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WASHINGTON — The commission tasked with examining the future force structure of the US Army is taking a close look at the possibility of incorporating multi-component aviation units made up of both full-time troops and reservists, according to commission member and former Pentagon comptroller Bob Hale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hale is the leader of the National Commission on the Future of the Army’s Aa<\/span>viation Ss<\/span>ubcommittee, charged with looking at one of the more controversial plans the service has for its future force structure. The Army has proposed taking all of its AH-64 Apache attack helicopters out of the Army National Guard and moving them into the active force. In exchange, the Guard would get UH-60 Blackhawk utility helicopters, but not in a one-for-one deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guard, which has fought the plan, hashave<\/span> proposed other ideas to restructure the Army’ aviation assets that would allow the reserve component to keep some of its Apaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hale said the subcommittee has considered several criteria in looking at possible options for the Army aviation branch’s future structure, such as wartime capacity,\u00a0and <\/span>surge capabilities and\u00a0as well as<\/span> peacetime deployments.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Right now, active Apache units deployed forward does not appear to meet the Army’s goal of [boots on the ground] to dwell time of one to two,” Hale noted Thursday at an open commission meeting, and added,”We are struggling\u2026 given the murkiness of the cost situation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“BOG to dwell time” refers to the ratio of the amount of time a unit spends at home resetting and training to\u00a0and<\/span> the amount of time it spends deployed in a theater of operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The subcommittee has examined the Army’s aviation-restructure initiative that proposes the shift of Apaches from the Guard to the active force, but it has also looked at a number of other counterproposals, including\u00a0the National Guard’s counter proposal and a number of others<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are looking not only at force structure options that affect the number of Apaches and where they are,” Hale said, but “also organizational options.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that, the subcommittee is considering whether the Army could make greater use of multi-component units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By multi-component I mean organizations that have one part of the regular Army and one from the reserve components,” Hale explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In examining options within that construct, Hale said the subcommittee looked at a number of alternative approaches, such as the Air Force’s reserve-associate concept that has reserve components and the regular Air Force sharing equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have a limited ability to apply that in the Army because in the number of cases, the Army, all the pilots need their own helicopter,” Hale revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But there may be other approaches that would work in terms of greater use of multi-component, forward-deployed units and I think they are worth looking at,” he added, because the concept could bring the active and reserve component together in training, as well asand would<\/span> enhance integration efforts into a “one Army concept,” something the Army’s new chief of staff Gen. Mark A. Milley is pushing. The “Total Army concept” envisions a service that seeks to close the gap between active and reserve capabilities, and it would more seamlessly integrate the Army’s three components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hale said he wanted to “underscore” that the commission’s subcommittee has not reached any final “public” decisions on either the force structure or the organizational issues, “but I think we are making good progress.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The commission was established by the\u00a0in the fiscal year <\/span>2015 National Defense Authorization Act because the Army and the National Guard reached an impasse over how many soldiers should serve in each component, as well as<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0what kinds of capabilities each should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law requires the commission to assess the size of the active Army and the reserve forces. It\u00a0and <\/span>has given it until Feb. 1 to deliver a full report to Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission’s leader, retired Army Gen. Carter Ham, said Thursday that the commission is on track “perhaps just barely” to meet its reporting deadline, calling it an “aggressive timeline.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vice chair of the commission, Thomas Lamont, told reporters after the meeting that the commission has to be able to submit a draft report for a security review “roughly right after the first of the year,” which leaves little time when accounting for the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamont also noted that the uncertainty of fiscal year <\/span>2017 Army funding “is causing us some pause.” He added, “There is a shortfall as I understand in ’17 of a considerable amount of money to DoD. . . . What that allocation will be, what the decrement to the Army will be, we are not sure, but we have to anticipate a relatively substantial decrement.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the report will attempt to take into account the expected shortfalls, “I think we will raise some concerns about resourcing,” Lamont said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World events that weren’t anticipated when the commission was formed\u00a0also\u00a0Something else that <\/span>complicates<\/span> the commission’s work is world events that weren’t anticipated when the commission was formed<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That too gives us some pause in our recommendations, just looking at our security outlook,” Lamont said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: jjudson@defensenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter: @JenJudson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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