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FPCD-79-18 1 (1979-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaayri0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GZNERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE I O1b49 ____ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND COMPENSATION DIVISION B-152420 FEBRUARY 26,1979 The Honorable Harold Bro n The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: We are currently reviewing the Reserve technician program and have identified an aspect which we believe warrants your immediate attention. The Army's technician program is not fully achieving its objectives because about 46 percent of the Army Reserve dual-status technicians (military reservists who are also civilian employees of the Reserves) cannot be mobilized with their Reserve units. The objectives of the technician program are to provide a nucleus of trained personnel to provide continuity in the management and administration of the Army and Air Force Selected Reserve units and to increase the mobilization readiness of those Reserve components. Currently, the mobi- lization objective cannot be fully achieved because, in the Army Reserve, 26 percent of the dual-status technicians are assigned to military positions in units other than the one in which they are employed and an additional 20 percent of technicians are not qualified to hold military positions. Clearly, these situations impair the Army Reserve's mobility readiness. Legislation is needed to achieve program objec- tives by preventing a person from holding a job as a tech- nician when he or she is not a member of the Reserve unit in which the position is authorized. BACKGROUND OF THE TECHNICIAN PROGRAM The National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 sets forth the conditions for dual-status employment in the National Guard. The statute specifically mandated that military membership was a condition of technician employment and liii FPCD-79-18 (963103) 108664 003823 yP

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