Population Representation 2004 - Selected Reserve Officer Accessions and Officer Corps

SELECTED RESERVE OFFICER ACCESSIONS AND OFFICER CORPS

Representation Within Occupations. The distribution of officers across occupational areas is shown in Table 6.8 for Active and Reserve Components. Overall, the largest proportions of officers in the Reserve and Active Components are assigned to tactical operations and health care positions (54 percent, respectively). However, due to assigned missions, the Reserve Components have a smaller proportion than the Active Components in tactical operations (33 and 36 percent, respectively), but a greater proportion of officers in health care (21 and 17 percent, respectively).

Table 6.8. FY 2004 Occupational Areas of Active and Selected Reserve Officer Corps (Percent)
Occupational Area	Active Components*	Reserve Components**
General Officers and Executives	0.4	0.5
Tactical Operations	36.3	32.7
Intelligence	5.2	5.7
Engineering and Maintenance	12.6	10.2
Scientists and Professionals	5.7	7.1
Health Care	17.4	21.0
Administration	6.1	7.4
Supply, Procurement, and Allied Occupations	9.1	9.7
Non-Occupational***	7.3	5.6
Total	100.0	100.0
Columns may not add to total due to rounding. * Active Components calculations do not include 6 male Army, 1 male Navy, 619 male and 21 female Marine Corps, and 372 male and 23 female Air Force O-6 officers classified as general officers by the Services. Reserve Components calculations do not include 719 male and 28 female O-6 officers classified as general or executive officers by the Services (1 male ARNG; 1 male USAR; 316 male, 17 female USMCR; 214 male, 6 female ANG; 187 male, 5 female USAFR). *Non-occupational includes patients, students, those with unassigned duties, and unknowns. Also see Appendix Tables B-37 (Occupational Area by Service and Gender) and C-31 (Occupational Area by Component).

Differences in occupational assignment among the Reserve Components are shown in Table 6.9. With the exception of the USAR, the largest proportion of officers in each component is in tactical operations. Among the Reserve components, the ARNG and USMCR have the greatest proportions of officers in tactical operations (44 and 58 percent, respectively). The USAR has the smallest proportion of officers in tactical operations (18 percent).

Table 6.9. Comparison of FY 2004 Occupational Area Distribution of Officers, by Active and Reserve Component (Percent)
Active and Reserve Components	Occupational Area*
Active and Reserve Components	0**	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
ARMY Active Component Army National Guard Army Reserve	0.5 0.6 0.3	34.4 43.7 17.5	6.2 3.7 5.1	13.1 8.6 9.1	7.0 3.4 11.9	20.4 10.3 32.8	7.0 5.8 8.7	10.4 10.1 13.1	1.0 13.8 1.5
NAVY Active Component Naval Reserve	0.4 0.3	39.4 39.5	4.2 11.4	10.1 10.9	4.1 4.2	20.5 19.3	3.3 6.2	6.3 6.5	11.7 1.8
MARINE CORPS Active Component USMC Reserve	0.5 0.3	51.3 57.7	5.2 5.9	8.5 7.6	2.8 6.4	0.0 0.0	6.2 6.6	13.5 14.1	12.1 1.4
AIR FORCE Active Component Air National Guard USAF Reserve	0.4 1.1 0.5	32.5 37.3 30.6	4.9 3.1 7.0	14.9 14.1 12.0	6.2 4.6 8.6	16.1 15.4 24.7	7.2 9.7 6.8	8.9 5.8 7.6	9.0 9.0 2.2
Rows may not add to total due to rounding. * Occupational Area Codes: 0=General Officers, 1=Tactical Operations, 2=Intelligence, 3=Engineering and Maintenance, 4=Scientists and Professionals, 5=Health Care, 6=Administration, 7=Supply, Procurement, and Allied, 8=Non-occupational. ** Reserve Components calculations do not include 747 O-6 officers classified as general or executive officers by the Services (1 ARNG, 1 USAR, 333 USMCR, 220 ANG, and 192 USAFR). Also see Appendix Tables B-37 (Occupational Area by Service and Gender) and C-30 (Occupational Area by Component).

Many Selected Reserve officers are health care professionals. The USAR and USAFR have the greatest proportion of officers in health care occupations (33 and 25 percent, respectively). Health care comprises the second largest percentage of officers in the USAFR, ANG and USNR (25, 15 and 19 percent, respectively). Relatively few Reserve officers are in intelligence, science and professional, and administrative occupations.

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