The Future of the Citizen-Soldier Force by Jacobs Jeffrey;

Author:Jacobs, Jeffrey; [JEFFREY A. JACOBS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

C-1

0-14

C-2

15-28

C-3

29-42

C-4

More than 42

Source: GAO, Army Training: Evaluations of Units’ Proficiency Are Not Always Reliable (Washington, D.C.: 1991).

During Desert Storm, the Army selected units for mobilization based in large part on their reported readiness. Yet many units that were ready on paper were in fact unable to perform their missions. Personnel were unqualified for the positions they filled, but were approved—in the case of some Army National Guard units by the states—to fill those positions. Because they were considered acceptable substitutes, these personnel (e.g., a dermatologist in a battlefield surgeon’s slot) did not detract from their units’ readiness ratings.

Interestingly, many, if not most, reserve component unit commanders downgraded their units’ subjective ratings to C-4 upon mobilization. Although some of these changes may have been legitimate, as in the case of a unit that lost key personnel immediately before mobilization, the obvious inference is that the commanders inflated their original subjective assessments of the state of their units’ training. Although this surely occurs in the active component as well, the effect is much greater in the reserve components because active component units are better trained than reserve units. Because a unit rated C-4 is not deployable, whereas units with ratings of C-3 through C-1 are, there is a big difference between a unit whose readiness rating is inflated from C-2 to C-1 and one whose rating is inflated from C-4 to C-3. Desert Storm proved Binkin and Kaufmann’s assertion that “the training ratings have an optimistic bias, reflecting the reserve unit commander’s ‘can do’ attitude as much as his unit’s readiness.”8

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