However, the heavy reliance on the Reserve component (COMPO 3), coupled with civilian job demands and family commitments, has led to ongoing vacancies of mid-career officers in the USAR.

Those specialties, whether from civilian experience or through Army training, are necessary for the Reserve to achieve its mission of providing the bulk of major combat operations support to the ...

Now, the reserve is well above its goal of filling its sergeant ranks, having 34,500 -- 108% of its "authorized strength," which measures the number of troops in a given rank it is supposed to have.

U.S. Army Medical Reserve Soldiers were able to work alongside Airmen from the 60th Medical Group, as part of a large-scale combat operations training environment, displaying interoperability ...

The new fitness test will be gradually implemented starting June 1, and take full effect for the active Army on Jan. 1, 2026, and for the Army Reserve and National Guard on June 1, 2026.

The service announced Detachment 201 earlier this month with tech executives from Palantir, Meta, Open AI and Thinking Machines Lab who were sworn into the Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels June 13.