Accession Number:

AD1183691

Title:

National Guard: Peacetime Training Did Not Adequately Prepare Combat Brigades for Gulf War

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Technical Report]

Corporate Author:

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Davis, Richard

Report Date:

1991-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

60

Abstract:

This report discusses the training and preparedness of the three Army National Guard roundout brigades that were activated during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. We made this review primarily to determine whether the brigades had been adequately trained during peacetime to do their wartime jobs. The report contains recommendations to you to take a number of specific actions to improve 1 peacetime training, 2 the reliability of training evaluations, and 3 reservists medical condition.

Descriptors:

• personnel management
• doctrine
• army personnel
• artillery
• combat readiness
• health services
• medical personnel
• military science
• warfare
• law
• leadership training
• army training
• computers
• control systems
• department of defense
• deployment
• logistics

Subject Categories:

• Military Forces and Organizations
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]