CAMP RED CLOUD, South Korea — Area I and the Camp Red Cloud garrison will merge to form a “super garrison” encompassing three camps in the Uijeongbu enclave and with control over the Camp Casey “sub garrison,” the Army has announced.

Area I commander Col. Forrest R. Newton told base workers at Camp Red Cloud that by July the super garrison would take over the functions of both Area I and the Red Cloud garrison, which includes camps Red Cloud, Stanley and Jackson.

“All will come under me as the garrison commander for this area,” he said last week.

The organizational design will conform to what the Army approved on May 13 as a way to standardize garrison structures and management worldwide, according to an e-mail from Area I officials.

There are no plans yet to cut jobs as part of the reorganization, Newton said

“The intent is not to at this time, but I don’t know (if there will be cuts) because I have to look,” he said, adding that there is a priority placement list that will be used to fill jobs within the super garrison.

Newton said he would meet with base workers every two months until the super garrison is formed.

Red Cloud garrison commander Lt. Col. William Huber will become the super garrison’s “transformation officer,” Newton said.

Bill Kapaku, Huber’s assistant, will manage Camp Stanley, an Area I public affairs official said.

Kapaku said the goal of merging Area I and the Red Cloud garrison, which have separate headquarters at Red Cloud, was to provide more efficient services.

The Area I super garrison will be organized along the same lines as super garrisons that have existed for many years in areas II, III and IV, he said.

“Very little will change in terms of what we do,” said Kapaku, adding that the super garrison will provide more than 85 Army business line services.

“These things are broken into common levels of support covering a myriad of areas from housing to Army Community Services and engineering services,” he explained.

The standardization of garrisons is a process that has been ongoing since the formation of the Installation Management Agency (IMA) in 2002, Kapaku said.

“In the past, before the IMA was formed, there were installations that were ‘haves’ and others that were ‘have-nots.’ You could go to a great place like Fort Benning (Ga.) and have great services or you could go to Camp Stanley and they would have their own thing going on there,” he said.

Standard garrison organizations will mean that no matter where a soldier is stationed the standard of services will be the same. A soldier moving from Fort Drum, N.Y., to Camp Casey, South Korea, will find exactly the same services at his new post, Kapaku said.

“These are going to be flagship installations and great places for soldiers to live and work,” he said.