team is a highly-specialized 

collection of logistics professionals, 

who track and control the movement of hundreds of 

vehicles and convoys in support of military operations.

NORTH CAROLINA

Fort Bragg is home to the U.S. Army Reserve 

Command Headquarters, the only three-star 

general officer command in the Army Reserve, 

and the second largest command in the Army.
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

82

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

3 9 440 12

 $9,332,091 

 85 

 $2,758,554 

$8,623,140 

$4,306,281 

$1,198,586 

 - $0.8 Million

Bismarck’s 945th Engineering Utilities Detachment functions as a 

multi-faceted, multi-craft platoon, and takes on tasks including 

carpentry, masonry and electrical work.

GRAND FORKS

FARGO BISMARCK
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ENGINEER

ND CAPABILITIES

Specialists—including plumbers, 

electricians and carpenters—put 

their skills to the test while serving 

overseas in support of Operation 

Spartan Shield. The mission was 

to provide base maintenance and 

support in Kuwait and across the 

region, including Jordan, Iraq 

and Afghanistan, where Soldiers 

contributed to a 14-week culvertdrainage project at Bagram Airfield’s 

Coyote Creek. 

Many Army Reserve Soldiers have 

expertise in civilian construction, 

engineering or personal businesses 

that is valuable for missions and 

deployments. Bismarck’s 945th 

Engineering Utilities Detachment 

functions as a multi-faceted, 

multi-craft platoon, taking on tasks 

including carpentry, masonry and 

electrical work. This new concept 

places highly-skilled personnel 

in smaller units that better 

reflect how the Army has refined 

modularized deployments.

The more than 150 Soldiers of the 461st Engineer Company (Vertical Construction), based in 

Grand Forks, returned from a one-year deployment to Kuwait in 2017. 

NORTH DAKOTA

Left: Soldiers of the 461st 

Engineer Company, Fargo, 

acting as a quick reaction 

force, get into position to 

flank against enemy forces 

during a Combat Support 

Training Exercise. (Photo by 

Spc. Heather Doppke)

Above: Deployed Army 

engineer units, including the 

461st Engineer Company, 

teamed up to completed 

a 14-week long culvert 

project at Bagram Air Field, 

Afghanistan during the month 

of November 2016. The Coyote 

Creek serves as the primary 

drainage point for an intricate 

system of water diversion 

trenches, retention ponds, 

and culvert systems in the 

south perimeter around and 

underneath the base. 

(U.S. Army courtesy photo) 
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84

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

20 105 5,759 213

 $275,051,667 

 2,446 

 $82,568,168 

$192,277,069 

$122,248,996 

$21,274,894 

 - $16.7 Million

Soldiers from the 983rd 

Engineer Battalion, 

based out of Monclova, 

contributed to facility 

improvements at Crane 

Army Ammunition 

Activity. An aspect of 

their hands-on training 

was renovating two 

ammunition storage 

facilities by placing 

siding and a secure 

entrance on the existing 

structure. The 983rd 

specifically focuses on 

construction missions 

during deployments. 

LIMA

BRYAN

MONCLOVA

TIFFIN

MILAN

DELAWARE

BLACKLICK

CHILLICOTHE

MANSFIELD

TWINSBURG

NORTH CANTON

TROY

DAYTON [2]

TRENTON

MAINEVILLE

CINCINNATI [2]

COLUMBUS [3]

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A 983rd Engineering Battalion Soldier based 

in Monclova, operates equipment during 

a demolition and removal mission. The 

983rd worked on five construction projects 

designed to improve infrastructure during the 

unit’s annual training hosted by Crane Army 

Ammunition Activity. (Photo by Thomas Peske)
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The projects improved Crane’s 

infrastructure while providing 

valuable training for the unit’s 

Soldiers. Projects completed by 

the 983rd included the renovation 

of two ammunition storage 

facilities, the pouring of a cement 

pad, the conversion of a railway 

to a road, a building demolition 

and the creation of a truck lot. 

Over the course of four weeks, 

approximately 415 Soldiers 

worked on various projects, 

saving the garrison more than 

$2.5 million.

One aspect of the training was 

renovating two ammunition 

storage facilities by placing 

siding and a secure entrance on 

the existing structures. Soldiers 

worked with material-handling 

equipment provided by Crane 

Army, and the 983rd brought 

their own heavy construction 

equipment, such as bulldozers, 

excavators and backhoes. 

Army Reserve Soldiers from the 983rd Engineer Battalion, based in Monclova, performed their 

2016 annual training at Crane Army Ammunition Activity. 

OHIO
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

86

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

16 64 2,473 109

 $103,799,338 

 1,022 

 $32,404,647 

$81,711,605 

$48,261,258 

$10,887,152 

 - $7.1 Million

Oklahoma City’s 401st Engineer Company (Multi-Role Bridge Company) is an 

example of how the Army Reserve provides combat and humanitarian mission 

commanders with specialized personnel capable of crossing rivers, lakes and 

other obstacles with both floating and dry-support bridges.

PONCA CITY BARTLESVILLE MIAMI

FORT SILL [2]

ADA

MCALESTER

ARMY AMMUNITION 

PLANT

ARDMORE

VANCE AIR FORCE BASE

STILLWATER BROKEN ARROW

TULSA

MUSKOGEE

OKMULGEE

OKLAHOMA CITY [2]

95th Training Division [IET], 

Fort Sill

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Left: Soldiers from the 

401st Engineer Company 

(Multi-Role Bridge 

Company) based in 

Mustang, along with the 

341st Engineer Company, 

maneuver a six-bay float 

raft downstream on the 

Mississippi River as part of 

a Warrior Exercise (Photo 

by Sgt. Beth Raney)
The Army Reserve provides more than half of the Army’s drill sergeants, making their contribution 

critical to a future force capable of meeting rapidly-evolving global challenges. 

OKLAHOMA

Fort Sill’s 95th Training Division (Initial Entry Training) 

is one of the two Army Reserve divisions fulfilling that 

critical role. They serve at all four Army Basic Combat 

Training sites, with the primary task of leading recruits 

through “Echo Mission,” a capstone field exercise 

incorporating all elements of recruit training in the 

context of a stressful military operations scenario, 

including simulated IED attacks, ambushes 

and casualties. 

Oklahoma City’s 401st Engineer Company (Multi-Role 

Bridge Company) is an example of how the Army Reserve 

provides combat and humanitarian mission commanders 

with specialized personnel capable of crossing rivers, 

lakes and other obstacles with both floating and 

dry-support bridges. Combat engineers of the 401st 

maintain readiness by training with active-duty bridging 

engineers—recently at the 2016 River Assault exercise 

and the 2017 Army Reserve Warrior Exercise at Fort 

McCoy, Wisconsin.

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88

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

2 16 808 16

 $24,425,028 

 214 

 $7,324,581 

$22,573,021 

$18,238,795 

$1,598,114 

 - $2.0 Million

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Bottom: Soldiers with the 

671st Engineer Company, 

Portland, deploy Bridge 

Erection Boats (BEB) from 

a M1120 Heavy Expanded 

Mobility Tactical Truck 

as part of a bridging 

exercise. (Photo by Sgt. 

Robert Farrell) 

Top right: A Soldier with 

the 364th Civil Affairs 

Brigade, plays with local 

students during the 

medical capability clinic 

being held at the Wat 

Chalheam lap School in 

Chon Buri, Kingdom of 

Thailand. (U.S. Marine 

Corps photo by Cpl. 

Jessica Olivas) 

Soldiers of the Clackamas-based 364th Civil Affairs Brigade conduct 

civilian-military relations missions, in addition to providing theater-wide 

command and control of civil affairs assets. 

CLACKAMAS

EUGENE

SALEM
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OREGON

The 671st Engineer Company in Clackamas was awarded the Presidential 

Unit Citation for extreme heroism and bravery for distinguishing itself in 

Iraq, working night and day to construct a bridge over the Euphrates River, 

often under intense enemy fire. 

Mobile bridging units such as the 671st provide water 

crossing capabilities in areas affected by flooding and 

damaged bridges, enabling delivery of critical relief 

items, a capability well-suited to Defense Support of 

Civil Authorities.

Also based in Clackamas, Soldiers of the 364th Civil 

Affairs Brigade conduct civilian-military relations 

missions, in addition to providing theater-wide 

command and control of civil affairs assets. 

When training, 364th Soldiers practice operating a 

theater-wide command post in a fictional overseas 

location with professional role players interacting 

with Soldiers as local nationals.

ENGINEERS

CIVIL AFFAIRS

TRANSPORTATION

MISO

OR CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

90

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $28.3 Million 49 182 8,961 442

 $468,672,903 

 3,881 

 $138,701,171 

$324,599,140 

$182,536,856 

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Left: Two Pennsylvania Soldiers treat wounds on a mannequin during 

combat lifesaver training conducted at training exercise Castle 

Installation Related Construction. (Photo by Sgt. Anshu Pandeya)

Horsham’s 367th Military Police Company specializes 

in internment and resettlement operations.

FAIRVIEW

CONNEAUT LAKE [2]

MEADVILLE

FRANKLIN

FARRELL

NEW CASTLE [2]

BUTLER [2]

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP

KITTANNING

NEW KENSINGTON

CORAOPOLIS

GREENSBURG

WASHINGTON

SMITHFIELD

BROOKVILLE

INDIANA

SAINT MARYS

DuBOIS

PUNXSUTAWNEY

JOHNSTOWN [5]

CLEARFIELD

BELLEFONTE

WILLIAMSPORT

SCRANTON [2]

LOCH HAVEN

WILKES-BARRE

TOBYHANNA 

ARMY DEPOT

HAZLETON

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN BETHLEHEM

HUNTINGDON

GREENCASTLE

LETTERKENNY

ARMY DEPOT YORK

HARRISBURG

NEW CUMBERLAND

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP

DANVILLE

READING [2]

NORRISTOWN [2]

BRISTOL LANCASTER

NEWTOWN SQUARE

ALTOONA

PHILADELPHIA [2]

PITTSBURGH

316th Sustainment Command 

[Expeditionary], Coraopolis

Right: Soldiers of the 367th Military Police Company, 

Horsham, stand at the ready in riot gear, as they conduct 

detainee operations. (Photo by Spc. Michael McDevitt) 
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PENNSYLVANIA

While deployed, cyber warriors provide the planning, 

engineering, installation, maintenance and defense 

of the Army’s portion of the Global Information Grid in 

Southwest Asia.

Horsham’s 367th Military Police Company specializes 

in internment and resettlement operations. In 2016, the 

367th MP’s trained at the Combat Support Exercise at 

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, where 

they interacted with professional role players who, in one 

readiness event, taunted the MPs in riot gear by pelting 

them with snowballs.

Scranton’s 412th Engineer Company built an 11-cell 

detainee compound at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst 

as part of training exercise Castle Installation Related 

Construction 2016. In order to promote the engineering 

culture, Soldiers from non-engineering fields, such as 

medic and administrative specialists, were coached on 

basic construction skills including cutting boards and 

using laser leveling tools. 

North Central Cyber Protection Center’s Detachment 56, located in Coraopolis, deployed in support 

of Central Command land operations. 

LOGISTICS

AVIATION

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

QUARTERMASTER

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MEDICAL

MISO

TRANSPORTATION

SIGNAL

CYBERSECURITY

TRAINING SUPPORT

PA CAPABILITIES
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92

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

4 11 660 16

 $18,232,725 

 151 

 $5,128,905 

$16,506,349 

$11,386,788 

$1,598,114 

 - $1.4 Million

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Left: Military medical professionals of Cranston’s 912th 

Forward Surgical Team treat a simulated patient. The 

FST used a mock operating room, Gator utility vehicles 

and a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to simulate real-world 

scenarios they will face when deployed. (Photo by Sgt. 

1st Class Garrett Ralston)

Right: Soldiers Sailors including the 912th Forward 

Surgical Team out of Cranston team up at the 

USAR Combat Support Training Exercise. The 

Soldiers and Sailors collaborated with medical 

aviation Soldiers in a real-world scenario exercise 

to booster their skills for deployment operations. 

(Photo by Brian Godette) 

Five electrical 

distribution specialist 

Soldiers from the 

Delta Company of 

the 249th Engineer 

Battalion (Prime 

Power) deployed to 

support U.S. Army 

Central operations in 

Kuwait and in other 

contingency sites.

LINCOLN

CRANSTON

NAVAL BASE 

NEWPORT

NARRAGANSETT

PROVIDENCE
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The active-duty battalion is manned with Army Reserve 

prime power specialists focused on electrical generation. 

Similar to other professions in the Army Reserve, Delta 

Company Soldiers are industry-rated and receive training 

through their civilian employers that is unavailable in 

the Department of Defense. In 2017, five Delta Company 

Soldiers deployed to support U.S. Army Central 

operations in Kuwait and in other contingency sites. 

In addition to supporting military operations, the 

company is a resource of the FEMA’s National Response 

Framework and the Army Corps of Engineers’ Emergency 

Support Functions during natural disasters, all under the 

authority of the Stafford Act. In 2015, eight Delta Company 

Soldiers mobilized to Saipan after Typhoon Soudelor. The 

typhoon, which crippled the Port of Saipan, left hundreds 

of residents without electricity, requiring the 14-day 

assignment to be extended to 77 days. Closer to home, in 

Massachusetts, the company is erecting a 1.5 megawatt 

wind turbine on Otis Air Force Base.

Cranston’s Delta Company, 249th Engineer Battalion are the only power-distribution specialists 

in the Army inventory. 

RHODE ISLAND ENGINEER (POWER LINE)

MEDICAL

CIVIL AFFAIRS

TRAINING SUPPORT

TRANSPORTATION

RI CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

94

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $16.5 Million 15 71 3,693 343

 $256,368,373 

 2,594 

 $77,353,364 

$189,944,442 

$103,877,548 

$34,259,571 

South Carolina is vital to training new 

Soldiers through the U.S. Army Drill 

Sergeant Academy at Fort Jackson. 

Army Reserve drill sergeants “walk the 

trial” throughout the Army’s education 

and training system, officer and 

enlisted, cadets and recruits. GREENVILLE

SPARTANBURG YORK

GREENWOOD

AIKEN

FORT JACKSON [5]

ORANGEBURG

FLORENCE

MYRTLE BEACH

NORTH CHARLESTON

COLUMBIA

81st Regional Support 

Command, Fort Jackson

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Soldiers of the 34th Infantry 

Regiment descend the mini-wall as 

part of their training at the Victory 

Tower complex. The training is part 

of the Army’s Basic Combat Training 

program instructed by reserve 

and active-duty component drill 

sergeants on Fort Jackson. (Photo 

by Sgt. Michael Adetula) 
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Today, the 81st RSC supports base 

operations and provides vital support 

for over 50,000 Soldiers, families and 

civilians. Their footprint covers 256 

facilities and 45 maintenance shops, 

providing capability essential to fighting 

wars and responding to homeland 

emergencies in nine states, Puerto Rico and the 

U.S. Virgin Islands.

South Carolina is also vital to training new Soldiers 

through the U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy at Fort 

Jackson. Army Reserve drill sergeants maintain a 

significant presence in the development of today’s force.

This year marks the centennial of the 81st Regional Support Command—owners of the “Wildcat” 

patch, the first official patch of the U.S. Army, faced with the overwhelming requirements of 

World War I, Fort Jackson was established in order to train the then 81st Infantry Division.

SOUTH CAROLINA MEDICAL

TRANSPORTATION

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CHEMICAL

CIVIL AFFAIRS

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LEGAL

PERSONNEL SERVICES

TRAINING SUPPORT

SC CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

96

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

2 5 386 8

 $12,832,701 

 130 

 $4,019,304 

$12,413,237 

$8,326,466 

$799,057 

 - $1.1 Million

The 452nd Ordnance Company, located in Aberdeen, provides essential support 

to any war-fighting effort with a mission to manage field ammunition supply 

points and move critical ammunition across the battlefield.

ABERDEEN

SIOUX FALLS

Left: A medical laboratory technician, inspects a 

urine sample for contaminants during an Innovative 

Readiness Training Mission at the Lower Brule 

Indian Health Center, a small clinic located on the 

reservation there. (Photo by Spc. Rachel Skowyra)

Right: Soldiers of the 323rd Chemical Company test 

for chemical or biological threats in the area as they 

are warned of symptoms by role players. (Photo by 

Spc. Rachel Skowyra)

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ENGINEER

TRAINING SUPPORT

SD CAPABILITIES

The 323rd Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear 

Radiation Company, based in Sioux Falls and Vermillion, 

stands ready to defend Americans in combat and at 

home against weapons of mass destruction and toxic 

agents from 

other sources. 

Trained to handle 

dangerous 

materials 

and execute 

demolition 

operations, 323rd 

CBRN Soldiers 

also partner with 

local agencies in 

order to provide 

a coordinated 

response in the 

event of a disaster.

Sioux Falls is also home to the 361st Training Support 

Battalion. In 2016, Soldiers from the 361st instructed 

dozens of aircraft firefighting and rescue personnel, using 

actual fuselages blazing from burning fuel in addition to 

other scenarios.

The 452nd Ordnance Company, located in Aberdeen, 

provides essential support to any warfighting effort with 

a mission to manage field ammunition supply points and 

move critical ammunition across the battlefield.

Army Reserve medical professionals from across the country travel to South Dakota to sharpen their 

medical expertise through Innovative Readiness Training missions, including missions with Crow 

Creek Indian Health Services and Lower Brule Indian Reservation.

SOUTH DAKOTA
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

98

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

14 74 4,323 111

 $184,135,910 

 1,546 

 $54,502,709 

$124,580,847 

$81,020,228 

$11,086,917 

 - $10.8 Million

MILLINGTON

NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY,

MILLINGTON

FORT CAMPBELL

SMYRNA

CHATTANOOGA [2]

OAK RIDGE

KNOXVILLE

KINGSPORT

JOHNSON CITY

NASHVILLE [2] GREENEVILLE

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Left photo: A military police Soldier receives a five-second pulse shot by an X26 Taser 

during a training event conducted by the 290th MP Brigade and the 304th MP Battalion, 

both headquartered in Nashville. (Photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)

Lower right: A Soldier with the 327th Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear Company 

in Chattanooga dismounts from the driver’s hatch of an M1126 Stryker combat vehicle as 

part of a Warrior Exercise. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Brad Ruffin)

Thirteen riggers from Chattanooga’s 861st Quartermaster 

Company tested their skills during a series of cargo parachute 

tests at Fort Bragg, North Carolina during the summer of 2016. 

Working for airborne leaders and Department of Defense 

evaluators, the team slung both supplies and Humvees using the 

developmental G-16 cargo parachute.
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ENGINEER

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CIVIL AFFAIRS

TRANSPORTATION

QUARTERMASTER

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL, ORDNANCE (MAIN)

TRAINING SUPPORT

TN CAPABILITIES

The exercise provided an opportunity for the partnered 

militaries to strengthen their surgery and trauma skills while 

reinforcing the partnership between the countries.

Thirteen riggers from Chattanooga’s 861st Quartermaster 

Company tested their skills during a series of cargo parachute 

tests at Fort Bragg, North Carolina during the summer 

of 2016. Working for airborne leaders and Department 

of Defense evaluators, the team slung both supplies and 

Humvees using the developmental G-16 cargo parachute.

Chattanooga’s 327th Chemical, Biological, Radiological and 

Nuclear Company joined the May 2017 Warrior Exercise held 

at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. While there, they participated 

in simulated combat scenarios and chemical attacks, 

including simulated combat injuries using Hollywood 

techniques and props. Unit members also had the opportunity 

to train on Stryker combat vehicles to enhance their 

deployment readiness. 

Doctors, nurses, combat medics and other medical professionals from Nashville’s 332nd Medical 

Brigade deployed to Africa Command’s MEDRETE exercise in Senegal, an ongoing partnership 

between Africa Command and Senegalese military medical personnel. 

TENNESSEE
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

100

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

54 316 17,647 733

 $1,083,640,785 

 9,072 

 $328,453,677 

$668,786,148 

$419,025,170 

$73,213,602 

 - $58.2 Million

A pilot project at 

Grand Prairie’s Army 

Reserve Center 

collects an estimated 

140,000 gallons of 

rainwater for use 

at the vehicle 

wash station.

AMARILLO

LUBBOCK

FORT BLISS [5]

EL PASO

ABILENE

PARIS

RED RIVER DENTON [2] ARMY DEPOT LEWISVILLE

SEAGOVILLE

GRAND PRAIRIE TYLER

WACO

FORT HOOD [5]

LUFKIN

AUSTIN

HUNTSVILLE

ROUND ROCKBRYAN

CONROE

KELLY

LAREDO

SINTON

ROBSTOWN

HARLINGEN MCALLEN

RIO GRANDE CITY

BROWNSVILLE

CORPUS CHRISTI [2]

KINGSVILLE NAVAL AIR STATION

BEAUMONT

YOAKUM

VICTORIA

SAN MARCOS

JOINT BASE

SAN ANTONIO [5]

FORT WORTH [2]

HOUSTON [3]

75th Training 

Commmand, Houston

Medical Readiness Training 

Command, Joint Base 

San Antonio

4th Sustainment Command, 

(Expeditionary), Joint Base 

San Antonio

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Competitors in the Houston based Southern Division, 75th Training 

Command’s Best Warrior Competition, board a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. 

After completing a 9-mile ruck march, competitors were flown, to the urban 

operations training site on Camp Swift. (Photo by Lt. Col. Steven Johnston)

A Soldier with the 75th Training Command Headquarters Detachment trains 

at a military rifle range in Bastrop. (Photo by Lt. Col. Adam Collett) 

A Soldier with the 95th Training Division (Initial Entry Training) navigates an 

obstacle during the 108th Training Command Best Warrior Competition at 

Camp Bullis. (Photo by Maj. Michelle Lunato)
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Dispersed over 22 states, with over 2,200 Soldiers 

and Civilians, the 75th has five divisions that provide 

a wide range of training to both active and reserve 

components of the Army and other military branches. 

Conroe is home to the 1st Battalion, 158th Aviation 

Regiment, whose mission is to conduct attack, 

reconnaissance and security operations in support 

of other maneuver forces. The unit is transforming 

from an attack reconnaissance battalion to an assault 

helicopter battalion, trading in its Apache helicopters for 

Blackhawks for transporting troops forward.

1n 2016, Conroe’s 451st Engineer Platoon polished 

their mine hunting and clearing skills at Fort Hood. 

They cleared anti-personnel and anti-tank mines during 

the exercises, spending much of their time on their 

stomachs, removing the mines by hand, or as a last 

resort, clearing a path by driving their blast-proofed 

M1271 trucks through minefields to deliberately 

set them off. 

TEXAS

Houston’s 75th Training Command is the Army’s Staff Training Command, conducting Mission 

Command staff assessments and exercise design and execution. 

MEDICAL

AVIATION

LOGISTICS

QUARTERMASTER

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

TRANSPORTATION

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MISO

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

CYBERSECURITY

TRAINING SUPPORT

TX CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

102

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

9 56 3,742 162

 $203,465,034 

 2,095 

 $63,184,821 

$133,498,394 

$67,504,331 

$16,180,905 

 - $11.6 Million

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A petroleum supply specialist assigned 

to Provo’s 786th Quartermaster Company 

views the firing range through a thermal 

weapon sight ahead of a night live-fire 

gunnery qualification during the Cold Steel 

exercise conducted at Fort McCoy, Wis. 

(Photo by Master Sgt. Anthony Taylor)

The “Mission First, Never 

Quit” 807th MCDS is 

responsible for all of the 

Army Reserve’s deployable 

field medical units from 

Ohio to California, providing 

general medical, surgical, 

dental, ambulance, 

behavioral health, 

preventive medicine and 

veterinary support to units 

and civilian populations.

SALT LAKE CITY [3]

LOGAN

OGDEN [2]

PLEASANT GROVE

SAINT GEORGE

PROVO

807th Medical Command 

[Deployment Support], 

Salt Lake City 

76th Operational Response 

Command, Salt Lake City 
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It is one of three two-star medical command groups 

in the Army and is structured to deploy as a theaterwide military medical command and control team. The 

“Mission First, Never Quit” 807th MCDS is responsible 

for all of the Army Reserve’s deployable field medical 

units from Ohio to California, providing general medical, 

surgical, dental, ambulance, behavioral health, 

preventive medicine and veterinary support to units and 

civilian populations.

Salt Lake City’s 96th Sustainment Brigade recently joined 

“Sustained Fury” held in Ogden. During the Sustain 

Fury exercise, Soldiers both supported the exercise 

with logistics and participated in stressful, combat-like 

training events. The brigade also conducted a 40-hour 

combat lifesaving course, including a mass casualty 

scenario with role playing Soldiers exhibiting mock 

combat injuries.

Fort Douglas-based 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support) is the 

largest medical command in the Army Reserve, consisting of 99 units and UTAH 10,000 Soldiers across 26 states. 

LOGISTICS

QUARTERMASTER

CIVIL AFFAIRS

TRANSPORTATION

MEDICAL

SIGNAL

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

TRAINING SUPPORT

UT CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

104

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

36 2807

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Soldiers of the 

Jericho-based 424th 

Engineer Company, a 

vertical construction 

unit, work on a roof 

replacement program 

at a building at Camp 

Ethan Allen. (Photo by 

Sgt. Shauna Harris) 

 - $0.5 Million

 $6,660,430 

 72 

 $2,068,263 

$6,036,895 

$3,205,616 

$699,175 

Combat engineers 

of Rutland’s 424th 

Vertical Construction 

Company bring 

civilian-sector 

electrical, carpentry, 

masonry and 

plumbing expertise 

to the fight. 

COLCHESTER

WHITE RIVER 

JUNCTION RUTLAND
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Many of the 424th Soldiers improve these skills in their 

civilian careers, providing invaluable depth to the force.

Soldiers in Colchester’s Detachment 3, 2200th Military 

Intelligence Support Group are part of the adaptive and 

innovative intelligence force responsible for collecting 

intelligence during Army missions. They provide the joint 

force and intelligence community with mission-tailored 

teams and units, currently providing both operational and 

strategic intelligence by researching 

and analyzing information on foreign 

military equipment, foreign military 

forces and regional developments 

for the Army’s National Ground 

Intelligence Center.

Combat engineers of Rutland’s 424th Vertical Construction Company bring civilian-sector electrical, 

carpentry, masonry and plumbing expertise to the fight. 

VERMONT

ENGINEER

LEGAL

TRAINING SUPPORT

VT CAPABILITY
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

106

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $38.8 Million 29 149 7,985 415

 $540,497,622 

 4,497 

 $156,202,994 

$446,202,688 

$328,078,309 

$41,451,084 OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: A Soldier of the 3rd Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), 

based at Fort Belvoir, readies his M203 grenade launcher while 

competing for the title Best Warrior. (Photo by Spc. Marlena Reed)

Right: 80th Training Command Soldiers grade Junior Reserve Officer 

Training Corps high school students from across Virginia at the 

17th Annual Raider Challenge hosted by Manchester High School in 

Midlothian, Va. (Photo by Master Sgt. Stacey Everett) 

Fort Belvoir’s Military Intelligence 

Readiness Command plays an 

essential role in U.S. domestic and 

global security operations, providing 

intelligence for expeditionary missions 

and international engagement 

activities, such as peace building 

and security cooperation. 

RICHMOND [3]

ABINGDON

MARION

GALAX

DUBLIN

FORT A. P. HILL [2]

FORT BELVOIR [3]

CULPEPER

FORT LEE

FORT PICKETT USARC

FORT PICKETT

FORT 

EUSTIS [3]

FORT STORY

SUFFOLK [2]

SALEM

COVINGTON

CHARLOTTESVILLE

LYNCHBURG

BEDFORD

ALEXANDRIA

U.S. Strategic Command, 

Fort Belvoir 

Military Intelligence 

Readiness Command, 

Fort Belvoir

94th Training Division (Force 

Sustainment), Fort Lee

U.S. Army Corp of 

Engineers (Transatlantic 

Division), Winchester

80th Training 

Command 

(The Army 

School System), 

Richmond

FORT 

EUSTIS [3]
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This staff also coordinates with Pentagon partners, 

members of Congress and other federal agencies. Also at Fort Belvoir is the Military Intelligence 

Readiness Command, which plays an essential 

role in U.S. domestic and global security 

operations. MIRC provides continued intelligence 

for expeditionary missions and international 

engagement activities, such as peace building 

and security cooperation. They are relied upon by 

virtually every national intelligence agency and 

combatant command for actionable information on 

named and unnamed missions.

Richmond’s 80th Training Command has 6,000 

Soldiers assigned to 14 brigades nationwide 

and in Puerto Rico, in addition to having working 

relationships with a unit in Hawaii and another 

in Germany. The command instructs Soldiers in 

12 military career fields for combat support and 

combat service support, including engineering, 

health services, supply, and 

information operations. 

Fort Belvoir is home to more than 150 military 

uniformed and civilian professionals who 

support the Office of the Chief of the Army 

Reserve with national policy and programs. 

VIRGINIA

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

MEDICAL

ENGINEER (POWER LINE)

AVIATION

INF. OPERATIONS

LEGAL

QUARTERMASTER

CIVIL AFFAIRS

TRANSPORTATION (WATERCRAFT)

MISO

CHEMICAL

SIGNAL

MILITARY POLICE

TRAINING SUPPORT

VA CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

108

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

15 136 8,973 248

 $310,518,521 

 2,746 

 $94,824,735 

$232,277,979 

$132,009,752 

$24,770,768 

 - $20.2 Million

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Soldiers from the 301st Maneuver 

Enhancement Brigade, maneuver through 

difficult terrain on Joint Base LewisMcChord. (Photo by Spc. Sean Harding)

SEATTLE [2]

MARYSVILLE

BOTHELL

RENTON

TACOMA [2]

JOINT BASE 

LEWIS-McCHORD [6]

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE

TUMWATER

VANCOUVER

YAKIMA TRAINING CENTER

The 659th Engineer Company responded rapidly to a request from the 

Fairchild Air Force Base Fire Department for assistance in fighting a 

nearby wildfire, which threatened a residential area in Airway Heights.

364th Sustainment 

Command 

(Expeditionary), 

Marysville

104th Training Division 

(Leader Training), Joint 

Base Lewis-McChord
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WA CAPABILITIES

MEDICAL

AVIATION

ENGINEER (FIREFIGHTER)

TRANSPORTATION (WATERCRAFT)

CIVIL AFFAIRS

CHEMICAL

MISO

MILITARY POLICE

LOGISTICS

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

QUARTERMASTER

TRAINING SUPPORT

Exercise Vibrant Response, a large-scale domestic 

terrorism scenario, ensures Citizen Soldiers remain 

trained and ready to provide their unique skills to local, 

state and federal agencies during emergencies. 

In 2017, the unit also completed chemical, biological, 

radiological and nuclear response training to prepare 

Soldiers for Command and Control Chemical, Biological, 

Radiological, and Nuclear response (C2CRE) missions. 

C2CRE units can be expected to rapidly deploy in response 

to domestic CBRN incidents, so familiarity with equipment 

and processes is vital.

In 2015, Soldiers from the Army Reserve’s 659th 

Engineer Company responded rapidly to a request 

from the Fairchild Air Force Base Fire Department for 

assistance in fighting a nearby wildfire, which threatened 

a residential area in Airway Heights.

The 301st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade recently conducted an emergency-deployment readiness 

exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord that simulated a nuclear attack on U.S. soil. 

WASHINGTON
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

110

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

22 50 2,450 79

 $71,334,031 

 735 

 $21,287,932 

$62,704,566 

$28,089,376 

$7,890,688 

 - $5.5 Million

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Left: Members of the 811th Ordnance Company perform rescue in 

partnership with local and state emergency first responders in the town 

of Rainelle, W.Va., following severe weather and flooding throughout 

the state on June 24, 2016. (Photo courtesy 310th Expeditionary 

Sustainment Command)

Right: A military police Soldier with Grafton’s 363rd Military Police 

Company stands ready with Staff Sgt. Lex, a military working dog, 

during a building-clearance exercise on Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo. 

(Photo by Sgt. Erick Yates)

Bridgeport’s 459th Engineer Company 

was the subject of the award-wining 

documentary “Bridgeport to Baghdad: 

West Virginia’s 459th at Home and War.”

CHARLESTON [2]

WEIRTON

WHEELING [2]

NEW MARTINSVILLE

MORGANTOWN

FAIRMONT

KINGWOOD

BRIDGEPORT

GRAFTON ROMNEY

MARTINSBURG

PARKERSBURG

BIGBEND

MILLWOOD

HUNTINGTON

RAINELLE

BEAVER

LEWISBURG

BLUEFIELD

CLARKBURG
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At the mayor’s request, and acting under 

Immediate Response Authority, Soldiers of 

the 811th Ordnance Company partnered with 

state and local first responders to organize 

and lead boat operations that rescued 80 

flood-stranded West Virginians. Among those 

rescued was a family with a newborn baby 

who had been trapped in their attic.

In Morgantown, the 300th 

Chemical, Biological, 

Radiological and Nuclear 

Company maintains readiness 

for disasters both at home and 

around the world. Soldiers 

recently sharpened their 

readiness and gunnery skills 

by training with M2 .50 caliber 

machine guns mounted on 

CBRN-modified M1135 Stryker 

combat vehicles. 

Bridgeport’s 459th Engineer 

Company is recognized as the 

first American unit to build a 

bridge under fire since World War II, when 

its combat engineers spanned Iraq’s Diyala 

River for Marines assaulting Baghdad. 

WEST VIRGINIA

Forty counties were affected and whole communities were turned into lakes when Rainelle was 

overwhelmed by flooding in 2016. 

MILITARY POLICE

ENGINEER

LOGISTICS

MEDICAL

CHEMICAL

QUARTERMASTER

ORDNANCE (AMMO)

TRAINING SUPPORT

WV CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

112

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

 - $24.9 Million 19 87 4,559 495

 $400,123,443 

 4,096 

 $127,250,845 

$286,481,239 

$109,284,441 

$49,441,655 

Fort McCoy won the Secretary 

of the Army’s 2017 Energy and 

Water Management Award. 

Team McCoy also monitors 

endangered species, such as 

the gray wolf and the Karner 

blue butterfly, which is now 

completely extinct in Canada.

HAMMOND

EAU CLAIRE [2]

WAUSAU

JUNCTION CITY

GREEN 

BAY APPLETON

NEENAH MANITOWOC

ONALASKA

FOND DU LAC SHEBOYGAN

BEAVER DAM

DODGEVILLE PEWAUKEE

MILWAUKEE

STURTEVANT

88th Regional Support 

Command, Fort McCoy

86th Training Division 

(Operations), Fort McCoy

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: Soldiers perform ground 

qualification during the Cold 

Steel exercise at Fort McCoy. Cold 

Steel is the Army Reserve’s crewserved weapons qualification and 

validation exercise. (Photo by Spc. 

Maurice Cheeks) 

Right: Soldiers await the landing 

of Fort McCoy’s emergency 

responder’s helicopter 

preparing to transport a 

casualty mannequin as part of 

a medical evacuation exercise 

during Operation Cold Steel at 

Fort McCoy. (Photo by Staff Sgt. 

Debralee Best)

MADISON

FORT McCOY
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LOGISTICS

ENGINEER (FIRE FIGHTER)

MILITARY POLICE

CHEMICAL

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MEDICAL

QUARTERMASTER

TRAINING SUPPORT

WI CAPABILITIES

Each year, Fort 

McCoy provides 

support and facilities 

for the field and 

classroom training 

of more than 150,000 

military personnel 

from all services 

for numerous Army 

Reserve exercises, 

including the Combat Support Training Exercise, Red Dragon, 

Warrior Exercise, and Global Medic.

Operation Cold Steel, held at Fort McCoy, was the largest 

live-fire exercise in Army Reserve history, developed to train 

and certify more than 400 crews over a seven-week period. 

Exercises such as Cold Steel are critical to ensuring units 

and Soldiers are trained to be combat-ready and bring lethal 

firepower on short notice in support of the Army and Joint 

Force partners around the world.

Fort McCoy is also the home of the 88th Regional Readiness 

Command, which provides essential base operations 

support in the areas of personnel, operations, information 

management, logistics and facility management in their 

19-state region in the northwest quadrant of the country.

Fort McCoy is Wisconsin’s sole federally-operated Army installation. Uniformed and civilian members 

of the Fort McCoy team maintain premier training grounds and support infrastructure for large-scale 

exercises and other training with nearly 60,000 acres of terrain and maneuver space.

WISCONSIN
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

114

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

STATEWIDE

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

2 3 104 3

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Left: A Soldier with Casper’s 

651st Quartermaster 

Company inspects a raw 

water Pump during a Combat 

Support Training Exercise at 

Fort McCoy, Wis. (Photo by 

Spc. John Russell) 

Right: Army Soldiers of 

the 651st Quartermaster 

Company, out of Casper, 

empty a water storage 

bladder during a Combat 

Support Training Exercise. 

Water dogs are a vital part of 

the Army Reserve’s ability to 

meet the needs of the activeduty component. (Photo by 

Spc. John Russell)

 $2,701,373 

 27 

 $850,950 

$3,621,312 

$2,798,585 

$299,646 

 - $0.3 Million

651st Quartermaster Company Soldiers train to defend their 

mission as riflemen, practicing squad tactics to protect the 

sources of clean water that combat troops rely on.

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SHERIDAN
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Evansville’s “Water Dogs” are safe-water experts. These water 

treatment specialists operate Reverse Osmosis Water Purification 

Units, or ROWPUs, which filter 3,000 gallons of fresh water an hour, 

2,000 gallons if the source has salt or other heavy impurities. 

WYOMING WY CAPABILITY

QUARTERMASTER

ROWPUs are complex 

systems of pipes and 

filters that Soldiers 

manipulate through 

a five-step process to 

ensure water is safe for 

drinking and hygiene.

Overseas, the 651st 

Quartermaster Company

provides support to 

humanitarian missions 

and, domestically, these 

Soldiers are poised to 

respond in the event of 

a national emergency 

through Defense Support 

of Civil Authorities. 

Providing safe water is an Emergency Support Function under the National 

Response Framework, which provides the structure for coordinating federal 

interagency support for a federal response to an incident. 

In addition to their technical prowess, 651st Soldiers train to defend their 

mission as riflemen, practicing squad tactics to protect the sources of clean 

water that combat troops rely on.
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

116

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

3 3 256 6

DISTRICTWIDE

 $3,785,807 

12 

 $344,266 

$5,541,058 

$3,267,147 

$599,293 

 - $0.5 Million

OPPOSITE PAGE

Left: Army Reserve Soldiers from 

the District of Columbia area joined a 

candlelight vigil honoring the memory 

of Staff Sgt. James D. McNaughton, 

whose name was added to the 

National Law Enforcement Officers 

Memorial. The ceremony came 12 

years after the Army Reserve NCO 

became the first New York City police 

officer killed in Iraq. (Photo by Sgt. 

Audrey Hayes) 

Right: Col. Brad Wenstrup, the 

commander of the 7457th Medical 

Backfill Battalion, stands at attention 

with Soldiers of the Old Guard during 

a promotion ceremony. Wenstrup was 

on the baseball diamond practicing 

for the annual Congressional 

Baseball Game during the June 14, 

2017 shooting, where House Minority 

Whip Steve Scalise was seriously 

wounded. The combat surgeon 

treated Scalise for his injuries on 

the field and later said the action 

reminded him of his deployment to 

Iraq. (House of Representatives photo 

by Hailey Sadler) 

The District of Columbia 

is home of the Army 

Corps of Engineers’ 

Reserve Support to 

Disasters Office. The 

program matches 

volunteer Army 

Reserve Soldiers 

willing to mobilize on 

short notice to respond 

to natural disasters.

WASHINGTON DC [3]

Office Chief of Army 

Reserve, Pentagon

PENTAGON
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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

COUNTER TERRORISM

DC CAPABILITIES

U.S. Army Reserve Command is the principal advisor on 

all Army Reserve matters to the Secretary and Chief of 

Staff of the Army. The Office of the Chief plans, prepares 

and resources the force, and is responsible for the 

justification, defense and execution of the personnel, 

operations and maintenance, and construction budgets.

The District of Columbia is home 

of the Army Corps of Engineers’ 

Reserve Support to Disasters 

Office. The RESDRO program 

matches volunteer Army Reserve 

Soldiers willing to mobilize on 

short notice for at least 

60 days with the Corps’ 

response to Stafford Act 

emergencies, such as 

floods, earthquakes or 

other natural disasters. 

Made up of advisors and specialized groups who develop and execute Army Reserve plans, policies 

and programs, the Office of the Chief of Army Reserve is located at the Pentagon, with offices 

throughout the national capital region. 

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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

TERRITORY-WIDE

 - $14.8 Million 13 65 5,240 210

 $157,549,224 

 1,653 

 $50,405,359 

$170,052,159 

$94,625,911 

$20,975,247 OPPOSITE PAGE

Soldiers assigned to the 941st Quartermaster Company, 

fire the M240B at a crew-served weapons range on Camp 

Santiago, Puerto Rico. (Photo by Spc. Anthony Martinez)

Fort Buchanan leads the Army Reserve in sustainability 

efforts. The installation generates 25 percent of its power 

from renewable sources such as solar panels and wind 

turbines, and multiple rainwater harvesting systems save an 

estimated one million gallons of water for the post each year.

AGUADILLA [2] SAN JUAN

MAYAGUEZ

YAUCO

FORT 

BUCHANAN

PONCE

PUERTO 

NUEVO [2]

CAGUAS

FORT ALLEN

CEIBA [2]

SALINAS

1st Mission Support Command, 

Fort Buchanan
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Many of the 1st Mission Command Soldiers speak a 

second language, bringing significant depth to the Army 

and the Joint Force.

During a recent Defense in Support of Civil Authorities 

exercise, Soldiers of the 432nd Transportation Company

hauled 25 generators from the FEMA distribution center 

in Caguas to Fort Buchanan for a regional power mission 

exercise. Due to unique weather challenges 

in the region, 1st MSC Soldiers train 

extensively on Continuity of Operations, 

or COOP, the program and 

set of procedures focused 

on preventing or 

mitigating the loss of 

essential functions. 

The Fort Buchanan-based 1st Mission Support Command provides mission control over Army 

Reserve units in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to ensure that units can successfully execute 

their wartime missions. 

PUERTO RICO MILITARY POLICE

FINANCE

ENGINEER

CIVIL AFFAIRS

MEDICAL

LOGISTICS

QUARTERMASTER

TRANSPORTATION

SIGNAL

TRAINING SUPPORT

PR CAPABILITIES
AMERICA’S ARMY RESERVE AT A GLANCE

120

SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

TERRITORY-WIDE

 - $1.4 Million 3 9 537 13

 $14,234,487 

 163 

 $4,542,394 

$15,522,702 

$10,017,649 

$1,298,468 

OPPOSITE PAGE

Riflemen from elements of 100th 

Battalion, 442 Infantry Regiment, 

carry a simulated battlefield casualty 

to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter 

for a medical evacuation training 

exercise. (Army Reserve photo) 

When Guam’s 368th Military 

Police Company deployed, 

they took over customs 

operations at Bagram Airfield 

and Kandahar Airfield, 

inspecting and scanning both 

passengers and cargo. In 

the past, the 368th MPs have 

deployed to Kuwait and Qatar.

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ENGINEER

MILITARY POLICE

GUAM CAPABILITIES GUAM

Infantry, engineer, quartermaster, military police and administrative support are among Guam’s 

resident Army Reserve capabilities. 

The 9th Mission Support Command oversees units in the 

unincorporated territory of the United States and part of 

the Mariana Island chain.

Soldiers of the 368th Military Police Company deployed 

to Afghanistan in order to support Operation Resolute 

Support and Freedom’s Sentinel in August 2016 for a 

nine-month tour. The 368th MPs took over customs 

operations at Bagram Airfield and Kandahar Airfield, 

inspecting and scanning both passengers and cargo. 

In the past, the 368th MPs have deployed 

to Kuwait and Qatar.

Soldiers of the 797th Engineer Company participated 

in Cobra Gold 2017 in Thailand. The combat engineers 

worked with military engineers from Thailand, Indonesia 

and other participating nations as they renovated 

and made structural improvements to schoolhouses, 

including electrical wiring and new coats of paint.
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

TERRITORY-WIDE

 - $0.5 Million 1 7 376 0

 $4,386,868 

 42 

 $1,377,314 

$6,159,625 

$6,149,924 

 $0 

American Samoa maintains among 

the highest enlistment rates in the 

U.S. and its territories.

PAGO PAGO

OPPOSITE PAGE

Soldiers from elements of 

the 100th Battalion, 442nd 

Infantry Regiment conduct 

patrol operations with 

French Armed Forces during 

a multinational military 

training exercise. (Photo 

courtesy Army Reserve)
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Two infantry companies of the 100th Battalion, 442nd 

Infantry Regiment are based in American Samoa. These 

Bravo and Charlie company “Go for Broke” Soldiers 

participate regularly in training exercises throughout the 

Pacific Rim sustaining readiness and building relations 

with America’s allies in the region while honoring the 

traditions of the battalion’s storied heritage.

Other units on the island are the 411th Forward Support 

Company, an Army Reserve Theater Support Group 

Detachment, 1st Evacuation/Mortuary Platoon, 962nd 

Quartermaster Company and the 127th Chaplain 

Detachment. These units also support Army Pacific 

and Pacific Command.

AMERICAN SAMOA INFANTRY

CHAPLAIN

AS CAPABILITIES

American Samoa is home to six units belonging to the 9th Mission Support Command. Proportionally, 

American Samoa maintains among the highest enlistment rates in the U.S. and its territories.

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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

TERRITORY-WIDE

 - $0.1 Million 1 1 21 0

 $632,969 

7 

 $201,486 

$720,837 

$562,387 

$0 

The 512th Movement Control Team Detachment 

on the Virgin Islands is the only Army Reserve 

unit in the commonwealth.

ST. CROIX

OPPOSITE PAGE

Soldiers of Virgin Islands Detachment of the 

512th Movement Control Team rucked up for 

a road march. The detachment is the only 

Army Reserve unit on the Virgin Islands. 

The 512th is part of the larger team based at 

Fort Buchanan. (Photo by Alphaeus Anthony)
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U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS

Soldiers from the Virgin 

Islands based 512th 

Movement Control, deployed

to Afghanistan to support 

the transfer of several 

Mine-Resistant Ambush 

Protected vehicles to the 

Afghan National Security 

Forces. (Photo by Sgt. 

1st Class David Wheeler)

TRANSPORTATION

VI CAPABILITY

The detachment, which is part of Fort Buchanan, 

Puerto Rico’s 512th MCT, is comprised of transportation 

management coordinators. 

Small and highly-specialized, these MCTs exemplify how 

the Army Reserve is aligning its force structure to the 

modular demands of the active-duty component.

The success of the team’s 2015 deployment to 

Afghanistan was recognized by the Association for Global 

Logistics and Transportation, which named the 512th 

MCT its 2015 “Military Unit of the Year.” 

In 2018, detachment Soldiers are slated to join the annual 

Virgin Island-based Vigilant Guard exercise for the first 

time. These full-scale natural disaster scenario exercises 

are led by U.S. Northern Command and stress-test the 

coordination of reserve component and active-duty units 

with civilian authorities role-playing with 

FEMA officials.

The roughly two dozen Soldiers of the St. Thomas-based 512th Movement Control Team detachment 

are the only Army Reserve unit on the Virgin Islands. 
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SEQUESTRATION IMPACT FY18

BY THE 

NUMBER$ 2018

FY

FACILITIES UNITS/DETS SOLDIERS CIVILIANS

ECONOMIC IMPACT

NON-DOD JOBS SUPPORTED

NON-DOD WAGES

DOLLARS SPENT

TOTAL MIL PAYROLL

TOTAL CIV PAYROLL

TERRITORY-WIDE

 - $0.3 Million

12 1040

 $3,072,659 

 34 

 $977,390 

$3,541,525 

$2,811,934 

$0 

The Theater Support 

Group Detachment 

Marianas provides 

base support and 

facility management 

for the more than 

600 Soldiers in both 

Guam and Saipan. OPPOSITE PAGE 

(clockwise from top)

A typical sunset on the shores 

of Saipan. (Photo courtesy 416th 

Theater Engineer Command)

Soldiers in the 9th Mission 

Support Command stationed in the 

Northern Marianas Islands train to 

remain tactically proficient in their 

Soldiering duties. (Photo courtesy 

416th Theater Engineer Command)

American fighting man pauses to 

shake sand from his boot while 

sitting on an unexploded 16-inch 

artillery shell, one of roughly 

160,000 shells fired by American 

forces in its invasion of Saipan and 

the Mariana Islands between June 

and July of 1944. (Photo courtesy 

U.S. Marines)

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Nearly 150 Army Reserve Soldiers live on Saipan, the largest 

of the 15 islands that constitute the Northern Mariana Islands. 

SAIPAN

Construction of a reserve 

center in Saipan was recently 

completed, offering better 

force protection through 

security measures and shelter 

from extreme weather and 

providing additional space for 

classroom instruction and 

administrative staff. 

Among Saipan’s units are the 

E Company infantryman of the 

famed “Go for Broke” 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment, as well 

as detachments from the 302nd Quartermaster Company and the Army 

Reserve Theater Support Group. The TSG Detachment Marianas provides 

base support and facility management for the more than 600 Soldiers in 

both Guam and Saipan.

NMI CAPABILITIES

INFANTRY

QUARTERMASTER
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As an Installation Management Command-operated installation under 

IMCOM Directorate-Readiness (ID-R), U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Buchanan is 

the only Department of Defense installation in the Caribbean. It serves more 

than 15,000 Active, Guard and Reserve component Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, 

Marines, and Coast Guardsmen, with an overall supported population of 

nearly 200,000 Family members, Civilians, and retirees located throughout 

Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami and Latin America. 

Fort Buchanan provides Base Operations Services to the community, 

while expanding training enabler and emergency management/ response 

capabilities to enhance the readiness of supported tenant units.

The garrison is striving to become the central hub for all Department of 

Defense activities in the Caribbean, committed to excellence, focused on 

improving the readiness of our supported commanders and aggressively 

developing partnerships in support of SOUTHCOM, DEA, and others to 

enhance relations with nearly eight regional foreign nations.

INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS

• 746.16 acres, $1.2 billion in plant value

• Key and strategic location capable of providing fast and cost-effective 

support to missions in the Caribbean as well as Central and South 

America areas or responsibility

• Hispanic cultural ties with Latin America

• Host of units from sister service reserve components representing 

the U.S. Armed Forces in Puerto Rico

U.S. ARMY RESERVE INSTALLATIONS

FORT BUCHANAN, PUERTO RICO 

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hunter Liggett provides heavy 

and light maneuver areas to support year-round joint, 

multi-component, multi-national customers. It is the Army 

Reserve’s largest installation, with more than 160,000 

acres of mountains, valleys, rivers, plains, and forests, 

providing ideal maneuver areas to meet the spectrum 

of training requirements. The strategic partnership 

with neighboring Camp Roberts provides a realistic and 

challenging Live, Virtual, and Constructive Integrated 

Training Environment.

Fort Hunter Liggett is also one of six pilot installations for 

Net Zero–Energy and Waste by the Assistant Secretary 

of the Army for Installation, Energy and Environment, 

recognized for achievements in 2014 and 2016.

INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS

• 160,000+ acres

• Supported more than 411,000 man days in 2016

• 5 mile, 360-degree Convoy Live Fire Course

• C-130/C-17 Dirt Landing Airstrip, heliport, landing 

and drop zones

• JNTC Certified Training Base (Joint National 

Capability Catalog)

• Strategic Partnership with Camp Roberts (CANG) to 

provide Live, Virtual, and Constructive Integrated 

Training Environment

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RESERVE FORCES 

TRAINING AREAS Fort McCoy is Wisconsin’s sole federally-operated Army 

installation, hosting premier training grounds and support 

infrastructure for large-scale exercises with nearly 60,000 

acres of ideal terrain and a four-season climate.

Each year, Fort McCoy provides support and facilities for the 

field and classroom training of more than 150,000 military 

personnel from all services. Fort McCoy supports numerous 

major Army Reserve exercises each year, including the 

Combat Support Training Exercise, Red Dragon, Global 

Medic, Warrior Exercise, and Operation Cold Steel.

Fort McCoy has supported many national defense missions, 

including Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, 

Noble Eagle, and New Dawn. More than 140,000 military 

personnel from 2,416 units mobilized or demobilized at Fort 

McCoy since 9/11.

Fort McCoy’s role as a major mobilization site was evident 

during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. More than 

18,000 Soldiers and 3,400 items of equipment were deployed 

and redeployed at Fort McCoy.

INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS

• More than 40 units & tenants

• 137,141 service members trained in 2016

• Brigade-sized operations

• All aspects of ULO (Unified Land Operations)

• L-V-C ITE (Live, Virtual, and Constructive Integrated 

Training Environment)

• JIIM (Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, 

and Multinational)

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN 

Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA), historically known as 

Camp Parks, has more than 2,400 acres and supports some 11,000 San 

Francisco Bay Area Army Reserve and California National Guard Soldiers 

from 180 units. PRFTA’s assets include a rappel tower, leadership 

reaction course, state-of-the art medical skills lab, distance learning 

center, and billet space for more than 800.

Comprised of more than 5,000 acres, Devens Reserve Forces Training 

Area is the “Army installation” in New England, enabling individual and 

battalion and below training to support Readiness and the Army Training 

Strategy. It provides state-of-the-art training capabilities, standardized 

services, and sustainable infrastructure, enabling the operational 

readiness of the Total Army Force as well as filling a critical need for 

training areas and ranges. 

Devens RFTA is designated as a FEMA Region I center with an operations 

center, billets, feeding, and equipment staging area.

Devens RFTA’s ranges include M9, M16, M203, M249, MK19, and M240; 

Demolition, Mortar, Hand Grenade; and Sniper Qualification.

PARKS RESERVE FORCES TRAINING AREA, 

CALIFORNIA 

DEVENS RESERVE FORCES TRAINING AREA, 

MASSACHUSETTS 
The Army Reserve includes substantial capabilities vital 

in disaster response and stands ready to support lead 

agencies for domestic emergencies and disaster relief 

efforts. Section 12304a of the 2012 National Defense 

Authorization Act provides authority for the Service 

Reserve Components to assist citizens and communities 

in the United States during domestic emergencies to 

save lives, prevent human suffering and mitigate great 

property damage.

The Army Reserve provides federal support to DSCA 

during emergencies with capabilities such as aviation 

lift, search and rescue or extraction, quartermaster 

(food, shelter, potable water, heated tents, etc.), civil 

affairs and public information as well as a significant 

portion of full-spectrum engineer capability. 

For example, Army Reserve medical evacuation 

helicopters can rapidly transport patients to criticalcare facilities, and our fixed-wing aircraft can provide 

America’s Army Reserve is structured with dual-purpose capabilities and, as such, is a Federal Response Partner, maintaining 

a ready posture for Defense Support to Civil Authorities operations as a resource and capability provider. The National Defense 

Authorization Act of 2012 expanded the Army Reserve capability to conduct DSCA response with increased mobilization 

authorities to rapidly activate units. 

DEFENSE SUPPORT 

OF CIVIL AUTHORITIES

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Soldiers with the 614th Engineer Detachment 

attack a helicopter-fuselage fire during a 

multi-unit mass casualty exercise at Fort 

Hunter Liggett’s Tusi Airfield. (Photo by 

Sgt. Kimberly Browne)
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rapid transportation within a disaster response area. 

Army Reserve heavy-lift helicopters can rapidly 

deliver critical supplies, equipment and construction 

material into affected areas. The Army Reserve is fully 

integrated into the standing Department of Defense task 

force postured for response to Chemical, Biological, 

Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) events.

The Army Reserve provides all of the Army’s Emergency 

Preparedness Liaison Officers and half of those in the 

Department of Defense. These EPLOs serve as conduits, 

maintaining communications among the Department 

of Defense, federal, state and local governments, 

and nongovernmental organizations to coordinate 

assistance among all parties during emergency 

response events. In fiscal year 2016, 53 EPLOs were 

mobilized for a total of 336 man-days in response to 

homeland requirements, including the Republican and 

Democratic National Conventions.

Left: A Soldier with the 

401st Chemical Company 

decontaminates a Stryker 

nuclear, biological and 

chemical reconnaissance 

vehicle during a training 

scenario at Exercise Red 

Dragon. Red Dragon is the 

Army Reserve’s annual 

Chemical, Biological, 

Radiological and Nuclear, 

training event. (Photo by 

Master Sgt. Marisol Walker)

Soldiers assigned to the 469th Medical 

Company, Ground Ambulance and Airmen, 

transport casualties from the point of drop 

off to the Air Force expeditionary medical 

support tent at forward operating base as 

part of Exercise Guardian Response. (Photo 

by Staff Sgt. Christopher Sofia)
NEARLY 200,000 ARMY RESERVE 

SOLDIERS ARE TRAINED, EQUIPPED 

AND ORGANIZED TO PERFORM A FULL 

RANGE OF OPERATIONS—including 

disaster response with facilities located 

in over 1,200 communities across the 

nation. Key Army Reserve capabilities 

available for disaster response include: • Aviation: Medical Evacuation, 

Medium and Heavy Lift Helicopters, 

Search and Rescue

• Engineers: Search and Rescue, 

Debris Removal, Horizontal 

and Vertical Construction, 

Portable Bridges

• Medical: Ground Ambulance, 

Combat Support Hospitals, 

Specialized Medical Teams, 

Veterinary Services

• Communications: Communications 

capability including satellite

• Logistics: Water, Petroleum, 

Generators, General Logistics

• Transportation: Light, Medium, and 

Heavy Trucks, Watercraft

• CBRN: Army Reserve Chemical, 

Biological, Radiological, and 

Nuclear incident response 

capabilities are trained and ready

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The Army Reserve will 

conduct DSCA response 

in two ways—immediate 

and deliberate. These 

responses differ in 

the authorities under 

which they are conducted 

and the source of 

the support request. 

Responses can be 

conducted independently 

or as part of a larger 

response effort. 

Deliberate response 

is conducted by Army 

Reserve units and 

Soldiers under the 

mobilization authority 

specified in Title 10 

U.S. Code Section 12304 

and Title 10 U.S. Code 

Section 12304a.

Title 10 USC Section 

12304 authorizes federal 

reserve units, including the Army Reserve, 

to respond to certain emergencies and 

humanitarian assistance in other nations. 

This includes the authority to order up to 

200,000 members of the components to active 

duty for a continuous period of up to 365 days 

to provide assistance to either the federal 

government or an individual state in time 

of a serious man-made disaster, accident 

or natural catastrophe. 

Title 10 USC Section 12304a (enacted with 

the passage of the 2012 National Defense 

Authorization Act) authorizes federal component 

units to provide disaster assistance to address 

a major natural disaster or emergency in the 

United States. This includes the authority to 

order any unit, and any member not assigned 

to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the 

component to active duty for a continuous 

period of not more than 120 days to respond 

to a governor’s request.

Above: Army Reserve aviation assets 

routinely conduct firefighting opera-

tions and search and rescue missions 

such as those regularly conducted over 

Mount Rainier, Washington. (Photo by 

Master Sgt. Marisol Walker)
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IMMEDIATE RESPONSE 

AUTHORITY SUPPORT 

INCLUDES:

Immediate response is conducted by Army Reserve units and Soldiers under the 

Immediate Response Authority (IRA) outlined in DoD Directive 3025.18, which 

authorizes local commanders to take action to save lives, prevent human suffering 

or mitigate great property damage in an urgent situation when there is insufficient time 

to get approval from higher headquarters.

IMMEDIATE RESPONSE 

AUTHORITY • Distribution of medicine, 

food, consumable supplies 

and services

• Removal of debris and road 

clearance for immediate 

restoration of emergency and 

essential services

• Emergency medical care, 

search and rescue

• Transportation of supplies 

and persons

• Restoration of essential services

• Construction of temporary 

bridges and facilities for 

shelters, schools and essential 

public services

• Demolition of unsafe structures 

and posting hazard warnings

• Dissemination of public 

information on health and 

safety measures

• Technical and advisory 

assistance to state/local officials

As listed in DoD Directive 

3025.18, a request for 

assistance from a civil 

authority (tribal authority, 

mayor, chief of police, 

fire chief, sheriff, chief of 

emergency management, 

etc.) is required to initiate 

the Immediate Response 

Authority. Following the 

request, Army Reserve units 

within the affected area may 

respond immediately to 

imminently serious disasters 

or attacks as required by 

civil authorities and within 

limits established by law.

Hurricane Harvey Response: Command Sgt. Maj. Judd Moosa, 11th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, 

assists an elderly resident being airlifted from a flood-impacted area. At the request of state and local 

authorities, the Army Reserve provided critical response capabilities, including search and rescue, 

aviation, engineer, transportation, medical and communications support. Within five days,* Army Reserve 

Soldiers executed more than 28 vehicle and aviation missions, rescuing more than 4,700 civilians—

including women, children and elderly—and more than 80 pets. (Photo by Capt. Loyal Auterson)

*At press time
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U.S. ARMY RESERVE HISTORY

THE STRATEGIC RESERVE (1946-1990)

In enacting the Armed Forces Reserve Act 

of 1952, Congress declared that the Army 

Reserve is “necessary for a balanced force” 

and shall be “maintained for the purpose 

of providing trained units and qualified 

individuals to be available for active duty” to 

meet requirements that cannot be met by the 

Active Army.

The “Total Force Policy,” developed in the 

early 1970s, integrated active and reserve 

forces enabling the nation to maintain an 

active force as small as possible to meet 

peacetime commitments, while using the 

reserves for force generation in times of 

conflict. The policy was championed by 

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Creighton Abrams, 

shaped by his view that, “They’re not going 

to take us to war again without the Reserve.” 

MANPOWER RESERVE (1908-1945): Congress first created a federal reserve force in 1908, the Medical Reserve Corps, to 

remedy mobilization and preparedness challenges experienced during the nation’s wars of the 1800s. At the time, no 

reserve force existed under direct command and control of the federal government. Led by former President Theodore 

Roosevelt, the “Preparedness Movement” set the stage for the National Defense Act of 1916, which created the Officer’s 

Reserve Corps and the Enlisted Reserve Corps, predecessors to the current Army Reserve.

The crew of a 90 mm anti-aircraft gun prepares to 

fire during summer training at Yakima, Washington, 

Training Center in June 1954. These men are 

members of the 405th AAA Bn. (Photo courtesy 

of Office of Army Reserve History)
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As designed, integration of the active and 

reserve components ensured critical linkage 

between the employment of force and public 

support for military action.

The Army Reserve has evolved into an 

operational reserve for Total Army and Joint 

Force requirements. The Army Reserve can 

“quickly task organize into force packages...

[that] can be tailored to support a full range 

of missions, including homeland response, 

theater security cooperation and overseas 

contingency operations.” 

During the Korean War (1950-1953), more 

than 240,000 Army Reserve Soldiers were 

called to active duty, though that experience 

demonstrated that the mobilization system 

in place at the time was “not properly 

organized to permit an orderly augmentation 

of the armed forces.” Through the Armed 

Forces Reserve Act of 1952, Congress 

transformed the Organized Reserve Corps 

into the U.S. Army Reserve, and divided the 

structure into a Ready Reserve, Standby 

Reserve and Retired Reserve. 

When creating the Army Reserve, Congress 

authorized 24 inactive duty training days a 

year, up to 17 days of active duty training and 

gave the president the authority to call 

to active duty up to 1 million personnel 

from the reserve components to meet 

requirements in excess of those provided 

by the “Regular components.” 

Following the Korean War, and in response to 

force structure challenges, the Army sought 

to maintain the integrity of mobilized Army 

Reserve units by not stripping personnel 

out of organized units as replacements 

for other units. Rather, reserve units were 

mobilized and deployed as fully trained and 

manned units. At the end of the Vietnam War, 

and following the reduction of Active Army 

end-strength from 1.5 million to 785,000, 

the 1973 “Total Force Policy” placed an 

increased reliance on reserve units for rapid 

deployment, and integrated active duty and 

reserve forces into a “total force.” 

Integrating active and reserve forces 

enabled the nation to maintain an active 

force as small as possible to meet peacetime 

commitments, while utilizing the reserves 

for force generation in times of conflict. The 

Total Force Policy gave rise to the “Abrams 

Doctrine,” named for Army Chief of Staff 

General Creighton Abrams. 

Left: U.S. Soldiers on patrol near Hue, South Vietnam, 1971. Over 

100,000 individual members of the U.S. Army Reserve served on 

active duty each year from 1967 through 1971, and many of these 

men and women did serve in Southeast Asia. (U.S. Army photo)

The Army Reserve has 

evolved into an “operational 

reserve” and an “enabler” 

for Total Army and Joint 

Force requirements.
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THE OPERATIONAL RESERVE 

(1990-PRESENT)

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the 

Cold War, the peacetime military was faced 

with reduced budgets and active forces. In 

response, Congress sought to leverage the 

reserve components to fill the gap, requiring 

the Army Reserve to man, equip and train at 

Active Army levels. To improve the combat 

readiness of the reserve components, 

Congress created the United States Army 

Reserve Command in 1990 to provide for more 

centralized management. 

One of the most 

impactful changes to 

the force mix was the 1993 

“Offsite Agreement,” which 

stabilized force structure and 

end-strength reductions, enabling 

the Army to place more operational 

reliance on the Army Reserve. As directed 

by then Chief of Staff of the Army, each 

of the reserve components would take 

ARMY HERO PFC. DESMOND DOSS

Combat medic Pfc. Desmond Doss received the 

Medal of Honor for outstanding gallantry during 

the Battle of Okinawa, while serving with the 77th 

Infantry Division. 

As his battalion took heavy casualties from a 

concentration of mortar, artillery and machine gun 

fire, Doss refused cover and remained in the fireswept battlefield to care for the wounded. 

Seriously wounded by a grenade, Doss waited five 

hours for litter bearers to reach him. When the three 

men came under attack from an enemy tank, the 

Lynchburg, Virginia native gave his place to a more 

seriously wounded Soldier, instead crawling 300 

yards to the aid station.

Actor Andrew Garfield 

(right) was nominated 

for an Academy Award 

for his 2016 portrayal 

of Doss in the film 

“Hacksaw Ridge.” (Cross Creek Pictures photo 

by Mark Rogers)

President Harry 

Truman presents 

Medal of Honor to 

Pfc. Desmond Doss. 

(Photo courtesy 

of the Truman 

Presidential Library)
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on distinct roles, with a majority of the 

Army’s technical enablers residing in the 

Army Reserve, available for peacetime and 

combat operations. 

After the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990, 

Army Reserve forces filled the breach. 

Approximately 80,000 Army Reserve Soldiers 

were activated, and about 40 percent of the 

Operation Desert Storm ground forces were 

either from National Guard or Reserve units. 

Then, during the Balkans conflict from 1995 

to 2000, Army Reserve Soldiers made up 70 

percent of the Army’s combat support and 

combat service support elements.

Following the global response to the 9/11 

terrorist attacks, the Army developed a 

force generation model that made reserve 

component contributions fundamental to 

meeting the nation’s security requirements. 

During this period, the Army Reserve 

achieved unprecedented levels of readiness, 

underscoring its current role as an 

operational force. At the height of Global 

War on Terror, the reserve components 

comprised nearly 28 percent of U.S. forces 

deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. 

Today, the Army Reserve’s operational role 

has expanded to include units prepared 

to mobilize and deploy on compressed 

timelines. As throughout history, whether 

as part of the operational force or providing 

operational and strategic depth, America’s 

Army Reserve is ready deploy with the 

mobility, survivability, connectivity and 

lethality needed to win on the battlefield. 

Above: Multiple types of vehicles loading onto Army watercraft, including 

the USAV Maj. Gen. Robert Smalls (LSV 8) and the USAV Churubusco (LCU 

2013), at Kuwait Naval Base. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Peter Berardi)

Left: A Soldier assigned to the 431st Civil Affairs Battalion comforts a 

puppy during the Taskforce Razorback Innovative Readiness Training 

spay/neuter clinic. The IRT mission served the residents of a seven county 

area known locally as the Arkansas Delta region. (Photo by Timothy Hale)

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Below: Soldiers from the 404th Civil Affairs 

Battalion transport simulated casualties to 

a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the 

New Jersey Army National Guard’s 1-150th 

Assault Helicopter Battalion during Exercise 

Gridiron. (U.S. Air National Guard photo 

by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht)

They’re not going to 

take us to war without 

the Reserves.

— Gen. Creighton Abrams
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Charles W. Whittlesey

WORLD WAR I

Charles Whittlesey was 

awarded the Medal of Honor for 

commanding the famous “Lost 

Battalion” of the 77th Infantry 

Division. Whittlesey served as 

one of six honorary pallbearers at 

the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 

dedication on Nov. 11, 1921, in 

Arlington National Cemetery.

NOTEWORTHY SOLDIERS

Harry S. Truman

WORLD WAR I

Harry Truman served as a 

captain commanding Battery D, 

129th Field Artillery. After the 

war, he entered public service 

and served in the Army Reserve 

attaining the rank of colonel. He 

later became the 33rd President. 

In 1948, President Truman 

signed Executive Order 9981 

desegregating the armed forces.

The U.S. Army Reserve 

has always been 

comprised of men and 

women with great talents 

and abilities. Those 

abilities manifest 

themselves through 

leadership, bravery and 

strong ambition. 

Among those who have 

answered the call to 

serve, some famous 

names have emerged. 

These men and women 

not only proved 

themselves to be great 

Soldiers but great 

citizens as well. From 

politicians to entertainers 

to presidents of the 

United States, here are 

some Citizen Soldiers you 

may well recognize...

Eddie Rickenbacker

WORLD WAR I

Eddie Rickenbacker is the highestscoring American fighter ace of 

World War I with 26 confirmed 

victories, retiring with the rank 

of major. He earned the Medal of 

Honor for attacking seven enemy 

planes on his own, resulting in one 

going down. Rickenbacker served 

as a military consultant for the U.S. 

Government during World War II. 
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Be bold. When 

you embark for 

strange places, 

don’t leave any 

of yourself safely 

on shore. Have 

the nerve to go 

into unexplored 

territory.

— Alan Alda

William J. Donovan

WORLD WAR I and II

William J. Donovan was awarded 

the Medal of Honor in World War I 

and became the first commander 

of the 301st Cavalry Regiment, 

61st Cavalry Division, Organized 

Reserve in the interwar years. 

He formed the Office of Strategic 

Services (OSS), which later 

became the Central Intelligence 

Agency (CIA), during World War II.

Ronald Reagan

PRE-WORLD WAR II

Ronald Reagan enlisted in the Army 

Enlisted Reserve on Apr. 29, 1937, as 

a Private assigned to Troop B, 322nd 

Cavalry at Des Moines, Iowa. He was 

appointed second lieutenant in the 

Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Cavalry 

on May 25, 1937. In April 1942, Reagan 

was ordered to active duty and 

transferred to the Army Air Forces. 

By 1943, he was promoted to captain 

and served stateside in the 1st Motion 

Picture Unit, making training films for 

the war effort. The unit produced over 

400 training films during the war. He 

became the 40th President.

Mel Brooks

WORLD WAR II

Mel Brooks served as a corporal 

and combat engineer in the 78th 

Infantry Division with the 1104th 

Engineer Combat Battalion. The 

unit built bridges, cleared blocked 

roads, and deactivated landmines 

ahead of advancing Allied forces. 

He is one of few entertainers 

that have won an Emmy, an 

Oscar, a Grammy, and a Tony 

award. In 2013, he received the 

41st American Film Institute Life 

Achievement. 
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One doesn’t 

become a Soldier 

in a week—it takes 

training, study and 

discipline. There is 

no question that the 

finest Army in the 

world is found in 

the United States.

— Daniel Inouye

Henry Kissinger

WORLD WAR II

Henry Kissinger served in the 

84th Infantry Division. As a 

Jewish immigrant from Germany, 

Kissinger was assigned to the 

military intelligence section of 

the 84th and volunteered for 

hazardous duty during the Battle 

of the Bulge. Due to his fluency 

in German, he was reassigned to 

the Counter Intelligence Corps 

as a sergeant and was involved in 

establishing civilian administration 

and tracking down Nazis. He later 

became the 56th Secretary of State 

and Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Malcolm Forbes

WORLD WAR II

Malcolm Forbes was assigned 

to a heavy machine gun section 

of the 334th Infantry Regiment, 

84th Infantry Division. He 

was wounded in the Battle of 

Aachen in Germany and spent 

ten months recovering before 

being discharged in August 

1945 and receiving the Bronze 

Star and Purple Heart. He later 

became a famous publisher 

and entrepreneur.

Daniel Inouye

WORLD WAR II

Daniel Inouye served as a captain 

in the 442nd Regimental Combat 

Team. He was awarded the 

Distinguished Service Cross, 

upgraded in 2000 to the Medal 

of Honor, for his actions fighting 

Germans in Italy. After the war, 

Inouye entered public service and 

became a United States Senator 

representing Hawaii. 
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Leonard Nimoy

COLD WAR ERA

Leonard Nimoy enlisted in the 

Army Reserve in 1953 and served 

a total of 18 months. He spent 

most of his time at Ft. McPherson, 

Georgia, and was discharged in 

1955 having earned the rank of 

sergeant. He became famous for 

his role in the television series, 

“Star Trek,” portraying halfVulcan, half-human science officer 

of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Spock. 

He was also prominent in stage 

and major motion pictures as well 

as a respected photographer.

...they’ll bury me 

here before I quit.

—	Maj. Lisa Jaster

	 ...on attending the final “swamp

phase” at Ranger School.

	 Jaster is the third female to earn

the Army Ranger Tab.

Alan Alda

KOREA

Alan Alda enrolled in the Reserve 

Officer Training Corps (ROTC) 

while in college and went to Fort 

Benning, Georgia for a year after 

graduation. As an Army Reserve 

artillery officer, Alda served a sixmonth tour during the Korean War. 

He later became a famous actor, 

well known for his portrayal of 

Hawkeye, the witty field surgeon in 

the hit television series “M.A.S.H.” 

John Fogerty

VIETNAM ERA

John Fogerty served briefly in the 

Army Reserve. During his one year 

term from 1966 to 1967, Fogerty 

served at Fort Bragg, Fort Knox, 

and Fort Lee. He later became the 

famous front man for Credence 

Clearwater Revival (CCR).
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Gregory Ruske

AFGHANISTAN

Sgt. Gregory Ruske, a third 

generation Army Soldier, assigned 

to 5025th Garrison Support Unit, 

serving with Task Force Gladiator, 

Combined Joint Task Force 101, 

was on patrol in Afghanistan, April 

2008, when Taliban insurgents 

attacked his unit. In the ensuing 

six-hour battle, Ruske—shot in the 

hip and still under intense enemy 

fire—risked his life to rescue a 

wounded Afghan police officer. 

For his actions that day, Ruske, a 

Colorado Springs, Colorado native, 

was awarded the Silver Star, the 

nation’s third-highest military 

award for valor.

Jason Fetty 

AFGHANISTAN

Staff Sgt. Jason Fetty deployed to 

Afghanistan with the 364th Civil 

Affairs Brigade and became the 

first Army Reserve Soldier to earn 

the Silver Star in Afghanistan. While 

questioning an unfamiliar individual 

at the opening of the Khost medical 

facility, February 2007, Fetty 

became convinced he was dealing 

with a suicide bomber. He kept 

himself between the insurgent and 

attending officials and physicians 

while nearby personnel were 

evacuated. The standoff escalated 

into a physical altercation until, 

recognizing the bomber’s intent, 

Fetty dove to the ground as the 

vest detonated. Due to his actions, 

countless lives were spared and 

vital medical resources were saved.

David Hutchinson 

AFGHANISTAN

Spc. David Hutchinson, 420th 

Engineer Brigade, was ambushed 

by enemy insurgents firing rocket 

propelled grenades and machine 

guns from a hillside in Afghanistan, 

May 2008. He quickly returned heavy 

fire, destroying the machine gun 

position, killing at least five enemy 

insurgents. Despite collapsing 

from being wounded in the right 

leg by shrapnel from a grenade, 

he calmly treated his severely 

injured first sergeant as his convoy 

moved out of the kill zone. When 

medical help arrived, Hutchinson 

refused treatment until his wounded 

first sergeant had been carried 

away first. For his actions, he was 

awarded the Silver Star, the nation’s 

third highest award for combat valor.

Jeremy Church

IRAQ WAR

Pfc. Jeremy Church, 724th 

Transportation Company, was the 

Army Reserve’s first Silver Star 

recipient in the Iraq War and its 

first since the Vietnam War. When 

his convoy was ambushed by more 

than 150 al-Sadr militia in April 

2004, Church navigated onehanded through the kill zone while 

firing his M-16 out the window. 

Once safely away and security was 

established, Church and fellow 

Soldiers returned to load the 

wounded. With no room left, Church 

volunteered to stay behind firing 

at and killing insurgents until the 

recovery team returned. He loaded 

up several more wounded before 

sweeping the area for sensitive 

items and evacuating.
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James Witkowski

IRAQ WAR

Sgt. James Witkowski, 729th 

Transportation Company, and 100 fellow 

Soldiers were transporting supplies 

through a village in Iraq, October 2005. 

Insurgents attacked the convoy with 

small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, 

mortars and armor-piercing rounds. 

Through the mile-long ambush, he 

returned .50-caliber machine gun 

fire. When a grenade landed inside his 

turret, Witkowski made the split-second 

decision to shield his comrades, taking 

the full brunt of the detonation with 

his body and saving the lives of three 

Soldiers. His actions enabled the convoy 

to clear away with only minor injuries. 

Witkowski was posthumously awarded 

the Silver Star, the nation’s thirdhighest award for courage under fire.

Deshauna Barber

Capt. Deshauna Barber, 

commander of the 988th 

Quartermaster Detachment, 

Rockville, Maryland, crowned 

on June 5, 2016, was the first 

woman actively serving in the 

United States military to win 

the 2016 Miss USA title. Barber 

took the stage as an ambassador 

for Soldiers and veterans and 

dedicated her platform to shining a 

light on the very serious issues of 

post-traumatic stress disorder and 

gender equality in the services.

Lisa Jaster

Maj. Lisa Jaster, an individual 

mobilization augmentee with the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 

Huntsville, Alabama, became the 

third female to earn the Army 

Ranger Tab, Oct. 16, 2015. Her 

experience at 37 years of age in 

the first pilot program contributed 

to assessing the impact of 

integrating women into combat 

roles across services, and her 

success was instrumental in the 

recent Department of Defense 

decision to allow female service 

members to serve in any job for 

which they meet gender-neutral 

performance standards.

Sam Kendricks

1st Lt. Sam Kendricks, Oxford, 

Mississippi, is an Army Reserve 

Soldier and the 2017 World 

Champion pole vaulter. The 

Olympic athlete won the Bronze 

Medal during the 2016 Summer 

Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and 

gained attention across the globe 

for stopping mid-stride in the 

preliminary round and dropping 

his pole to render honors during 

the playing of the National 

anthem. Captured on camera, 

the moment was broadcast on 

television and social media and 

received kudos from former 

President Barack Obama.
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STRATEGIC PARTNERS

LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

Connecting elected officials to Army Reserve Soldiers in 

communities across America

The Army Reserve Legislative Affairs Division 

engages Congressional Members and staff, state 

governors, elected officials, and Military and 

Veteran Service Organizations in order to inform 

them about Army Reserve equities, missions, 

priorities, and initiatives. Additionally, the LAD team 

tells the Army Reserve story through facilitating 

engagements and events with Army Reserve 

senior leaders, Soldiers, civilian employees, and 

family members in an effort to build enduring 

relationships that foster trust and confidence in the 

Army Reserve. 

In accordance with congressional statutory 

requirements, the Army Reserve’s Legislative 

Affairs Division is directly responsible to the Chief of 

Army Reserve (CAR) for ensuring the integration of 

the CAR’s strategic priorities.

Their role is to coordinate and disseminate timely, 

critical and accurate information to Members 

of Congress, congressional committees and 

professional staff members. They also serve 

as a conduit between Members of Congress, 

constituents, government and non-government 

entities, providing accurate, clear and concise 

formulated written and oral responses to 

professional and congressional inquiries.

Support at the local, state and federal government 

level is provided by 12 legislative affairs 

representatives in its corporate office and four fulltime legislative liaisons located at each of its four 

Regional Support Commands

LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS DIVISION, 

NATIONAL CAPITOL REGION:

Division Chief 

(703) 835-3357 

gregory.a.scheidhauer.mil@mail.mil

Branch Chief, Legislative Liaison

(571) 393-0468 

paul.s.drury.mil@mail.mil

Deputy Chief, Legislative Affairs 

Division

(571) 356-4445 

richard.d.root2.civ@mail.mil

Congressional Affairs Contact Officer 

(703) 475-0413 

dorothy.g.singletary.civ@mail.mil
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The Army Reserve Ambassador Program is 

one of the Army Reserve’s key outreach 

programs. Comprised of 100 active and 

emeritus ambassadors from across 

the nation, ARAs provide a relevant and 

invaluable link between the Army Reserve 

and their communities. Similar to the Army’s 

Civilian Aides to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) 

program, the ARA program provides a powerful 

means of message delivery to the American people.

ARAs are relied upon to:

• Seek support from elected officials and engage 

stakeholders at local and state government 

levels.

• Forge and sustain enduring relationships

between Army Reserve units and local 

communities to improve the understanding of and 

appreciation for the Army Reserve. 

• Open doors in business, industry and institutions 

of higher learning. 

• Educate and inform the public, 

government, business, military and veteran 

service organizations about the value and 

positive return on investment of the Army 

Reserve.

• Build a cadre of supporters and advocates 

that can be activated when necessary.

The long term relationships built by Army Reserve 

Ambassadors ensure the voice of the Army Reserve 

is heard in communities and 

cities across the nation. 

The Army Reserve 

Ambassador Program is just 

one of the ways the Army’s 

Federal Reserve Force is 

enhancing relationships 

across outreach efforts and 

communicating the value of 

America’s Army Reserve.

AMBASSADORS

ARMY RESERVE AMBASSADORS:

TO SUPPORT SOLDIERS

AND FAMILIES

Find your local Ambassador at 

www.armyreserve.army.mil/ambassadors

BUILDING 

RELATIONSHIPS

PROGRAM MANAGER, OFFICE OF 

THE CHIEF, ARMY RESERVE: 

Fort Belvoir, Va.

Ms. Vonda Chisolm 

(703) 806-7717 

vonda.n.chisolm.civ@mail.mil

REGIONAL COORDINATORS:

63rd RSC / Moffett Field, Calif. 

(650) 526-9824 

81st RSC / Fort Jackson, S.C.

Mr. Marty Wells

(803) 751-9696 

martin.r.wells.civ@mail.mil

88th RSC / Fort McCoy, Wis.

Dr. Katherine Bissonette

(608) 388-0331 

katherine.m.bissonette.civ@mail.mil

99th RSC / Fort Dix, N.J.

Mr. Richard Castelveter

(609) 562-7617 

richard.e.castelveter.civ@mail.mil

1st MSC / Fort Buchanan, P.R.

Ms. Maricela Beltran

(787) 707-4928 

maricela.barberibeltran.civ@mail.mil

9th MSC / Honolulu, Hawaii

(703) 806-7717

Army Reserve Ambassador Program: “Strength through 

Strategic Partnerships” 

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

Melissa Russell, Editor in Chief

Staff Sgt. Phillip Valentine, Managing Editor

Staff Sgt. Neil W. McCabe, Contributing Editor

MAPS/FACILITIES: 

Andrea Parish , Mathew Wheeler

ECONOMIC IMPACT:

Lt. Col. Buddy Bright, Mr. Larry Wallace 

and Capt. Joe Cordell

PUBLIC AFFAIRS SUPPORT: 

Staff Sgt. Deidra Jackson, Maj. William 

Geddes, Master Sgt. Michel Sauret, 

Maj. Dana Kelly, Maj. Liana Kim, Shawn 

Morris, Anthony Taylor, Maj. Malisa Hamper, 

Lt. Col. Angel Wallace, Michael Mascari, 

Capt. Valerie Palacios, Lt. Col. James Lincoln, 

Maj. Addie Leonhardt, Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth 

Breckenkamp, Sgt. 1st Class Kenny Scott, 

Maj. Anthony Buchannan, Saska Ball, Sgt. 1st 

Class Stephen Crofoot, Sgt. Jessica DuVernay

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Gary Morris, Joe Sullivan, 

Col. Gerald Ostlund, Mr. Franklin Childress, 

Col. Mike Stewart, Terri Lukach, 

Lt. Col. Monica Radtke, Bill Hamilton 

and Brig. Gen. Mark Towne

Opposite: A CH-47 Chinook helicopter 

flown by Bravo Company, 7th Battalion, 

158th Aviation Regiment, carries an 

improved ribbon bridge bay to the 

Arkansas River during Operation River 

Assault, a bridging training exercise 

involving Army Engineers and other 

support elements to create a modular 

floating bridge on the water at Fort 

Chaffee, Ark. (Photo by Master Sgt. 

Michel Sauret)
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