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Archive: 2020

Enduring priorities drive First Army
January 28, 2020 — During the first World War, General of the Armies John J. Pershing noted that the United States Army no longer differentiated between its active and reserve component forces. He famously said, “Our purpose is to think only of the American citizen and to prepare him for the duties of war.”... MORE

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers case their colors, prepare for deployment
January 27, 2020 — U.S. Army Reserve members of the 211th Regional Support Group (RSG) assembled, here, on Jan. 25, 2020, for a mobilization deployment ceremony in support of Operation Enduring Freedom... MORE

From the desert to the cockpit: Army Reserve aviator shares her story
January 27, 2020 — U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Leyla Zeinalpour, Commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 364th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), is the first in her family to join the military. Zeinalpour shares her story as an Army Reserve Soldier, Apache and Blackhawk pilot, and the values of hard work, teamwork, staying focused and always doing the right thing whether in or out of uniform... MORE

Sleep well: 652nd RSG provides a better place to sleep for Polish people in need
January 24, 2020 — Sgt. Minkyu Kim has been coordinating the movement of more than 100 new mattress and bed frames onto Powidz Air Base, in Powidz, Poland, and many more old mattresses to a storage facility on base. The new mattresses provided a more comfortable bed for Soldiers on base, and the old ones provided the same for some of Poland’s citizens in need... MORE

7th MSC Chaplain trailblazes candidate program in Europe
January 24, 2020 — Across Army ranks in the United States, the Chaplain Candidate Program helps U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers train to become an Army Chaplain while simultaneously training for the ministry. But the program never existed in Europe, until recently... MORE

Newly appointed U.S. Army Reserve Chaplain (1st Lt.) Gabriel Pech, 7th Mission Support Command, receives the Army Chaplain cross from his wife, Hannah, while the U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains, Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Thomas L. Solhjem looks on, during a pinning ceremony held at the Daenner Kaserne Chapel in Kaiserslautern, Germany on January 22, 2020. Pech was the first U.S. Army Reserve officer to complete the Chaplain Candidate Program in Europe.

100th Training Division Soldiers win Army Reserve Instructor of the Year 2020
January 23, 2020 — For the second time, Army Reserve Headquarters-Fort Bragg has named two U.S. Army Reserve instructors from the 100th Training Division-Leader Development, under the 80th Training Command (TASS), as its Instructors of the Year. The last time was in 2015... MORE

Master Sgt. Ericka Tew, with the 83rd Army Reserve Readiness Training Center, 100th Training Division-Leader Development, teaches a class at the 80th Training Command (TASS) Instructor of the Year Competition at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Oct. 24, 2019. Tew was awarded the Noncommissioned Officer Army Reserve IOY for Fiscal Year 2020.

Thomas named reserve component Career Counselor of the Year
January 23, 2020 — Sgt. 1st Class Joey Thomas, an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) career counselor, was one of two chosen to be named Army Career Counselor of the Year at a recent ceremony in Washington, D.C... MORE

Thomas selected as top reserve component Career Counselor

Meet the U.S. Army Reserve mayors at Zagan base camp in Poland
January 21, 2020 — Putting the right people in the right positions to succeed is a key part of building a good team. At the Zagan mayor cell, responsible for providing basic life-sustaining services for U.S. Soldiers and their allies at Zagan base camp, Capt. Matthew Paulhus of the 652nd Regional Support Group feels he has done just that... MORE

U.S. Army Reserve Soldier competes in Army's American Skeet Team
January 21, 2020 — Growing up in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, Sgt. 1st Class Brian Stoa, a member of the All-Army Sports Team and Army’s American Skeet Team, enjoyed hunting, shooting and the outdoors. He became avid in shooting competitively in American trap, American skeet and sporting clays... MORE

Army Reserve Soldier honors trailblazer at Martin Luther King event
January 20, 2020 — New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way and the New Jersey Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission hosted the state’s annual tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 19 at the N.J. State Museum Auditorium here... MORE

Maj. Lakisha Hale-Earle, chief of G1 plans and training for U.S. Army Reserve’s 99th Readiness Division (right), pays tribute to former Sgt. Hilda P. Griggs, who served in the Second World War’s 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (left), during New Jersey’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration Jan. 19 at the N.J. State Museum Auditorium in Trenton. The 6888th was the first-and-only all-African American, all-female unit to deploy overseas during the war. It consisted of 855 women under the command of Lt. Charity Adams, the first African-American woman commissioned in the Women’s Army Corps. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Sal Ottaviano)

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