CACO Conference 2006

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LTG H Steven BlumChief of the National Guard
Bureau

• CACO Conference 2006

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Sec Army, CSA/CNGB Agreed Upon Principles

• The Army National Guard will retain 106 brigades,
  the same number that it has today.
• The Guard will continue to transform from a
  strategic reserve to an operational force by
  continuing to rebalance combat, combat support
  and combat service support units.
• The Guard will continue transforming and
  rebalancing to ensure that the Guard has the
  right capabilities and right force mix to
  simultaneously perform operational missions
  across the full spectrum of military operations
  from military support to civil authorities and
  support to homeland security to homeland defense
  at home and OCONUS.

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SecArmy, CSA/CNGB Agreed Upon Principles (2)

• All 106 ARNG brigades will be organized in the
  modular configuration exactly like the AC
  brigades and, the Army leadership, SA/CSA/VCSA
  are committed to
• Manning the ARNG to the same level as AC units.
• 100 fully manned with an authorized and funded
  over strength.
• ARNG full time manning to be increased to a level
  commensurate with an operational force.
• Equipping the ARNG exactly like the Active
  Component.
• Fully funding the ARNG as an operational force.
• ARNG funded to required strength.
• Transformation, rebalancing and proper resourcing
  will ensure the capabilities of the ARNG are
  immediately available to both the Governors and
  the President for operational employment.
• The Guard supports the Armys decision to retain
  its 106 brigades and the Armys commitment to
  equip these modular formations and to fund to the
  Army Guards achieved end strength.

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DOD/Army Policy
Secretary Rumsfeld 7 Feb 06 SASC Testimony  The
new concept of fully funded, fully manned and
fully equipped Guard brigadesparticularly the
support units, is a development that state and
local officials should welcome. By any measure,
they will be a vast improvement over the
undermanned and under equipped Guard and Reserve
units of the past decade.
Gen Schoomaker 2 Feb 06 DOD News Conference We
have every intention of building active, Guard
and Reserve units that are fully manned, trained,
equipped and led to perform the most likely
missions that we will face in the 21st century
operating environment.   Gen Schoomaker 7 Feb
06 SASC Testimony We are balancing the active
component and reserve component. This notion that
we are cutting the National Guard and Reserves is
false. We are maintaining the end strength of
the National Guard and we're maintaining the end
strength of the Reserves, but we are rebalancing
them both, just like we're rebalancing the Army,
to do things that are more useful, having the
better capability for the kinds of things that
we're moving toward.
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Army ARNG FSA End Strength Agreement Feb 06
P3/4
P1
P1
Operational Force
Operational Force
Strategic Reserve
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Army ARNG FSA End Strength Agreement Feb 06

• OPTEMPO
• F-T Support
• Equipment

Over-Structure
Auth TTHS-like Structure
38K
8K
350K
350K
342K
350K
MTOE/TDA
FS ES
FS ES
ES 350K
FSA 342K
FSA 388K
ES 350K
Operational Force
Strategic Reserve
P1 17.3B Pres Bud is 14.1B 3.2B UFR
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Funding Ramifications
PDM III Jan 06

• PDM III reduced ARNG 5.3B FY07-11
• 789M in FY07
• Cut BCTs from 34 to 28
• Cut End Strength from 350K to 333K
• Cut FTS Ramp
• 906 AGRs
• 1,777 Military Technicians

• Restoral of FY07 reductions will require
• 189M NGPA
• 220M OMNG
• 62M DHP
• 318M Procurement
• 789M Total

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Cost of War
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ANG Re-vector

• Where we were
• Structure 89 Flying units with 1124 manned
  aircraft 335 GSUs
• End Strength 106,000
• What BRAC/QDR 2006/FTAF says
• Structure 72 Flying units, with 961 manned
  aircraft 3 with unmanned aircraft GSU number
  remains unchanged at 335
• BRAC/QDR/FTAF End Strength 106,000
• PDMIII PBD 720 end strength 92,400

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Budget Realities

• Equipment
• Insufficient on hand, more in the program but
  still not enough, and very substantial UFRs
• Schools Training
• Not enough seats, not enough quotas, not enough
  money in the program
• MILCON
• Not enough in the program
• ARNG FSA 1.33B (equipment) not in POM
• ANG New Missions 2.5B not funded
• Readiness
• Unready force until resourced