DoD Clarifies Reserve-Component Mobilization Policy

Week of April 23, 2007

National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers will mobilize and deploy for only one year, despite a new policy that active Soldiers will deploy for 15-month tours, a top defense official stressed Friday. Mr. Thomas F. Hall, assistant defense secretary for reserve affairs, reaffirmed that reserve-component Soldiers are not affected by the 15-month tour policy that Defense Secretary Mr. Robert M. Gates announced April 11. Four National Guard brigades have been alerted for possible mobilization for duty in Iraq beginning in December 2007. If needed, those brigades will mobilize, deploy and redeploy within one year. On Jan. 19, Mr. Gates mandated reserve components would mobilize for one year and then have five years before another mobilization.

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