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U.S. Army Reserve celebrates 117th birthday at historic birthplace of the American Revolution

This year, as the Army Reserve marks its 117th birthday, it is honoring its ties to the Army and a legacy of service and sacrifice...

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Army establishes new fitness test of record to strengthen readiness and lethality

The U.S. Army announced today the establishment of the Army Fitness Test (AFT) as the official physical fitness test of record for...

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Pershing Strike tests total Army mobilization capabilities
August 9, 2022 — Pershing Strike kicked off in July as the most sizable, large scale mobilization exercise to date at the historic Camp Shelby in Mississippi... MORE

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers, assigned to the 344th Engineer Company based in Tallahassee, Florida, take cover behind a blast blanket while detonating a linear det charge placed on a door hinge to create an entry point during the Pershing Strike mobilization exercise.

Prepared for the Challenge
August 4, 2021 — As COVID-19 shut the country down, and even the world, the Army kept rolling along. This statement is true at any Army Reserve installation, but more acutely here. As one of the premier Army Reserve training locations, it has been one busy summer, particularly for the 641st Regional Support Group from St. Petersburg, Fla... MORE

A combat medic specialist with the 329th Medical Company from Fairview, Pa performs BinaxNOW testing on a deploying soldier during Pershing Strike 21 at Fort McCoy, Wis.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Native Serves as Member of Fort Bliss Mobilization Brigade
April 12, 2021 — Sgt. Don Jaramillo, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a horizontal construction engineer currently serving at Fort Bliss, Texas with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 647th Regional Support Group (Forward), Fort Bliss Mobilization Brigade, as the training noncommissioned officer. Headquartered in El Paso, Texas, Fort Bliss is the second-largest installation in the Army, serves as a Mobilization Force Generation Installation, and supports the Joint Force by deploying and redeploying service members and Department of Defense civilians and contractors to five combatant commands... MORE

Army Reserve mobilization concept put to test
April 6, 2021 — The Army Reserve’s 38th Regional Support Group conducted annual training here in early March as part of MOBEX’21 to test the base’s viability as a Mobilization Force Generation Installation. “The MFGI concept is in place to support the national defense strategy,” explained Brig. Gen. Barry Edberg, deputy commanding general of the Army Reserve’s 99th Readiness Division and MFGI officer-in-charge. “One of our key elements is to conduct force projection quickly, and we can use that power to leverage or counter moves by any potential adversary.”... MORE

Ambassadors Link Army Reserve Leaders to Soldiers, Families and Communities
August 15, 2018 — The 88th Readiness Division’s Army Reserve Ambassadors Workshop provides an especially valuable venue to bridge the future needs of the Army Reserve and the current needs and concerns of Soldiers, families and communities during this almost historic time of change and progress within the Total Army Team... MORE

Army Reserve Ambassador Workshop, at Fort Snelling, Minn., Aug. 10.

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