Managing, Mobilizing and Training the Individual Ready Reserve

Upon mobilization soldiers of the Individual Ready Reserve IRR have the critical role to act as fillers for vacancies in the active force, mobilized ready reserve, and as casualty replacements. The IRR, today however, is not managed, mobilized or trained to accomplish these mobilization missions as rapidly as required. This study examines various aspects of IRR management, mobilization, and training with the goal of identifying cost effective, yet efficient means to provide qualified IRR personnel as soon after mobilization as possible. The study concludes that ARPERCENs automated data processing system must be upgraded to adequately manage the IRR, to include assigning IRR assets to meet the critical casualty replacement mission. However, assignment of IRRs must not occur until after MOSQ verification. MOSQ testing during IRR annual screening is the recommended solution, but if this is not possible IRRs must report for evaluationtraining at a training installation before further assignment. Further, the 25 of the IRRs who will be reclassified into critical run-out MOSs must be identified prior to mobilization so that they may be trained prior to mobilization or enter training immediately upon mobilization. It is also recommended that mobilization ARPRINTs be modified to reflect the refresherreclassification training of the IRR and that TRADOC program assets to accomplish this high priority training requirement.