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ARMEDCOM: changing lives; building readiness
July 5, 2017
Local resident Benita Alvarado receives much-needed optometry care from Army Reserve medical professionals providing support at Larga Vista Community Center in Laredo, Texas. Alvarado is one of nearly 5,000 patients who received medical support during the two week mission supporting Webb County’s under-served Colonias population. Services provided by Army Reserve personnel are done through the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training, a civil-military program that builds mutually beneficial partnerships between U.S. communities and the DoD. The missions selected meet training and readiness requirements for Army Reserve service members while integrating them as a joint and whole-of-society team to serve our American citizens.
Signal Soldiers Return from Successful Deployment
June 29, 2017
Capt. Latisha Collier, a mobilization readiness officer assigned to the 335th Signal Command (Theater) gives a warm welcome home hug to Maj. Frank Trinidad, deputy J6, Detachment 1, 335th SC (T) at the Killeen Regional Airport, Killeen,Texas June 28. Trinidad and 11 other Soldiers returned from a nine-month deployment where their mission was providing communications support to a special operations joint task force, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. (Official U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent C. Powell)
Family, faith power Army Reserve chaplain
June 26, 2017
Chap. (Maj.) Timothy Elliott, Strong Bonds program manager for the U.S. Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, addresses couples during a 99th Regional Support Command Strong Bonds event Jan. 27-29 in Baltimore, Maryland. Strong Bonds is a unit-based, chaplain-led program which assists commanders in building individual resiliency by strengthening the Army Family. The core mission of the Strong Bonds program is to increase individual Soldier and Family member readiness through relationship education and skills training.
Clean Water: An Essential Element of a Successful Army
June 22, 2017
(Left to right) Sgt. Monika MacDonald and Private 1st Class Miguel Arroyo, members of the 753rd Quartermaster Company water purification team, drain the cyclone separator as they shut down operations at the Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit Rodeo at Fort Story, Virginia, June 15, 2017.
Military police keep pounding through change of mission and mindset
June 21, 2017
Pvt. Fabian Harper, of Moline, Illinois, a U.S. Army Reserve military police gunner from the 339th Military Police Company (Combat Support), headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, is covered in dust from a morning convoy operation at a Warrior Exercise (WAREX) held at Fort Hunter Liggett, California, June 20. The MP company's Soldiers had to relocate their tactical assembly areas in the field multiple times as they reconnoitered different areas of their operational environment, while fighting against temperatures reaching 100-plus degrees daily. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
'A little friendly competition never hurts'
June 2, 2017
Lt. Col. Felix Torres, chief of resource management at the U.S. Army Reserve Command, runs to a land navigation point during an urban-orienteering event at Fort Bragg, N.C., June 2, 2017. The event was designed to promote individual and unit readiness by ensuring everybody stays physically fit, enhance team cohesion and improve spirit de corps. Orienteering is a competitive form of land navigation. It combines map reading, terrain study, strategy, competition and exercise. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Stephanie Ramirez)
Army Reserve commanding general visits Soldiers in Canada
May 22, 2017
Lt. Gen. Charles Luckey, chief of Army Reserve and commanding general of United States Army Reserve Command, discusses troop movements with Canadian Lt. Col. Will Graydon, commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, on May 18, 2017, in Camp Wainwright, Alberta, Canada, during Maple Resolve 17. More than 650 U.S. Army Soldiers are supporting Maple Resolve 17, the Canadian Army’s premiere brigade-level validation exercise running May 14-29 at Camp Wainwright. As part of the exercise, the U.S. Army is providing a wide array of combat and support elements. These include sustainment, psychological operations, public affairs, aviation and medical units. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Crawford)
Army Reserve Soldiers mobilize to train and equip a ready force
April 4, 2017
Army Reserve Sgt. Mindy Baptist, observer coach/trainer assigned to the 3/335th Training Support Battalion, based out of Fort Sheridan, Illinois, stretches out after morning battalion physical training exercise. Baptist is on her first mobilization in 11 years of service. The 3/335th TSBn, operationally controlled by First Army, recently began a one-year mobilization to train and equip Army Reserve and National Guard units ahead of overseas deployments to remain effective as the most capable, combat ready and lethal Federal Reserve force in the history of the nation. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Aaron Berogan)
Army Reserve command kicks off new readiness improvement program
March 8, 2017
Sgt. 1st Class Miranda Toussaint, a finance instructor with the U.S. Army Reserve’s 8th Battalion, 98th Regiment, has her blood pressure checked by Lisa Walls, event oversight administrator with Logistics Health Incorporated, during the 99th Regional Support Command’s Soldier Readiness Improvement Event March 4 at the Frank B. Lotts Center in Richmond, Virginia. This event was the first in the 99th RSC’s new Soldier Readiness Improvement Initiative, which offers unit commanders a one-stop shop for personnel and medical readiness that helps make Soldiers mission capable.
Army Reserve Soldiers learn to connect and reconnect at Strong Bonds event
February 1, 2017
Couples hold hands during an exercise Jan. 27 as part of a 99th Regional Support Command Strong Bonds event in Baltimore, Maryland. Strong Bonds is a unit-based, chaplain-led program which assists commanders in building individual resiliency by strengthening the Army Family. The core mission of the Strong Bonds program is to increase individual Soldier and Family member readiness through relationship education and skills training.