Twice the Citizen; A History of the United States Army Reserve, 1908-1995: Department of the Army Pamphlet 140-14

Washington DC: Office of the Chief, Army Reserve, 1997. Second Revised and Expanded Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xxxiii, [1], 680 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Illustrations. Tables. Select Bibliography. Index. Footnotes. Signed by Currie on title page. Inscribed by Currie on fep facing the title page. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. Colonel James T. Currie is a trained military historian. He had been a college professor. He was the first Historian of the United States Department of Education and the first Associate Historian of the House of Representatives. He was a Professional Staff Member for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He then joined the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Colonel Crossland was an Army Reservist with over 20 years of service in the three Army components. He served in Vietnam. He was a graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff College and worked at the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). During his service he earned the Bronze Star and also received the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster. The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is the federal reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the Army element of the Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces. On 30 June 2016, Lieutenant General Charles D. Luckey became the 33rd Chief of Army Reserve, and Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command (USARC). On 2 November 2012, Command Sergeant Major James Lambert was sworn in as the Interim Command Sergeant Major of the Army Reserve, serving as the Chief of the Army Reserve's senior advisor on all enlisted soldier matters, particularly areas affecting training, leader development, mobilization, employer support, family readiness and support, and quality of life. On 23 April 1908 Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. After World War I, under the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army, a National Guard, and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army Reserve. This organization provided a peacetime pool of trained Reserve officers and enlisted men for use in war. The Organized Reserve included the Officers Reserve Corps, Enlisted Reserve Corps, and Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The Organized Reserves were redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps. Recognizing the importance of the Organized Reserve to the World War II effort, Congress authorized retirement and drill pay for the first time in 1948. Reserve soldiers perform only part-time duties as opposed to full-time (active duty) soldiers, but rotate through mobilizations to full-time duty. When not on active duty, reserve soldiers typically perform training/service one weekend per month, currently referred to as Battle Assembly, and for two continuous weeks at some time during the year referred to as Annual Training (AT). Many reserve soldiers are organized into Army Reserve troop program units (TPU), while others serve in active Army units as Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMA), or are in non-drilling control groups of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). Reserve Soldiers may also serve on active duty in support of the US Army Reserve (USAR) in an Active Guard/Reserve (AGR) status.