{"id":48652,"date":"2019-10-14T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/14\/from-machine-gun-ranges-to-cyber-attacks-demands-are-high-on-the-army-guard-and-reserve\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:10:20","slug":"from-machine-gun-ranges-to-cyber-attacks-demands-are-high-on-the-army-guard-and-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2019\/10\/14\/from-machine-gun-ranges-to-cyber-attacks-demands-are-high-on-the-army-guard-and-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"From machine gun ranges to cyber attacks, demands are high on the Army Guard and Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2013 The Army Guard and Reserve have been pounding out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/10\/09\/largest-middle-east-military-exercise-features-army-marine-ground-troops-in-multi-domain-and-urban-defense\/\" target=_blank>a lot of training<\/a>, deployments and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/10\/13\/these-army-armor-soldiers-will-go-through-the-new-22-week-osut\/\" target=_blank>increased readiness<\/a> in the past few years, and they just might get a break if one four-star general has his way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heads of the Army National Guard, Army Reserve and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/10\/13\/a-big-army-warfighting-focused-exercise-is-planned-for-south-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">Army Forces Command<\/a> spoke at the Guard and Reserve breakfast Monday at the annual Association of the U.S. Army Meeting and Exposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2019\/10\/12\/how-the-army-picks-battalion-commanders-could-get-a-major-overhaul-by-next-year\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/formation-army.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">How the Army picks battalion commanders could get a major overhaul by next year<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The new assessment would add writing, leadership and the new Army Combat Fitness Test.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen. Michael Garrett, who oversees more than 700,000 soldiers between active, Guard and Reserve components, told the hundreds gathered that the workload going to the Guard and Reserve is on his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStress on our forces is something I am thinking about a lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past summer at a meeting of the ANG\u2019s state commanders, they told Garrett that the past three years of Stryker and armored brigade combat team four-year readiness cycles was straining that part of the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of that was necessary, he said, because the SBCT and ABCT readiness on the active side since 2016 wasn\u2019t where it needed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, Guard and Reserve ABCTs and SBCTs have shifted this past year to a five-year readiness model, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, in even low-level ways, such as weapons live fires, the Guard and Reserve are seeing more training than has traditionally been the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Reserve commander Lt. 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While the service also provided 1.8 million man hours of state active duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there are efforts to move the 1:4 deployment to dwell that is average across the Guard to a 1:5 ratio, Hokanson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of those stateside deployments are different than the historical natural disaster response work that many in the Guard have conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Louisiana Guard activated 95 soldiers when 30,000 students in 54 schools were affected by a ransomware virus that hit 10,000 information technology systems, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the state line in another incident, 50 Guardsmen were activated when a cyber attack hit 23 entities ranging from local government to police and sheriff\u2019s offices, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, both the Guard and Reserve are pushing to keep pace with their active 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