12 2 STA T .70 2 PUBLIC LA W 110 – 20 3— AP R .23 , 200 8Wher e ast he A r myR eser v e con tr ibu te d169,50 0so l diers to the Army durin g World War I; Whereas the Army Reserve contributed 2 00,000 soldiers and 29 p ercent o f the Army ’ s officers during World War II and w as recogni z ed by G eneral George C.M arshall for its uni q ue and invaluable contributions to the national defense; Whereas 2 4 0,500 soldiers of the Army Reserve were called to active duty during the K orean War; Whereas more than 60,000 Army Reserve soldiers were called to active duty during the B erlin Crisis; Whereas 3 5 Army Reserve units were activated and deployed in support of operations in V ietnam, where they served with distinc - tion and honor; Whereas the Army Reserve contributed more than 94,000 soldiers in support of O perations D esert S torm and Desert Shield in 1990 and 1991; Whereas the Army Reserve contributed more than 4 8 percent of the reserve component soldiers mobilized in support of Operation J oint E ndeavor and Operation Joint Guard in Bosnia; Whereas since September 11, 2001, the Army Reserve has provided indispensable and sustained support for Operations Enduring F reedom, N oble Eagle, and Iraqi Freedom, with 98 percent of units either deployed or providing mobilized soldiers, and more than 14 7 ,000 individual soldiers being mobilized ( of which more than 110,000 individual soldiers have deployed ) in support of the Global War on T errorism; Whereas more than 39,000 individual soldiers of the Army Reserve have served multiple deployments since September 11, 2001; Whereas 13,003 Army Reserve soldiers were forward-deployed in the Central Command Area of Responsibility on October 31, 2007, and 102 soldiers of the Army Reserve had borne the ultimate sacrifice in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom through October 31, 2007; Whereas the Army Reserve is organized into 3 components, the Ready Reserve, the Standby Reserve, and the Retired Reserve, which together contain more than 601,000 soldiers; Whereas the Army cannot go to war or sustain a military operation without the highly s k illed and trained personnel of the Army Reserve; Whereas the Army Reserve provides more than 37 percent of the mission essential combat support and combat service support forces of the Army; Whereas 100 percent of the Army’s Internment Settlement Bri- gades, Judge Advocate General U nits ( L egal Support Organiza- tions), Medical Groups, Railway Units, and Training and E x ercise Divisions are in the Army Reserve; Whereas more than 66 percent of the Army’s Civil Affairs Units, P sychological Operations Units, Theater Signal Commands, Expeditionary Sustainment Commands, and Medical Capabilities are in the Army Reserve; Whereas the Army Reserve is no longer a force held in strategic reserve but today functions as an integral and essential oper- ational reserve in support of the missions of the active Army;
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