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Recommendation Supporting Information 18-Apr-05
RC Transformation in Minnesota
the Army Reserve Regional Readiness Command, validated by the Army Audit Agency,
analyzed by the Army Basing Study Group, and utilized for deliberations.
Faribault, Cambridge: Proposal closes lower value installations (in terms of the
condition of the facilities, encroachment, proper size building, military vehicle parking
and storage for the type of unit) and consolidates onto existing higher value installations
where geographically feasible or onto a new installation of higher value because it meets
the requirements of the Army's Stationing Strategy for Reserve Component installations.
This recommendation will significantly improve readiness and home station training
opportunities by collocating U.S. Army Reserve and Army National Guard Combat,
Combat Support and Combat Service Support units. This collocation of multiple and
varied units will allow for more effective communications, more realistic training venues
and create cross-functional career development opportunities. The new AFRCs will
enhance distributed learning and professional skills / sustainment training.
Implementation of this recommendation will enhance individual soldier and unit
readiness by providing modern facilities for Reserve Component personnel and units to
execute the Train/Alert/Deploy process in support of mobilization/demobilization
operations.
Collocation of multiple units into joint use, multi-functional centers provides
substantially improved homeland defense capabilities throughout the State of Minnesota.
Upon activation of the unit/units for emergency contingency missions, the centers will
provide critical enhanced communications infrastructure and staging areas for a more
rapid response. The capacity of the facilities allows for a response by larger, more
capable task organized forces. Due to the existence of federally controlled enclaves and
secure communication capabilities, the centers may also provide a platform for
interagency participation and cooperation in response to a wide range of emergency
homeland defense situations.
This recommendation will enhance recruitment and retention of the men and women in
the Reserve Component by setting the conditions for better home station training and
increased support for family readiness operations for mobilized reservists.
This recommendation considered feasible locations within the demographic and
geographic areas of the closing facilities and affected units. The sites selected were
determined as the best locations because they optimize the Reserve Components ability
to recruit and retain Reserve Component soldiers and to train and mobilize units
impacted by this candidate recommendation. These buildings are undersized and do notDraft Deliberative Document -- For Discussion Purposes Only -- Do Not Release Under FOIA
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