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-222- An Operational Analysis of Cadre must participate in training themselves, then new recruits must be trained in the existing individual training system. This is more likely to be the case for cadre units that have low mission focus (dual-hatted, senior IRR) than it is for those that spend a significant amount of time planning for war (maintenance, AC units with surplus personnel). Nonetheless, even if cadre leaders cannot train new recruits in wartime, we have seen that there is excess capacity within the existing training system that could be utilized. 5.3.2—Collective Training Once a cadre unit has been filled out with trained junior personnel, it begins collective training. Some of this training would occur at the unit’s home base. However, since the base will likely not be large enough for a full BCT to maneuver, each cadre BCT will also require about a month 153 of training at a collective training site such as the National Training Center (NTC) or Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC). Unlike the capacity of the individual training system, the capacity of the collective training system does not constrain the ability of a cadre augmented force to mobilize. This is due to the nature of fighting a war with rotation. If each year, 19 new BCTs must be deployed, each of those brigades will rotate through the collective training sites before being deployed. Therefore, the capacity of the collective training system only needs to be large enough to handle the 19 BCTs rotating through each year, no matter which type. 154 We estimate that when running at full capacity, the collective training system can train about 24 ____________ 153 Blain (2006), p. 3. Department of the Army (2007d), p. 1. 154 More rotation slots would be required for RC BCTs because they must rotate at a faster pace because they only provide eight months boots on the ground per deployment versus the twelve months provided by AC and cadre units. However, this difference would only matter for a force with a much higher proportion of RC units than any of those analyzed in this dissertation.
-223- An Operational Analysis of Cadre BCTs per year. 155 This is large enough to support even the largest rotational force examined in this dissertation, the +18 BCT force, which can sustain 23 BCTs deployed in each year. Therefore, collective training capacity is not an issue for a cadre augmented force insomuch as it is not an issue for any of the non-cadre forces used as comparisons in this dissertation. 5.4—DEMOBILIZING CADRE UNITS Near the end of a long war, as requirements for deployed forces begin to decrease, cadre units would be demobilized. There are a number of concerns with demobilizing cadre units. First, there is a question of choosing the appropriate time to demobilize cadre units. We would not want to demobilize units only to need them again in the near future. A second issue is reducing end-strength. The number of junior personnel in the force must be reduced as cadre units are demobilized. This may require the use of incentives such as separation bonuses. 5.4.1—Timing In Section 5.1, we discussed the timing of the activation of cadre units. We argued that the Army should set in place a policy in peacetime that would help dictate when cadre units should be mobilized in wartime. Similarly, this policy should also be explicit about when cadre units should be demobilized. Like the activation policy, this policy could dictate that cadre units be demobilized when the requirement for deployed forces drops below the level that AC forces can sustain at rotation guidance for more than one year. This provides ____________ 155 This assumes two collective training centers training a new BCT every 30 days. The Government Accountability Office estimates an even larger number (28-32) of BCTs that can be trained pet year based on three combat training centers (they include the Joint Multinational Readiness Center) [GAO (2007c), p. 6]. In any case, the number of BCTs that can be trained is much higher than that which the rotational force can sustain in a given year.
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