Activation of new aaa units - Air Defense Artillery

Army Establishes Reserves' Inactive Training
Pay System
Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall has announced
the method by which the Army will distribute $12,000,000
in inactive duty training pay to officers and enlisted men
of the Organized Reserve Corps, based upon a system of
priorities giving preference to Reserve units which will be
part of the IS-Division Army planned to be built up during
the coming year.
Reserve personnel in units supporting the IS-Division
.-\rmvtotal some 314,000 officersand men, and with a view
of utilizing the limited funds available for 1949 to the best
advantage, the Department of the Army, as the first step
established training categories for the types of units concerned.
These training categories are relative and reflect the
minimum amount of training each type unit should receive
each year to bring it to a minimum standard acceptable for
D-Dav readiness.
Tr~ining Category I includes units requiring the maximum
amount of training yearly which for the Reserve Components
is set at 4S drills with at least 15 days active field
training. Training Category II requires 24 drills per year;
Category III, 12 drills per year; and Category IV, 4 drills
per year. A fifth training category is established which includes
highly specialized units requiring a minimum of
military training. Training Category I units will be mainly
combat support units, such as a tank battalion which obviously
requires maximum preparation for combat. Only
units which are authorized to have full complements of
officersand enlisted men will be placed in this first category.
Pay priorities are based upon the training categories thus
established.
First priority will be given to some 35,000 Reservists
who are members of units in Category I, and require 4S
drills per year in addition to field training. In the case of
these organizations, the Army will reserve sufficient funds
to insure their maximum training for the coming year. .
Second priority for pay will be given to the Reserve units
of the IS-Division Army which fall in Categories II, III
and IV since it was desired to bring along all the units of
th~e categories on a pay basis regardless of the number of
dnlls per year established as a minimum for D-Day service.
.Funds which may be available beyond this point will be
utIlizedfor other reservists, on the following priority basis:
Third priority: Individuals having Department of the
Armymobilization assignments and necessary filler replacements
for the IS-Diyision Armv.
Fourth priority: Reserve units which require 24, 12 or
f~r training periods per year to perform their assigned
mISsions,but \,:hich are not part of the I8-Division Army.
Fifth priority: All reservists not included in the above
schedule.
Selection of existing Reserve units by type requiring the
various degrees of training has been made by the Department
of the Army and sent to the Commanders of the
Army Areas in the United States and our possessions. The
Area commanders will make a survey of such units in their
areas, considering factors such as geographical location of
population centers, facilities available for each unit, availability
of ORC personnel ip. the region, and the state of
each unit's present organization-and -training. On the basis
of this suryey, they will recommend the specific units which
they believe should be incorporated in the IS-Division
Army, subject to approval by the Department of the Army.
As it is planned that the IS-Division Army, the "mobile
striking force" which will be built up before the end of
June, 1949, will be merely an initial, minimum-strength
D-Day force to be achieved in that period, and will be the
forerunner of a 25-Division Army which will more nearly
meet national security requirements, instructions to the
Army Commanders emphasize the importance of training
by all Reserve units, no matter "whattheir category. In this
connection, the Army is carrying forward the work of
abolishing present "composite groups" in the Reservesmade
up of personnel \'\'ho have no definite training assignments.
These Reservists are being placed in training organizations
designed to fit them for future Army needs.
Some of the Reserve units which will be affected bv the
designation of the new training categories are Affiliated
Units, that is, organizations such as raihvay operating battalions,
laboratory units, engineer, signal and quartermaster
units, etc., which are sponsored by civilian business organizations.
In these cases, affiliation agreements signed by the
Army and the sponsoring agency may indicate willingness
on the part of the sponsor to hold a greater number of drills
than the number authorized in the new training category.
Ho\vever, payment for drills \,:ithin the available funds
would be up to the number established by the new training
category. Should the affiliation agreement for a particular
unit indicate a lesser number of drills than that now authorized,
payment \vill be based on drills accomplished In excess
of the agreed-upon number, up to the maximum authorized
for the new training category.
Under the above policy based on degree of unit readiness
for serl.'ice, it is apparent that many Reserve units,
such as those in the fourth priority which are highly important
in the oyer-all Reserve Program, will not receive
inactive duty pay during this fiscal year.