ABOUT US

 

 

 

 

 

VISION

The Army Reserve of 2035 provides TRAINED AND EQUIPPED units and personnel at the SCALE AND SPEED required to support the Total Force in a JOINT, MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. The Army Reserve accomplishes this through continuous improvements and prudent investments in READINESS and MODERNIZATION priorities while balancing the training requirements and QUALITY OF LIFE NEEDS of our Soldiers, Civilians, and Families.

MISSION

To provide COMBAT-READY units and Soldiers to the Army and the Joint Force ACROSS THE FULL SPECTRUM OF CONFLICT.

U.S. Army Reserve is Combat Ready!
Today’s Army Reserve covers more than 20 time zones, across 5 continents. Our people bring their purpose and passion to employers in communities across the entire globe. Now, more than ever, America needs a powerful and resilient force, ready to deliver vital capabilities in an ever-changing landscape of both visible and invisible threats, we stand ready to defeat our enemies, any time, anywhere. America’s Army Reserve is Twice the Citizen, Combat Ready!
Origin Story
Congress first created the Army Medical Reserve Corps in 1908 to remedy wartime challenges experienced in the 1800s. Since then, the Army Reserve plays a critical role in combat support and humanitarian aid at home and abroad. We follow Great War Soldiers in the trenches, who encounter a familiar face from back home. Director: Tim Yao; Sound/ PA: Colton Huston
Soldiers and Civilians Across: A History of the United States Army Reserve
Documentary about the history of the United States Army Reserve in celebration of the 112th year anniversary. The Army Reserve of today can trace its roots as a "national" or federal Citizen-Soldier force that goes back more than a century. Over the years, with the crisis of a major war, the federal government mobilized large Citizen-Soldier forces and trained them for combat operations. Today, the Army Reserve has more than 200,000 Soldiers and Civilian employees and 2,000 units spread across 20 time zones. Army Reserve Warrior Citizens have been tested in the crucible of combat, earning their status as full partners in those operations; no longer a supplemental, strategic reserve force but rather an able and operational force upon whom the Nation must routinely call. (U.S. Army Reserve Video by Staff Sgt. Rodney Roldan)

In an era of great power competition, the Army needs forces able to compete with adversaries, respond to crises, win in conflict, and prepare for the future. To accomplish this mission, the Army needs a dedicated federal reserve force that is ready today and prepared to meet the challenges of tomorrow. That force is the United States Army Reserve.

The Army Reserve is Ready Now, providing Soldiers and units to Combatant Commanders, enabling competition around the globe, supporting civil authorities in the homeland and conducting the foundational training required to win in great power conflict.

Nearly 190,000 Army Reserve Soldiers and 11,000 Civilians are present in all 50 States, five U.S. territories, and deployed to 23 countries around the world. The Army Reserve contains nearly half of the Army’s maneuver support and a quarter of its force mobilization capacity at only 6% of the total Army budget.

The Joint Force cannot deploy, fight, and win without the Army Reserve. The Army provides the bulk of sustainment and enabling forces to other services, and most of these enabling forces reside in the Army Reserve.

Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Shane Seleznoff, a Stryker vehicle commander and native of Forney, Texas, assigned to 1st Reconnaissance Platoon, 360th Chemical Company, 468th Chemical Battalion, 209th Regional Support Group, 76th Operational Response Command, loads ammunition into a M2 .50 caliber machine-gun before heading downrange to qualify on crew-served platform gunnery as part of Operation Gauntlet at Fort Riley, Kansas, April 2. More than 450 Army Reserve Soldiers from around the country are participating in the three-week gunnery exercise to hone crucial gunnery skills and increase battlefield lethality. (Official U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell)

Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Shane Seleznoff, a Stryker vehicle commander and native of Forney, Texas, assigned to 1st Reconnaissance Platoon, 360th Chemical Company, 468th Chemical Battalion, 209th Regional Support Group, 76th Operational Response Command, loads ammunition into a M2 .50 caliber machine-gun before heading downrange to qualify on crew-served platform gunnery as part of Operation Gauntlet at Fort Riley, Kansas, April 2. More than 450 Army Reserve Soldiers from around the country are participating in the three-week gunnery exercise to hone crucial gunnery skills and increase battlefield lethality. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell)

Meeting ongoing defense and security demands requires continued access to, and reliance upon, the skills, capabilities, and experience of a ready Army Reserve.

A federal operational Army Reserve force saves the Army money; reduces the demand for Active Army capabilities; mitigates Army capability shortfalls, and preserves the readiness of the Total Army. Army Reserve depth and scalability meets current and anticipated requirements of the Combatant Commands; achieves a cost-efficient balance by using the strengths and capabilities of each component; and provides a sufficient base of trained, equipped and ready Soldiers, leaders and units from which the Active Component may draw upon when needed. Most importantly, a ready and operational Army Reserve provides the critical enabling capabilities that combat forces rely upon to win America’s wars.

When Unified Land Operations are required, the Nation integrates and synchronizes all of America’s military services, but it can do so only with the support of the Army Reserve, which provides critical early entry and set the theater capabilities. These include Petroleum Pipeline and Terminal Operations, Biological Identification Detachments, Broadcast Operation Detachments, Civil Affairs, Theater Engineer Commands, Medical Logistics, and others crucial to opening and sustaining major operations.

Army Reserve Spc. Jason Delgado, 328th Combat Support Hospital, practices lifesaving skills in Manhattan, New York, July, 10, 2018. These Soldiers are part of a national response element that works with civil authorities to provide manpower, vehicles, and equipment to perform medical services as well as chemical, biological, and radiological clean up — essential skills in the event of a disaster or attack. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Felix R. Fimbres)

Army Reserve Spc. Jason Delgado, 328th Combat Support Hospital, practices lifesaving skills in Manhattan, New York, July, 10, 2018. These Soldiers are part of a national response element that works with civil authorities to provide manpower, vehicles, and equipment to perform medical services as well as chemical, biological, and radiological clean up — essential skills in the event of a disaster or attack. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Felix R. Fimbres)

Command authority of the Army Reserve rests under a single individual who is both the Chief of the Army Reserve and the Commanding General of United States Army Reserve Command.

This streamlined command structure ensures unity of command and unity of effort in the resourcing, training, and accessing of the Army Reserve.

This enables support of every Army Service Component Command and worldwide Combatant Command with an Army Reserve footprint in all 50 States, five territories, and 23 countries. The Army Reserve is uniquely designed from the ground up to meet the needs of the Joint Force under this single unified command authority.

The Chief of Army Reserve is the principal advisor on Army Reserve matters to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army. The Office of the Chief of Army Reserve plans, prepares, resources and manages the force and is responsible for the justification, defense, and execution of the Personnel, Operations and Maintenance, and Construction budgets.

At A Glance is a comprehensive introduction to today's U.S. Army Reserve featuring information on capabilities and commands.

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• Logistics
• Civil Affairs
• Military Police
• Medical
• Military Information Support Operations (information operations and cyber operations)
• Postal and Personnel Management
• Public Affairs
• Chemical
• Transportation
• Legal Support
• Chaplain

The Army Reserve is structured to manage specialized capabilities, including those not present anywhere else in the Joint Force, such as: Sustainment capabilities required for major operations, but too expensive to maintain on active duty, such as theater-level transportation, engineer, and logistics units.
• Career fields that are in high demand in the civilian sector, and difficult to retain on active duty, such as medical, legal, engineering and cyber skills.

In addition to a broad spectrum of low-density and high demand enabling units throughout its force, the following commands/capabilities exist only in the Army Reserve: 
• Theater engineer commands
• Civil Affairs commands
• Medical minimal care detachments