Each service is required to meet a goal of having no more than 5 percent of its total active duty, reserve and National Guard forces non-deployable within the next two years, said Mike Melillo, deputy director for force management in the office of personnel management. Melillo said some services have already met that goal, but he would not identify which ones, nor would he identify which services have not met the goal.
Just the introduction of the policy, first reported by Military Times in February, has had the effect of getting people back to deployability, he said. It achieves the intended effect of [Mattis' policy. In January, DoD reported that approximately 11 percent of its total reserve, active duty and National Guard force, or , personnel, were non-deployable. That number dropped to approximately , by July. Military Times learned Monday that as of Aug. That number fluctuates on a daily basis as some personnel get off the list, while others get on, Mulcahy said.
Service members will be able to appeal a separation, she said. For soldiers who are pushing the limit, commanders are to use written counseling and performance evaluations to document readiness failures and provide warning of a possible separation. Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members. Your Army. By Meghann Myers. Nov 13, By Michelle Tan.
About Meghann Myers. More In Your Army. Those components are: body composition, flexibility, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and cardiorespiratory endurance. A rendering depicts part of the proposed soldier performance readiness centers. Hibbard, whose command is the proponent for H2F, framed the program as one that prioritizes physical and mental fitness in the same way the Army prioritizes gear maintenance.
Twenty-eight brigades in the operational force will be the first to receive H2F resources. And though it starts in , it will take time to hire the necessary professionals.
The initiative does call for some investment in resources, including the construction of more than facilities over the next four years, according to federal contracts. Inside the facility, treatment, teaching and counseling spaces will be open all day and staffed by certified professionals. The concept paper also highlighted problems with obesity within the Army. In one brigade deployed to Afghanistan, obese soldiers had a 40 percent greater chance of injury than their counterparts who were at a healthy weight.
The H2F concept paper promises to proactively identify soldiers at risk of those injuries and poor fitness levels, and get them the required help, whether that be better nutritional advice, lifting instruction, sleep practices or something else entirely.
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