Chapter 5 - Active Component Officers

The Ready Reserve, with an FY 2001 strength of more than 1.2 million, is the major source of manpower augmentation for the Active force. As illustrated in Figure 5.1, the two principal elements of the Ready Reserve are the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve. Reserve Component data in this report include only the Selected Reserve.

Ready Reserve 1,211,264
Selected Reserve 867,422¹			Individual Ready Reserve/Inactive National Guard 343,842
Units and Full-Time Support 847,849		Individual Mobilization Augmentees 19,528
Units² 722,750	Full-Time Support³125,144

1 Components within the Selected Reserve include the Army National Guard (ARNG), Army Reserve (USAR), Naval Reserve (USNR), Air National Guard (ANG), Air Force Reserve (USAFR), and Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR).
Coast Guard Reserve is excluded.
² Includes Selected Reserve members in the training pipeline.
³ Includes Active/Guard Reserve (AGR) and military technicians, excluding competitive civil service technicians not having mobilization assignments in the ARNG and ANG.
Source: Department of Defense, Official Guard and Reserve Manpower Strengths and Statistics: FY 2001 Summary (RCS: DD-RA[M]1147/1148) (Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Affairs], 2001), Report A0, p. 1.005.

Figure 5.1. FY 2001 composition of the Selected Reserve within the Ready Reserve.

Of the 867,422 Selected Reserve members, 736,642 are enlisted, 119,803 are officers and the remaining 10,977 are Warrant Officers. The Selected Reserve includes three types of personnel: (1) those trained in units (including full-time support personnel) who are organized, equipped, and trained to perform wartime missions; (2) trained individuals (Individual Mobilization Augmentees [IMAs]) who provide wartime augmentation on or shortly after mobilization; and (3) those in the training pipeline.[Footnote1] Reservists and Guardsmen in the training pipeline may not deploy. Selected Reservists assigned to units and some IMAs train throughout the year. Selected Reserve units may be either operational or augmentation units. Operational units train and deploy as units; augmentation units train as units in peacetime, but are absorbed into Active Component units upon mobilization.

[Footnote 1] Department of Defense, Official Guard and Reserve Manpower Strengths and Statistics: FY 2001 Summary (RCS: DD-RA[M]1147/1148) (Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Affairs], 2001), Report AO, p. 1.005. [back to paragraph]