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Impact of Individual Augmentation Policy on Navy Reserve Force Readiness / BRADLEY MARTIN, MICHAEL NIXON, NATALIA HENRIQUEZ SANCHEZ, COLIN D. SMITH.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Bradley Dean
- Series:
- Research report (Rand Corporation) ; A1889-1
- Report ; A1889-1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy Reserve--Planning.
- United States.
- United States. Navy Reserve--Operational readiness.
- Employee retention--United States.
- Employee retention.
- Deployment (Strategy).
- United States--Armed Forces--Operational readiness.
- United States--Armed Forces--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- United States--Armed Forces--Reserves.
- Military Force Deployment.
- Military Personnel Retention.
- Military Recruitment.
- Naval Warfare.
- Operational Readiness.
- United States Navy.
- Local Subjects:
- Military Force Deployment.
- Military Personnel Retention.
- Military Recruitment.
- Naval Warfare.
- Operational Readiness.
- United States Navy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 59 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2023
- Summary:
- Since the United States began its Middle East campaigns in 2001, the joint force has required the assignment of individual augmentees (IAs) who are U.S. military members (such as those assigned to special duty in a military unit) to fill a shortage or provide particular skills. However, personnel assigned for an IA mission become unavailable for any other mission; also, other risks and opportunity costs might emerge, ranging from possible impacts on recruiting and retention to misalignment between force structure and assigned missions. There is a strong likelihood that other contingencies will arise, putting further demand on force structure. The process for assigning reserve units and IAs relies on Joint Staff requests for forces and Navy-specific processes. These assignments were intended to be a means of dealing with a short-term demand and relied on specific funding that was not intended to be a basis for standard budgeting and programming. It is not completely clear when and where the process for requesting support from IAs made a transition from an understandably abbreviated process for dealing with a crisis to a way of working around force structure management and force generation processes. The authors examine the impact of individual augmentation on the Navy Reserve as it relates to recruiting, retention, individual and unit readiness, and ability to maintain a ratio of time deployed to time at home, specifically in mobilization of forces for duty in operations associated with the Global War on Terror and in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Post-2001 Individual Augmentee Policy
- The Background
- Chapter Two: The Navy Reserve Force Burden After 2011
- Chapter Three: Unit Activations
- Chapter Four: Individual Augmentation: Unit and Personnel Impact
- Chapter Five: Force Structure Shortfalls: Have Use of IAs Hidden a Problem?
- Chapter Six: Conclusions and Recommendations
- Appendix A: Complete List of Units Studied
- Appendix B: Proposed Exit Survey.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF document (title page; viewed September 8, 2023)
- "Prepared for the Chief of Navy Reserve"
- "RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE"
- Includes bibliographical references (page 59)
- Description based on electronic resource
- OCLC:
- 1396743522
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