Providing Essential Capabilities

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• Providing Essential Capabilities
• for Defense of our Homeland
• Lieutenant General H Steven Blum
• Chief, National Guard Bureau

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Sep 11, 2001A New Operational Force
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Transformation Imperatives
Minuteman values and missions transcend time
Federal Role Strategic Reserve (1903-2001),
but is since transforming
1903 (Dick Act)
2001
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Constitutional Militia Operational Force (since
1636)
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National Guard Bureau
New Relationships
SECDEF
CJCS
OSD
Combatant Commanders
Joint Staff
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NG Response to National Commitments
JAN 07 SNAPSHOT ARNG End Strength 347,000 ANG
End Strength 105,900 TOTAL End Strength
452,900 TOTAL Engaged in GWOT 40,000
JAN 07 SNAPSHOT ARNG 5,600 ANG 950 TOTAL
6,550
JAN 07 SNAPSHOT Total Available 406,350
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Continuum of Operations
Theater Security Cooperation
Missile Defense/ Air Sovereignty
1 Win decisively in one region
2 Swiftly defeat efforts in two regions
4 Deter forward in four critical regions
Governor Equities
1 Defense of the Homeland
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Army Air National Guard Core Capabilities

• ESSENTIAL 10
• Joint Force Headquarters (State)
• Civil Support Teams
• Maintenance
• Aviation
• Engineer (Technical Search Rescue)
• Medical (Mass Decon)
• Communications
• Transportation
• Security
• Logistics

25 Enhanced Pool
Intensive Training Getting Ready
50 - Homeland Defense -
Homeland Security - National
Response Plan - All Hazards Plans
25 Mobilized Deployed Forces
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5 Years Later
September 2001
Today
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12/17
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39/72
42/55
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Essential for Building Coalition Partnership
Capacity
PACOM - 4 Alaska / Mongolia Hawaii/Guam /
Philippines Washington / Thailand Hawaii/Indonesia

EUCOM - 26 Alabama / Romania California /
Ukraine California/ Nigeria Colorado /
Slovenia Georgia / Georgia Illinois /
Poland Indiana / Slovakia Kansas /
Armenia Maine/Montenegro Maryland /
Estonia Maryland / Bosnia Michigan /
Latvia Minnesota / Croatia New Jersey /
Albania New York / South Africa North Carolina /
Moldova North Dakota / Ghana Ohio /
Hungary Ohio/Serbia Oklahoma /
Azerbaijan Pennsylvania / Lithuania Tennessee /
Bulgaria Texas/Neb / Czech Republic Utah /
Morocco Vermont / Macedonia Wyoming / Tunisia
CENTCOM - 6 Arizona / Kazakhstan Colorado /
Jordan Louisiana / Uzbekistan Montana /
Kyrgyzstan Nevada / Turkmenistan Virginia /
Tajikistan
SOUTHCOM - 25 Arkansas / Guatemala Connecticut /
Uruguay Delaware / Trinidad-Tobago District of
Columbia / Jamaica Florida / Venezuela Florida /
Guyana Florida/ Eastern Caribbean Kentucky /
Ecuador Louisiana / Belize Massachusetts /
Paraguay Mississippi / Bolivia Missouri /
Panama New Hampshire / El Salvador Puerto Rico /
Honduras Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic Rhode
Island / Bahamas South Dakota/ Suriname West
Virginia / Peru Wisconsin / Nicaragua
Bilateral Iowa / Russia Minnesota / Norway Oregon
/ Austria

TOTALS Partnerships 55 Bilateral
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Essential to the War Fight
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Essential toHomeland Defense
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Essential toHomeland Security
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Essential toEmergency Response
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Essential toDomestic Missions
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Resources for ReadinessUnfunded Requirements
needed to bring the National Guard Equipment
On-hand, OM, Personnel to a 90 Level of
Readiness over the FYDP
Army National Guard
Air National Guard
TOTAL UNFUNDED 24.0 B
TOTAL UNFUNDED 13.8 B
Remain a credible strategic deterrent to any
adversary while simultaneously remaining an
operational force available to POTUS for GWOT and
to Governors for Homeland Defense and support to
Homeland Security
The Presidents Budget meets the Nations needs.
If additional funds were to be made available,
strategic risk would be further reduced.
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Equipment Readiness Shortfall

• 88 of the ARNG and 45 of the ANG here in the
  United States are not ready due to lack of
  equipment.

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Our NationsFuture Defense Challenges
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Integrate and Leverage Army Air National Guard?
Tough National Choices
Full Time Soldier/Airmen
National Guardsmen
Note Based on USAF analysis of DOD, Service and
National Guard accounting records and briefed by
Maj Gen Ron Bath, Office of the CSAF/SECAF
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Transformational Reform
Title 32
SAD
T10
Title 10 / 32 War Fight
(1947) National Security Act
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• Ready
• Reliable
• Essential
• Accessible

. . . Offering uniquely American solutionsto the
complex security challenges our nation faces both
at home and abroad.
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Dual Status/Dual MissionAchieving Full Spectrum
Balance
Current T10 Focus
Army Air National Guard
Title 10 Federal Reserve
Title 32 State Militia
Reform Issue
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National Guard Bureau
Illustrates current formal roles, relationships
and resource processes for manning, training and
equipping the Army and Air National Guard to meet
Title 10 war fight mission requirements.
Does not address current informal roles,
relationships and resource processes required to
conduct essential Title 10, joint, non-war fight,
homeland defense, homeland security, State and
domestic missions.
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Goldwater-Nichols 1986

• The NGB was not recognized as the Joint Bureau it
  had been since 1958, nor accorded corresponding
  joint duty credit, joint duty assignment, joint
  education and joint personnel management status.
• Formal joint roles, relationships and resource
  processes were not established.

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Post Sep 11th, 2001
Title 32
SAD
T10

• NG/NGB has routinely conducted joint, combined,
  interagency and intergovernmental operations at
  the request of the POTUS, Governors, Secretary of
  Defense and combatant commanders.
• The NG/NGB enables NORTHCOM and other combatant
  commands to accomplish their missions.

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The Guard Bureau Today
Title 32
SAD
T10