Population Representation 2004 - Selected Reserve Enlisted Accessions and Enlisted Force

SELECTED RESERVE ENLISTED ACCESSIONS AND ENLISTED FORCE

The Ready Reserve, with an FY 2004 strength of more than 1.1 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 1,132,454
Selected Reserve 851,395¹		Individual Ready Reserve/Inactive National Guard 281,059
Units and Full-Time Support 831,956²	Individual Mobilization Augmentees 19,439
¹Components 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. ²Units include Selected Reserve members in the training pipeline. The Full-Time Support Force (FTS) is primarily a unit support force, the majority of which mobilizes with their units. The number of reservists in Units is 789,659 the number in FTS is 66,016 (Active Guard and Reserve). Source: Department of Defense, Official Guard and Reserve Manpower Strengths and Statistics: FY 2004 Summary (RCS: DD-RA[M]1147/1148)(Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Affairs], 2004), Report A0, p. 1.005.

Figure 5.1. FY 2004 composition of the Selected Reserve within the Ready Reserve.

Of the 851,395 Selected Reserve members, 724,338 are enlisted, 117,103 are officers and the remaining 9,954 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. [Footnote 1] 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 2004 Summary (RCS: DD-RA[M]1147/1148)(Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Affairs], 2004), Report A0, p. 1.005. [back to paragraph]

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