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Army Reserve Unit Boosts Morale During Holidays
December 20, 2023 — While most of us are slowing down during this time of the year, that’s not the case at Soto Cano Air Base near Comayagua, Honduras. A detachment of the 909th Human Resources Company is now on ground at the base and busier than ever. Soldiers of the Clackamas, Oregon, and Bothell, Washington-based unit are just beginning their 9-month deployment at the air base in Central America. Their arrival comes just as operations specific to their jobs have ramped up at the camp where they will be providing a very vital service, that of postal... MORE

Soldiers of the 909th HR Co. (Postal) look over several Amazon packages and other mail just arriving into the Soto Cano Post Office mail room on Soto Cano Air Base near Comayagua, Honduras. The unit just kicked off a 9-month deployment providing postal operations at the air base.

Annual symposium bridges gaps across components, commands
December 8, 2023 — Around 40 V Corps, National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve senior leaders converged at “Victory Corps” Headquarters here Dec. 1-2 for a dynamic discussion of issues confronting Reserve Component organizations serving in the Eastern European area of responsibility... MORE

U.S. Army Reserve, National Guard and U.S. Army V Corps senior leaders pose for a photo in front of V Corps Headquarters before the second annual Reserve Component Symposium in Fort Knox, Kentucky, Dec. 2, 2023. The second annual Reserve Component Symposium provided an ideal opportunity for commanders of relevant U.S. Army Reserve formations, state adjutants general, deputies and key staff to discuss challenges, opportunities, lessons-learned, and tactics, techniques and procedures with V Corps and U.S. Army Europe and Africa senior leaders and key advisors. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Javen Owens)

Mobilization mission changes hands at Fort Hood
November 30, 2022 — After mobilizing and demobilizing more than 20,000 U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers and National Guard troops here over the past 12 months, the 642nd Regional Support Group from Decatur, Georgia, cased their unit’s colors and passed on the colors of Mobilization Support Brigade to the command team of the 561st RSG from Omaha, Nebraska, during a ceremony on Sadowski Field, Nov. 18... MORE

Ammunition platoon trains on land navigation
October 28, 2022 — This U.S. Army Reserve Ordnance Company platoon did something here Oct. 21, 2022, that would make several of the Army’s top enlisted leaders, including Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston proud... MORE

Supporting our theaters across the globe: 79th Theater Sustainment Command conducts early entry command post exercise
July 20, 2022 — U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 79th Theater Sustainment Command (TSC) walked a mile in the boots of their partners overseas by participating in an early entry command post (EECP) exercise to practice providing sustainment and logistical support to a theater during their annual training, June 18 to July 2, 2022. The EECP is a rapid response element of the 79th TSC’s theater logistics and sustainment planning that prepares Soldiers to provide sustainment and logistic support in a theater environment... MORE

319th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion trains in simulated remains transportation ceremony
June 23, 2022 — Army Reserve Soldiers of the 319th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion train to carry fallen comrades in a simulated remains transportation ceremony during Combat Support Training Exercise 91-22-01, June 14, 2022, on Fort Hunter Liggett, California... MORE

Army Reserve unit simulate honors transportation ceremony for the deceased

Transportation Soldiers qualify with .50 caliber machine guns
April 14, 2022 — U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from several companies in the 470th Movement Control Battalion, 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, 79th Theater Sustainment Command, Elwood, Illinois, trained on something not every Soldier is able to do at a range here April 9, 2022. They were able to engage targets from as far away as 1,300 yards behind the new Browning M2A1 50-caliber machine gun. Enhancements to the M2 include, a quick-change barrel, a fixed headspace and timing configuration, and flash hider... MORE

Theory of operations studied at Power Generation class
March 7, 2022 — The students in the first Fiscal Year 22’s Logistic Sustainment Training Power Generation class were the first to learn the theory of generators and extensive details on how each piece of equipment of a generator works at the 88th Readiness Division-operated Draw Yard here Feb. 26-March 3, 2022... MORE

After cold January, CWOC students cite Fort McCoy as ideal training location for course
February 16, 2022 — During January 2022 at Fort McCoy, weather data shows 18 of 31 days during the month had overnight temperatures in the below-zero range — one night as cold as minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit. And through those many cold nights, students in the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course (CWOC) were training somewhere on the installation. Many of those students said they soon realized they were in for a challenge and later said that Fort McCoy was an ideal place for the cold-weather training... MORE

Why I serve: ‘I can help guide them in making the right decisions’
October 27, 2021 — U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Marcos L. Benavides is passionate about being there for his Soldiers. “I just want to help them and make sure that they’re set in life or their military career, things I wish somebody had told me when I was younger,” the ammunition specialist said... MORE

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