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be spent on cadre unit duties. 77 For the RC unit with surplus personnel, we assumed that an
RC cadre leader costs 28 percent of an AC cadre leader. 78 For the senior IRR, we assume
that leaders are paid ten percent of AC pay in order to show up for one weekend every six
months to verify their location and perform some planning exercises.
Two peacetime duties are omitted from Table 3.1 because the costs are difficult to
calculate. First, we ignore the TTHS cadre unit because its cost would depend on how the
Army valued additional educational opportunities. It is difficult to estimate how the Army
would value this additional education. In the worst case that the army places no value on
this, this type of cadre unit will cost as much as the maintenance and AC+ cadre units.
Second, we ignore rotating cadre units because their cost would depend on the ratio of IRR
personnel to dual-hatted personnel and the percentage of time that the dual-hatted personnel
are performing cadre unit duties. Again, due to the uncertainties involved in estimating these,
we do not try to estimate a relative cost. 79
3.4.2—Tradeoffs
In this chapter, we have discussed a number of pros and cons for each of the
peacetime cadre organizations we examined. In this subsection, we provide a broad picture
of the tradeoffs between the alternatives explored in this chapter. Figure 3.3 shows a
stoplight chart comparing the different alternatives on most of the criteria identified in this
chapter.
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77 We assumed that for domestic training cadre units one-third of each year would be spent on cadre duties.
For foreign training cadre units, we assumed that half of years one and two of the peacetime ARFOGREN
cycle would be spent on cadre duties and that the unit would be deployed in year three, performing no cadre
duties in this year.
78 Jaffe (2006)
79 The five percent cost estimate from Tillson et al (1990) appears too low, but it is unlikely that the cost of this
type of unit would exceed 20 percent of an AC unit.