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USJFCOM commander discusses reserve force issues

Air Force Gen. Lance Smith, commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command, testified before the Commission on National Guard and Reserve Hearing stressing the importance of reserve components.

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By Robert Pursell
USJFCOM Public Affairs

(WASHINGTON – Oct. 5, 2006) -- The commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) testified today before the Commission on National Guard and Reserve Hearing emphasizing the importance of reserve components.

Air Force Gen. Lance Smith spoke before the commission about global force management and USJFCOM's primary goal for individual augmentees; to push notification time out in order to ensure more predictability.

"Joint Forces Command just took over the mission of joint individual augmentee manning and provision on the 1st of October this year and our primary goal is going to be to do the same things with the individual augmentees that we did with units, and that's to push the notifications time out further and further until we think that we can have the kind of training, the kind of predictability, and those things that are necessary for both the active and reserve component," he said.

Smith also said that USJFCOM looks to maintain a mobilization model that will offer reservists better predictability and flexibility to manage their personal and professional lives.

"I do think that it is significantly more important that that predictability is out there for the reserve component because of their family differences, their employee requirements, and alike," he said.

"As the primary force provider, I couldn't even begin to have that role without access, visibility and use of the reserve component," he said. "It has become an integral part of how we supply forces to the combatant commanders in the field.