Leadership: The Missing Link in Army Reserve Recruiting

This paper will examine the Army organizational recruiting structures of the Army National Guard and the United States Army Recruiting Command USAREC to include a review of the decision criteria used to consolidate the USAR mission within USAREC. The United States Army Recruiting Command USAREC has missed the United States Army Reserve USAR recruiting objective for four years in a row. Based on this trend, Congress has directed the Secretary of the Army conduct a review of the manner, process, and organization used by the Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve. This analysis used against the backdrop of todays recruiting environment and existing organizational structures will provide the basis for determining USARECs inability to meet mission. The focus of comparing organizational structure and Command and Control C2 efficiencies and inefficiencies are used in order to determine the organizational approach that might best suit the United States Army Reserve USAR. Additionally, this paper will identify organizational optionsmeasures, that the Secretary of the Army can use to eliminate this negative trend.