Considering a Cadre Augmented Army - RAND Corporation

-104- A Budgetary Analysis of Cadre
Table A.5—Number of Units Per Deployed BCT
Force Number of Units per Deployed BCT
AC (1)
24 + 12
B1
= = 3
12 − 0
RC (2)
60 + 12
B2
= = 9
12 − 4
Cadre (3)
24 + 12
B3
= = 3
12 − 0
A.4—AC STRESS
In the main body of this paper we showed that even though we allowed a cadre
augmented force to deploy AC units with as little as one year at home while cadre units
mobilize, very few units are actually deployed with less than two years at home. This section
shows how we calculated the percentage of AC units deployed with less than two years at
home.
We use the Long War Assignment Model (LWAM) to calculate the number of AC
units deployed with less than two years at home during wartime. 130 The LWAM calculates
the number of units deployed from each time-step at home since their last deployment. For
the analyses carried out in this paper, we defined time-steps as trimesters. Therefore, the
LWAM measured the number of units deployed from every trimester at home since their last
deployment. The LWAM then divides this number by the total number of AC units
deployed over the given time horizon to determine the percentage of AC units deployed
with less than two years at home during wartime. We combine these wartime values with an
assumption about the peacetime deployments of AC units to calculate the percentage of AC
units deployed with less than two years at home over the long term.
____________
130 See Appendix B for more detail on the LWAM.