USTRANSCOM Coast Guard Reserve element provides more than 722 workdays
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (USTCNS) ---The Coast Guard Reserve element of the Joint Transportation Reserve Unit at U.S. Transportation Command contributed 722 workdays of support in fiscal year 2000.
The majority of the workday support was in USTRANSCOM operations where JTRU members stood 25% of the watch in the Mobility Command Center and on exercise support.
"The 23 Coast Guard Reserve members of the JTRU contributed 264 annual and special training workdays support and 458 monthly drill days to USTRANSCOM, working exercises, watch standing in the MCC, gapping active duty billets and serving in directorates throughout the command," said Capt. William VanOrden Coast Guard element commander. "An additional 242 drill days were spent in unit training and administration, and are not reflected in the total workday contribution to the command."
The USTRANSCOM JTRU Coast Guard Reserve element is the first and only Coast Guard reserve unit serving at a joint command. It is the leanest force element with 23 members serving in the JTRU. In total, the JTRU's 185 members contributed 7,567 workdays of support to USTRANSCOM in fiscal year 2000.
"The 7,567 workday contribution speaks to the serious commitment by the men and women of the JTRU to the U.S. Transportation Command," said Rear Adm. Thomas Hill commander of the JTRU. "USTRANSCOM requested more than 11,000 workdays of reserve augmentation in FY00, so personnel availability and funding is a major concern."
USTRANSCOM's mission is to provide one-stop global transportation to DOD in peace and war.
"Requests for projected JTRU augmentation for FY 01 is more than 12,300 workdays. Reserve augmentation demand will continue to exceed the supply," noted Hill. "The JTRU will focus on directorates' highest priorities and will coordinate augmentation with reserve training. That is our mission and our challenge."
USTRANSCOM JTRU, the first Department of Defense-authorized joint reserve unit, was activated in September 1991. The unit has more than 185 Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine and Naval reservists who supplement USTRANSCOM active and civilian full-time staff during peak operations or as needed throughout the year.
The majority of the workday support was in USTRANSCOM operations where JTRU members stood 25% of the watch in the Mobility Command Center and on exercise support.
"The 23 Coast Guard Reserve members of the JTRU contributed 264 annual and special training workdays support and 458 monthly drill days to USTRANSCOM, working exercises, watch standing in the MCC, gapping active duty billets and serving in directorates throughout the command," said Capt. William VanOrden Coast Guard element commander. "An additional 242 drill days were spent in unit training and administration, and are not reflected in the total workday contribution to the command."
The USTRANSCOM JTRU Coast Guard Reserve element is the first and only Coast Guard reserve unit serving at a joint command. It is the leanest force element with 23 members serving in the JTRU. In total, the JTRU's 185 members contributed 7,567 workdays of support to USTRANSCOM in fiscal year 2000.
"The 7,567 workday contribution speaks to the serious commitment by the men and women of the JTRU to the U.S. Transportation Command," said Rear Adm. Thomas Hill commander of the JTRU. "USTRANSCOM requested more than 11,000 workdays of reserve augmentation in FY00, so personnel availability and funding is a major concern."
USTRANSCOM's mission is to provide one-stop global transportation to DOD in peace and war.
"Requests for projected JTRU augmentation for FY 01 is more than 12,300 workdays. Reserve augmentation demand will continue to exceed the supply," noted Hill. "The JTRU will focus on directorates' highest priorities and will coordinate augmentation with reserve training. That is our mission and our challenge."
USTRANSCOM JTRU, the first Department of Defense-authorized joint reserve unit, was activated in September 1991. The unit has more than 185 Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine and Naval reservists who supplement USTRANSCOM active and civilian full-time staff during peak operations or as needed throughout the year.
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