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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 820 

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the Reserve Officers Association, now 

known as the Reserve Organization of America. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 

Mr. BLUNT (for himself and Mr. PETERS) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the Reserve Officers Association, now known as the Reserve Organization of 

America. 

Whereas the Reserve Officers Association was founded on October 2, 1922, by the General of the Armies John J. 

‘‘Black Jack’’ Pershing and other veterans at the Willard 

Hotel in Washington, DC; 

Whereas the founders of the Reserve Officers Association, 

who were veterans of World War I, believed that the 

United States was vulnerable to returning to the state of 

unreadiness that preceded World War I and that they 

needed to prevent the same level of unreadiness in future 

conflicts; 

Whereas the Reserve Officers Association was chartered by 

President Harry S. Truman, one of the early members of 


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the Reserve Officers Association, in the Act entitled ‘‘An 

Act to Incorporate the Reserve Officers Association of the 

United States’’, approved June 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 312, 

chapter 431); 

Whereas the congressional charter established the Reserve 

Officers Association, now known as the Reserve Organization of America, ‘‘to support a military policy for the 

United States that will provide adequate national security’’; 

Whereas the Reserve Organization of America is the only all 

ranks, all services, military service organization for the 

Reserve and National Guard, also known as the Reserve 

components, in the United States; 

Whereas, in 2022, the Reserve Organization of America celebrates 100 years of serving the servicemembers and veterans of the uniformed services and the Reserve components, their families, and reserve employers; and 

Whereas the Reserve Organization of America was instrumental in the adoption of the Reserve Forces Bill of 

Rights and Vitalization Act (Public Law 90–168; 81 

Stat. 521), which, among other measures, established the 

Selected Reserve in each service, provided adequate fiscal 

and equipment support for the Selected Reserve, and established assistant secretaries for reserve affairs and designated a general or flag officer responsible for reserve 

affairs for each Armed Force: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) recognizes that the Reserve Organization of 

3 America is a respected advocate for national security 

4 and readiness; 


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1 (2) honors the vital role the Reserve Organiza2 tion of America has played throughout the organiza3 tion’s 100 years of service in strengthening the stra4 tegic and operational role of the Reserve components 

5 of the United States military; and 

6 (3) supports the Reserve Organization of Amer7 ica’s focus on the readiness of the Reserve compo8 nents and the care of those who serve in the Reserve 

9 and National Guard, their families, and veterans of 

10 the Reserve components. 

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