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Some of this fits right in with the Army's RAF strategy, sir.
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-do-you-think-of-the-army-s-raf-strategy
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-do-you-think-of-the-army-s-raf-strategy
What do you think of the Army's RAF Strategy? | RallyPoint
Have you heard of this? I read an interesting article about GEN Odierno's Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF) strategy at Foreign Policy. What is your opinion of the RAF strategy? Just the newest hood ornament? The latest "strategy" to maintain the Army's legitimacy? Or is this the real deal? Something that will outlive GEN Odierno's time as Chief of Staff? Please read the article before answering:...
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It absolutely does CW5 (Join to see). I am curious if one of the benefits of this is also cost savings say in places in like korea where we will reduce the number of annual PCSs that occur etc? My initial assumption would be that is would be more expensive.
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I agree with the expense, since most soldiers who PCSd left their families in place incurring very little cost to the Army. I am intrigued at how this decision will fare after a few years of rotations. Truly the South Koreans can handle the peninsula without us; but I fear an Army idle in peace after so many years of war under their belt may prove very problamatic in the short term. Easing the Army back into a peacetime (pseudo) machine may be easier to transition with deployments such as these. It will be the application and the leadership needed to execute that will be the true test of our Army moving forward. Stay tuned and brace yourselves; hopefully the future BN/BDE/DIV CDRs don't turn these into a six or twelve month CTC rotation/sprint; that would be very detrimental to the Army 2025.
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Hard to tell how many in total, but it seems to be a greatly reduced pace from the past several years; a very good thing. I didn't see any mention of Guard and Reserve forces. I do think they should stay in the mix, but also at a greatly reduced pace. There probably is a place of them in rotations of a shorter duration; say six months. If they were to do that every four or five years they would continue to be part of the total force and share a higher state of readiness than is possible in the purely :"traditional reservist" model.
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Sir, that would be one way to keep the Guard and Reserve sharp and to lessen the impact of the rotations for the Active Component.
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COL John McClellan
Several Guard/Reserve units participate in exercises in both EUCOM and PACOM, to include construction projects supporting mil-to-mil training and HADR objectives. Pretty sure NG still have Kosovo, too.
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