THE FUTURE OF THE ARMY

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APPENDIX B: RECOMMENDATIONS BY RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL Recommendation 38: Congress should authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army to establish a substantial multiyear pilot program in which recruiters from all three components are authorized to recruit individuals into any of the components and receive credit for an enlistee regardless of the component. Congress should specifically authorize the pilot program “notwithstanding any other laws” in order to avoid potential fiscal law concerns. The Army should complete a detailed design for a pilot program within one year after publication of this report and, pending Congressional approval, fully implement the pilot program within one year after completion of the design work. Recommendation 39: Congress should authorize, and the Secretary of the Army direct, the consolidation of marketing functions under the authority of the Army Marketing Research Group (AMRG) to gain unity of effort. The AMRG must employ marketing strategies to achieve recruiting goals of the Army Reserve, Army National Guard, and Regular Army. Recommendation 40: The Army should retain formal leader development activities as a high priority for all uniformed and civilian personnel. Recommendation 42: The Army should conduct an end-toend review of The Army School System and report to Congress within a year of publication of this report on the efficiencies gained by consolidating under-used capacity. The review should take a holistic look at successes and shortfalls from current strategy and ensure consistent naming conventions to minimize confusion. Recommendation 43: The Army should establish true regionalization of the Army’s school system and continue to consolidate the infrastructure where efficiencies can be gained. The Army should acknowledge and explain any unused capacity, and develop a plan to retain or eliminate the unused capacity, ensure the correct balance of infrastructure and capacity to meet the nation’s needs, and take into consideration the ability to regenerate and expand the Army. The Army should complete this plan within a year of publication of this report. Recommendation 44: The Army should immediately implement the entire One Army School System to realize savings sooner. Recommendation 45: The Army should implement the Objective-T methodology for assessing the progression of training readiness and revise readiness reporting using the quantifiable criteria. Recommendation 46: The Army should increase the number of annual rotations for Army National Guard Brigade Combat Teams at combat training centers beginning fiscal year 2017 without decreasing the number of Regular Army Brigade Combat Team rotations. Recommendation 47: The Army should reduce mandatory training prescribed in AR 350-1, Army Training and Leader Development by the following means: • Reducing the number of mandatory training requirements and moving the reduced tasks to local command policy per AR 600-20, Army Command Policy; • Developing a formal process for approving additional mandatory training tasks and reviewing existing mandatory training requirements annually for retention or deletion; • Chartering the Army’s Training General Officer Steering Committee to provide governance for approving all added Army and Combatant Commander mandatory training requirements; • Changing the reserve components’ mandatory training requirements from an annual cycle to a two-year cycle; • Codifying mandatory training requirements with (1) task, condition, and standard; (2) Training and Evaluation Outline and lesson plan; and (3) the means to make this information available through the Army Training Network as the consolidated repository for mandatory training requirements; • Delegating mandatory training exception approval authority to two-star commanders; and • Completing the AR 350-1, Army Training and Leader Development, revision within one year of this report. Recommendation 48: The Army should resource First Army’s Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) positions from the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve at the aggregate manning level provided for each component not later than fiscal year 2017. Recommendation 50: The Army should provide a Predeployment Training Equipment set to Fort Bliss, Texas, for its Mobilization Force Generation Installation role no later than fiscal year 2017. 116 National Commission on the Future of the Army
APPENDIX B: RECOMMENDATIONS BY RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL Recommendation 53: The Secretary of the Army should perform a top-to-bottom review in fiscal year 2017 of the Individual Ready Reserve program to ensure compliance with existing statutes. Recommendation 56: The Secretary of the Army should rescind the February 22, 2006, memo Individual Ready Reserve Transformation. Recommendation 57: Congress, the Department of Defense, and the Army should implement the Commission’s plan (Option Three) for distribution of the Apache fleet. The Commission’s plan maintains twenty-four manned Apache battalions including twenty in the Regular Army equipped with twenty-four aircraft each and four in the Army National Guard equipped with eighteen aircraft each. The plan adds only two Black Hawk battalions to the Army National Guard. The Army should commit to using the four Army National Guard Apache battalions regularly, mobilizing and deploying them in peacetime and war. Recommendation 58: The Army should maintain a forwardstationed Combat Aviation Brigade in Korea. Recommendation 59: The Army should consider increasing flying hours available for peacetime training. Recommendation 60: The Army should implement a more aggressive modernization program for its aviation forces. Recommendation 61: The Secretary of the Army should codify the delegation of authority from the Chief, National Guard Bureau to the Director, Army National Guard in Army regulations for force structure allocation among the states, territories, and the District of Columbia. Recommendation 62: The Secretary of the Army should codify in Army regulations the existing Army National Guard Force Program Review process as the formal way to manage change in the Army National Guard. Recommendation 63: The Army should add representatives from the Army Secretariat and Army Staff to the Army National Guard Force Program Review working groups and boards as observers. ARMY SERVICE COMPONENT COMMANDS Recommendation 10: The Army must assist Combatant Commands and Army Service Component Commands with timely integration of force structure changes into their strategic planning process. Recommendation 11: Combatant Commands and Army Service Component Commands must update all war plans with current and programmed force structure and doctrine and establish a process to ensure routine war plan and Time Phased Force Deployment Data updates at a minimum of once every two years. Recommendation 19: The Army should ensure Combatant Commands (COCOM) and Army Service Component Commands (ASCC) have the ability to provide operational mission command in proportion to the unique mission for each COCOM. The Army should consult closely with COCOM and ASCC commanders to assess the risks entailed in mission command changes and seek to minimize risk where possible when implementing them. National Commission on the Future of the Army 117
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