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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.
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