Department of Defense Manpower Requirements Report - FY 1990

The Secretary of Defense hereby submits to the Congress the Defense Manpower Requirements Report DMRR for FY 1990 in compliance with Section 115b3 of Title 10, United States Code. This report should be read and used along with the Report of the Secretary of Defense to the Congress on the FY 1990 Budget. The structure of our armed forces is based on the DoD Total Force Policy which recognizes that all elements of the structure contribute to national defense. Those elements include the Active and Reserve Components, civilian workforce, and retired military, host nation support, and DoD contractors. The active component military are those men and women who serve in units that engage enemy forces units that provide support in the combat theater, other support units, and those people who are in special accounts transients, student, etc.. These men and women are on call twenty-four hours a day and receive full-time military pay. There are over 2.1 million active component military people. Reserve component military manpower is divided into three categories the Ready Reserve, the Standby Reserve, and the Retired Reserve. Civilians constitute approximately one-third or 1.1 million of the Departments active manpower. Retired military manpower is a major portion of the Total Force. The Departments policy is to maintain as small an active peacetime force a national security policy, military strategy, and overseas commitments permit. Mobilization manpower is the time-phased increase of manpower needed above our current peacetime strength to mobilize and conduct wartime military operations.