{"id":35324,"date":"2016-10-04T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2016\/10\/04\/first-army-to-add-more-trainers-to-guard-reserve-units\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:30:26","slug":"first-army-to-add-more-trainers-to-guard-reserve-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/show-reporter\/2016\/10\/04\/first-army-to-add-more-trainers-to-guard-reserve-units\/","title":{"rendered":"First Army to Add More Trainers to Guard, Reserve Units"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the coming months, First Army will put more trainers in Army National Guard and Army Reserve units as part of a sweeping effort to increase readiness across the force, the command&#8217;s top officer said.<br\/><br\/> The partnerships will enable First Army observer\/controller\/trainers to better support the reserve component with the goal of reducing the amount of time units spend preparing to deploy once they&#8217;ve been mobilized, said Lt. Gen. Stephen Twitty, commanding general of First Army, during an interview at AUSA.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;If you want a good product at post-mob, you have to start at pre-mob,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to do it. The Army, the active Army at 450,000 soldiers, we can&#8217;t do it alone, so we must depend on each [component] to accomplish this mission.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> First Army is responsible for advising, assisting and training reserve component formations both before and after they&#8217;re mobilized. During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the command focused almost solely on training soldiers who were preparing to go to war, training more than 90,000 troops a year at 20 mobilization stations across the country.<br\/><br\/> Today, while it still trains deploying soldiers \u2013 more than 20,000 in 2016 &#8211; First Army OCTs also work with Guard and Reserve units at home station. In 2016, the command trained about 115,000 soldiers, Twitty said.<br\/><br\/><b><i>For full AUSA 2016 coverage:<\/i><\/b><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/ausa\" id=\"LPlnk897523\" previewremoved=\"true\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/ausa\">www.defensenews.com\/ausa<\/a><\/i><\/b><br\/><br\/> Twitty credited his predecessor, now-retired Lt. Gen. Michael Tucker, with reorganizing First Army to enable it to better partner with Guard and Reserve units.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;We&#8217;re able to fall in on brigade combat teams and other units having the same capability to be able to provide that subject matter expert,&#8221; Twitty said. &#8220;Because of that partnership, my observer-controllers, they attend battle assemblies, they do coaching and mentoring throughout the year.&#8221;<br\/><br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To build on those relationships, Twitty is preparing to dedicate more OCTs to units across the reserve component. This includes 54 OCTs who typically support rotations at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, and the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Come 1 January, we\u2019re going to stop OCing our active component forces,&#8221; Twitty said. &#8220;I\u2019m going to take those 54, and we\u2019re going to put them into other units where we don\u2019t have the coverage that I\u2019d like.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2560\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27495793650-58780b5ef9-o.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27495793650-58780b5ef9-o.jpg.jpg 3840w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27495793650-58780b5ef9-o.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27495793650-58780b5ef9-o.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27495793650-58780b5ef9-o.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27495793650-58780b5ef9-o.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/27495793650-58780b5ef9-o.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3840px) 100vw, 3840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 194th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, move to engage the enemy in a M1A1 Abrams tank during Decisive Action Rotation 16-07 at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., June 15, 2016. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Daniel Parrott, Operations Group, National Training Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 194th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, move to engage the enemy in a M1A1 Abrams tank during Decisive Action Rotation 16-07 at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif. First Army is working to reduce how much time National Guard units spend at mobilization stations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Photo Credit: Spc. Daniel Parrott\/Army<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitty also plans to pull back OCTs assigned to units that are participating in the Army\u2019s Associated Units pilot program, which pairs active Army units with those in the reserve component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the pilot, the gaining headquarters unit, for example the 3rd Infantry Division, which is partnered with the Georgia Guard\u2019s 48th Brigade Combat Team, is responsible for their subordinate Associated Unit\u2019s training, Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What I\u2019m going to do there, the OCs that we would normally have aligned with them, I\u2019m pulling those back, take those forces, and I\u2019m going to put them on others, particularly in the reserve component,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think where we have not gotten it right \u2026 is in the Army Reserve side. I\u2019m putting more effort in the Reserve with those forces now where we have Associated Units because I can take a little bit of risk there.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army Reserve has a large footprint across the country, and &#8220;we\u2019ve partnered with them, but we have not partnered to my liking,&#8221; Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I need to put more there, because they have a lot of capabilities that are non-existent in the active Army that I need to put more focus on,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Partnerships between First Army trainers and their Guard or Reserve units are long-term commitments, Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Every single thing you do in terms of training, we\u2019re there to assist you along the way,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We\u2019re constantly engaged with you to ensure you\u2019re meeting your readiness needs. I have nine brigades, and each of my nine brigades, they\u2019re partnered with units.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His trainers regularly visit with their partnered units and work with them to develop training plans, Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It\u2019s a relationship that assists a National Guard or Army Reserve unit meet their training objectives, focused on individual training first and then collective training,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3304\" height=\"2204\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original.jpg_f65d47.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original.jpg_f65d47.jpg 3304w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original.jpg_f65d47.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original.jpg_f65d47.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original.jpg_f65d47.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original.jpg_f65d47.jpg?resize=1536,1025 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/original.jpg_f65d47.jpg?resize=2048,1366 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3304px) 100vw, 3304px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VAZIANI, Georgia \u00d0 Soldiers from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division stand in formation during a ceremony kicking off exercise Noble Partner 15. Noble Partner is a field training and live-fire exercise between the U.S. Army and the Georgian military to support Georgia&#8217;s participation in the NATO Response Force and build military ties between the two nations. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Daniel Cole, Army Europe Public Affairs)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Glenn (left), a First Army observer coach\/trainer, observes the movement of soldiers from the Iowa Army National Guard&#8217;s 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, during an exportable combat training capability exercise at Fort McCoy, Wis. First Army has nearly 200 observer coach\/trainers supporting the three-week exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Photo Credit: Master Sgt. Gail Braymen\/Army<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Army also is working to help its Guard and Reserve partners conduct individual training at their home stations, Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When units showed up for post-mob prior to deploying, we took them through individual training,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We\u2019re no longer going to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post-mobilization training should be focused on collective training, Twitty said, adding that this is another way to reduce the amount of time units spend at their mobilization stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On average, it takes about 100 days to get a brigade combat team through their post-mobilization training, Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One hundred days is a non-starter in my view,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Seventy-five days to get a brigade combat team out the door is a non-starter. With the amount of active-duty BCTs that we have in our Army today, we have to have our National Guard BCTs ready to deploy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Army continues to work with the Army Guard to &#8220;come up with the right number,&#8221; Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don\u2019t know what that\u2019s going to be, but we\u2019re coming together to talk about it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal, under a four-year model, is to have two Guard brigades ready to go if needed, Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Two brigades is a lot, that\u2019s almost 10,000 soldiers in addition to the Army\u2019s capability that we can deploy when needed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the First Army OCTs continue to work with Guard and Reserve, the units are most often asking for subject matter experts, Twitty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For the past 15 years, they have been fighting a counter-insurgency fight as well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They know very little about decisive action training. 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