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99th READINESS DIVISION

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.

Spc. Robin Trinidad, an automated logistics specialist from the 103rd Quartermaster Company in Houston, Texas, guides a pallet of Meals Ready to Eat on Feb. 17, 2016 at Fort Polk, La. while supporting a field training. The Army Reserve unit is providing Class I supplies during the exercise in partnership with active Army units and foreign service members. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon Hubbard, 204th PAD)

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Spc. Robin Trinidad (right), an automated logistics specialist from the 103rd Quartermaster Company in Houston, inspects a cooler Feb. 17, 2016, at Fort Polk, La., used to preserve perishable foods in the field. The Los Angeles native and his Army Reserve company are supporting field exercises during a base field exercise. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Brandon Hubbard, 204th PAD)

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Staff Sgt. Lowell Blaylock, a native of Ogden, Utah, assigned to the Army Reserve’s 978th Quartermaster Company, participates in a discussion about mailroom operations during facility coordinator training held at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., Feb. 23. The two-day class was designed to help coordinators improve their individual Army Reserve center.

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Christine Ploschke, acting chief, Environmental Division, and Environmental Compliance Branch and Energy Branch manager with the Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, addresses the facility coordinator training class held Feb. 23 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The two-day class was designed to help coordinators improve their individual Army Reserve center. The 99th is offering the training monthly throughout the 13-state region it oversees.

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Maj. Gen. Margaret W. Boor, commanding general for the Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., addresses the facility coordinator training class held at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., Feb. 23. The two-day class was designed to help coordinators improve their individual Army Reserve center.

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Sgt. Shafer Burnett, a trombone player with the Army Reserve's 78th Army Band, practices a Stevie Wonder song with his bandmates during the unit's Battle Assembly Feb. 21 on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.

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Staff Sgt. Charles DePalmo plays bass guitar with the Army Reserve's 78th Army Band, during the unit's Battle Assembly Feb. 21 on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. This drill marked one of the final times DePalmo will be with the band as he is getting ready to retire.

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Staff Sgt. Christina Greenway, a trumpet player with the Army Reserve's 78th Army Band, practices with her bandmates during the unit's Battle Assembly Feb. 21 on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

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Staff Sgt. Alfred Burbage, a tenor saxophonist with the Army Reserve's 78th 78th Army Band, practices with his bandmates during the unit's Battle Assembly Feb. 21 on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. This drill marked one of the final times Burbage will be with the band as he is getting ready to retire

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Lt. Col. Bentio demonstrates the Mission Analysis, Readiness & Resource Synchronization (MARRS) system during a brief to various Army Reserve Soldiers in leadership roles. The MARRS system provides information and has the capacity to leverage Reserve Component Manpower System and other Reserve Component unique data to better facilitate the capabilities of the Army Reserve. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Bethany L. Huff)

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Capt. Brian Jackson, an Army Reserve Engagement Cell Planner for Army South, asks for more information about the Mission Analysis, Readiness & Resource Synchronization (MARRS) during an informational brief with various Army Reserve Soldiers in leadership roles. The Army Reserve currently has the capability to perform a full range of operations, which include disaster response with facilities located in 1,200 communities across the nation. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Bethany L. Huff)

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Capt. Gabrila Benitezlara, the Collective Training Officer in Charge for the 4th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, tests out the new Mission Analysis, Readiness & Resource Synchronization (MARRS) system during an information brief for Army Reserve Soldiers in leadership roles. The MARRS system will help to de-conflict scheduling of units as well as leveraging the remainder of Soldiers within those Reserve units. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Bethany L. Huff)

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Are you looking for fuelers to fulfill vehicle readiness? Do you need a company of military police to conduct convoy security?
In a partnership with the National Guard Bureau, the U.S. Army Reserve is now in the initial stages of adopting the Mission Analysis, Readiness & Resource Synchronization (MARRS) system as a source to assess overall unit readiness.

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Capt. Mathew Young, an overseas deployment training manager at U.S. Army Reserve Command, conducts a training session on the Mission Analysis, Readiness & Resource Synchronization (MARRS) system to various operations personnel from around the Army at Fort Sam Houston, Feb. 22. When a need is required for a specific mission, the requestor is able to search on the MARRS system while inputting certain parameters. The system then pulls all pertinent information from different databases and populates the system with units that fit the mission.

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FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - Lt. Col. Benito E. Rodriguez, the collective training division chief at U.S. Army Reserve Command, conducts a training session on the Mission Analysis, Readiness & Resource Synchronization (MARRS) system to various Army operations personnel from Fort Sam Houston, Feb. 22. When a need is required for a specific mission, the requestor is able to search on the MARRS system while inputting certain parameters. The system then pulls all pertinent information from different databases and identifies units that fit the mission.

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Don Clayton, Vietnam veteran and ride captain with the Patriot Guard Riders, visits the 14th Quartermaster Detachment memorial in Greensburg, Pa., prior to the memorial ceremony held Feb. 25 at the Greensburg Army Reserve Center. The event commemorated the 25th anniversary of the single-most devastating attack on U.S. forces during the Persian Gulf War, when 13 of the detachment’s Soldiers were killed and another 43 were wounded by an Iraqi Scud missile attack.

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Survivor Outreach Services at the Army Reserve's 99th Regional Support Command, headquartered at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., hosted Operation Love Letters Feb. 13 in the Maj. John P. Pryor Army Reserve Center. Operation Love Letters is an annual patriotic celebration of love which takes place every February. Friends and family of fallen Soldiers gather to pay tribute to them. This year's event included candle making.

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Survivor Outreach Services at the Army Reserve's 99th Regional Support Command, headquartered at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., hosted Operation Love Letters Feb. 13 in the Maj. John P. Pryor Army Reserve Center. Operation Love Letters is an annual patriotic celebration of love which takes place every February. Friends and family of fallen Soldiers gather to pay tribute to them. This year's event included candle making.

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Thirteen-year-old Alexis MacDonald writes a message to her uncle during Operation Love Letters. Operation Love Letters is an annual patriotic celebration of love which takes place every February. Friends and family of fallen Soldiers gather to pay tribute to them. Survivor Outreach Services at the Army Reserve's 99th Regional Support Command, headquartered at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., hosted Operation Love Letters Feb. 13 in the Maj. John P. Pryor Army Reserve Center.

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Matt Hann, a 12-year-old at Hammonton Middle School in Hammonton, New Jersey, works on making a candle during Operation Love Letters. Operation Love Letters is an annual patriotic celebration of love which takes place every February. Friends and family of fallen Soldiers gather to pay tribute to them. Survivor Outreach Services at the Army Reserve's 99th Regional Support Command, headquartered at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., hosted Operation Love Letters Feb. 13 in the Maj. John P. Pryor Army Reserve Center.

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