The Air Reserve Component's Participation in the Total Force

<p>The Air Reserve Component (i.e. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard) has had and continues to have and is forecasted to have a significant role in major military operations (i.e. wars and major contingency operations) throughout the world. However there's not a lot information published out there to validate this factual statement. Thus this author/researcher is presenting this paper in an effort to help provide historical proof and more importantly shed light on the fact that the Air Reserve Component (ARC) is participating at a level it may not be able to sustain for much longer. Moreover this author also believes that even with the current efforts to transform the ARC into a fully integrated facet with the active force (i.e. the Total Force Integration programming) participation levels are likely to continue to be high for our traditionally part time force. Therefore this researcher will present some re-organizational suggestions that while they're outside the contemporary/mainstream Air Force (AF) lines of thought can possibly ease the strain on ARC forces but also will correlate to a better equipped total force that can answer the call of both current and future operations.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>