Their talent, experience and energy will help advance Total Force integration by giving the Reserve components new voices at the senior levels of the Department. And General Schultz, who will soon replace General Navas, did a superb job as Deputy Director of Military Support. It has been my pleasure to have worked with him on the WMD issue. General Schultz might be moving on to another leadership position, but Secretary Cohen s commitment to integration ensures that the DOMS Deputy Director will henceforth be a Guard general officer. Furthermore, it ensures that up to one half of the action officers in DOMS will be drawn from the Reserve Components.
Integration continues on the resourcing front as well.
For example, the development of the FY99 budget marked unprecedented involvement by the Reserve components. For the first time, each Reserve component Chief was invited to participate with senior DoD leaders, including Secretary Cohen and Deputy Secretary Hamre, in the deliberations of the Program Review Group and the Defense Resources Board. DRB.This participation has had a very positive impact on the process. It resulted in adjustments in Service budgets to increase readiness funding for the Reserve Components. The Services are now working hard on developing their respective POMs Program Objectives Memoranda which lay out their proposed resourcing priorities and levels for the next six years, FY 2000-FY2005.Both the Army Guard and the Air Guard are integrated into this process with their own respective parent Service.