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Figure 3.2—Tillson et al Ready-Standby Organization 71
Tillson et al argued that the Ready-Standby Organization could both reduce costs
and increase unit cohesion compared with the force structure that existed at the time. It is
not important to go into further detail about the RSO except to say that the general principle
of rotating units through cadre status over time may be another way to structure the cadre
augmented forces proposed in this dissertation.
3.3.2—An ARFORGEN Rotational Cadre Force
We might think about applying the Ready-Standby Organization with to build a
cadre augmented force. This would require significant changes to army personnel policies.
However, these changes would be no more significant than some of the other options
discussed in this chapter. Because the Army has recently adopted ARFORGEN, we consider
reconciling RSO with ARFORGEN so that when a RSO unit is in active status it moves
through the three ARFORGEN force pools. The rest of this subsection shows how we
might apply the Ready-Standby Organization together with ARFORGEN.
We might consider a rotating cadre force where some AC units spend three years in
active (ready) status building capability over this time according to ARFOGEN and three
years in cadre (standby) status. To maintain the same capability, there would have to be two
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71 Tillson et al (1990), p. I-9 [replicated]