Out of This World

Video by Byron Martin

Army Reserve Today, April 2015

U.S. Army Reserve Command

April 11, 2015 | 29:59

April 2015 episode of the Army Reserve's quarterly video news magazine.

In this edition of Army Reserve Today

Balancing the force.the challenges of reducing manpower in a changing
defense environment while helping those affected.

Full court press..focusing army reserve leaders on the issues impacting
personnel retention: it truly is everyone's business.

Promoting army reserve capabilities...keeping an operational edge by
engaging army service component commands...and showing them what we bring to
the table..

Army reserve soldiers come together from across america to transform desert
terrain into a airfield for a major army training center.

USARPAC Army Reserve engagement cell: a new way to ensure army reserve
operational readiness is maintained in the pacific while providing regional
support to the active component...

CSTX: one combat support training exercise trains army reserve soldiers,
units and commands in their war time missions, while working with active
army components, national guard soldiers, and other services elements...

Doing it old school: when modern technology fails, employees at an army
reserve pay center roll up their sleeves and process soldiers pay
manually...taking care of their troops.

An airfield blooms in the desert: twelve army reserve engineer units build
an airfield at the national training center.

Keep on trucking: an army reserve unit from Maine heads north of the border
to help the Canadian army transport equipment across a continent.

Building relationships: an army reserve soldier finds some new friends in
exotic Thailand while participating in a major multinational exercise.

Learning from the past: soldiers from one army reserve command spend time
learning about their military heritage on a historic American battlefield.