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handle is hein.crs/govcfyp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Army FY2017 Force Structure Decisions June 21, 2017 The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, P.L. 114-328, authorizes the Army to maintain an endstrength of 1.018 million soldiers, an increase over previous programmed plans to reduce the Army to 980,000 soldiers by the end of FY2018. FY2017 endstrength authorizations are: * Regular Army: 476,000 * Army National Guard (ARNG): 343,000 * U.S. Army Reserve (USAR): 199,000 Given this increase in endstrength, the Army plans to initiate the following force structure decisions (see https://www.army.mil/article/189082/department of the ar my-announces force structure decisions for fiscal-year 2017 for more information). The Army's goal for units deploying on operations is that these units have 100% of their authorized personnel available. This goal is often not achievable due to the Army-level inventory of soldiers-in both grade and military occupational specialty (MOS)Iavailable to be assigned to units. In addition, soldiers assigned to units can become non-deployable and ineligible to participate in operations for a variety of reasons. Some of the more common ones include medical (e.g., illness, injury, pregnancy), conduct (e.g., incarceration, awaiting conduct discharge) or training (e.g., soldiers attending mandatory occupational or leadership or academic training). In order to mitigate at least part of the non-deployable problem, the Army plans to establish Readiness Enhancement Accounts for both the Active (Regular) and Reserve (ARNG and USAR) components. This account is to consist of about 10,000 soldiers allowing the Army Human Resources Command to ensure units are fully manned when deployed. In addition to the Readiness Enhancement Accounts at Army-level, the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is to receive about 1,300 additional soldiers to address manpower shortfalls in initial basic soldier training units and recruiting commands. The Army plans to retain a number of units previously slated for deactivation. These include: * The 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) (Airborne), 25h Infantry Division based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Previous plans called for reducing this unit to a battalion task force-sized unit. * A Combat Aviation Brigade in South Korea. * The 18th Military Police Brigade Headquarters in Europe. * The 206th Military Intelligence Battalion at Ft. Hood, Texas. * The 61t Maintenance Company in South Korea. Create Mew U.,,,s The Army plans to both create new units and convert existing units into new units. These include: * Converting the 2nd IBCT, 3rd Infantry Division at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, into an Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT). * Creating two Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs)Ione in the Active Component and one in the ARNG. * Creating an aviation training brigade at Ft. Hood, Texas. * Creating three Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) battalions each with about 370 soldiers. The Army plans to station these battalions overseas. * Creating a Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) battalion consisting of about 465 soldiers and employing the Avenger system-a Stinger missile-based platform. * Other units to be created and stationed overseas include a field artillery brigade headquarters with an organic brigade support battalion headquarters, a signal company, two forward support companies, a theater movement control element, a petroleum support company, and an ammunition platoon. ,b-,:- -t,, for. Oonr..... Potential considerations for Congress include but are not limited to: Other than establishing Readiness Enhancement Accounts, what measures are being undertaken to reduce soldier non-deployability? .O 'T mppm qq\ p\w gn'a', ggmm a 'S I 11LIANJILiN,

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