Talk:Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces

Moved from Military reserves article

The United States military has an extensive reserve system. When a soldier, sailor, marine, airman, coast guardsman, or merchant mariner is discharged from the military, they often choose to enlist in the reserves. This allows them to return to civilian life. They must commit to, and attend, regular though not terribly time-consuming training. They must also commit to serving in active duty if their unit is called to war. In exchange for this commitment and work, they are paid.

This system has benefits for both the military and the servicemember.

All the branches of the military have reserves. * U.S. Army Reserve * U.S. Navy Reserve (formerly known as the U.S. Naval Reserve) [1] * U.S. Marine Corps Reserve * U.S. Air Force Reserve * U.S. Coast Guard Reserve * U.S. Merchant Marines Reserve

In the U.S., the reserve sytem is different from the National Guards, which are affiliated with state governments as well as the federal government.

Feel free to integrate any of the above with this article. El_C 13:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Other countries have a reserve too

This article focuses on the US only. Yonidebest 20:03, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree. this article should be specific to USA only... can we edit the title... because this is getting confused with other stubs/articles like Reserve force, Military reserve and Army reserves. these need consolidation and title change. How about "United States Military Reserve"??? Knowsitallnot 07:36, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Moved Yet Again

I moved this article from United States Military Reserve to here to ensure that the article's title reflects the subject matter, which are the reserve components. However, instead of moving it back to the original reserve component page, I placed it here and derived the title from the language of 10 USC 10101. Now the article has a title that both reflects its subject and is country-specific to the United States. Preuninger 17:21, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned blurb

This text contributed by user:MCG has been deleted from Military reserve and looks like it would belong here. However it is not too comprehensible and needs significant copyediting before it can be used:

In the United States, the Reserves forces such as the qunit mission profile (e.g. Many 'Military Police' trained regular reserve units and 'National Guard units' were mobilized during the Iraq war, as were units specializing in supply, transport, engineering, et al.) These various volunteer manned units are always 'on call' and referred to as the ready reserves but might be augmented by the Inactive Reserves in time of dire emergency or total war under the United States model— the inactive reserve is composed of all former serving members of any of the U.S. Armed Forces of military age. Individuals in this class are former members of the regular and ready reserve forces, that have opted to discontinue service in any of those organized bodys; in general, the inactive reserves are not an organized force, but a resource of trained manpower that can be mobilized similar to calling up a levy but in theory with the training of a militia. Individuals in the inactive reserves with specialized talents are from time to time also recalled into service, albeit rarely. Brianhe 05:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Component category

I have removed this article from Category:Components, because it doesn't seem to belong there. If a category is required at all, it should be one that groups military organizations together, not one that mixes military organizations with automobile parts. --RichardVeryard 09:54, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Reserve Components and the Merchant Marine?

Sorry, but the Merchant Marine is not a Reserve Component of the Armed Forces. While it is true that upon graduation from the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy the newly minted Merchant Marine officer incurs a 8 year obligation as a Navy Reserve officer (or another reserve component), there is no Merchant Marine Reserve, as such. The individual officer is a member of the Navy Reserve. It is not a civilian auxillary of the Navy and never was; the Merchant Marine works very closely with the Navy during peacetime as well as in war. This article warrants changing to correct serveral errors in copy. Cuprum17 (talk) 21:22, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Missing Basic Information

We're missing some basic information. I'll use the information card (or whatever it's called) on the right from the National Guard of the United States as criteria. How long has it been active? How big is it? Does it have a motto?

Can someone please find out these?

Ipod123432 (talk) 04:51, 8 July 2009 (UTC)ipod123432. July 8, 2009

Law authorizes moblizing reservists to respond to natural disasters

http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/news/2012/05/sec-120520-afns01.htm

Worth a mention here? Hcobb (talk) 14:06, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

This is an excellent article: Thank you!

This is an excellent article that has proved very helpful to me as I seek to better understand the Guard and Reserves for my job and for other Wikipedia articles. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to this top-notch Wikipedia entry. - Mark D Worthen PsyD 04:34, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Who is Matt Kapatinatis and why do we care what his opinion is?

Maybe it's someone you folk in the U.S. know about but I doubt it because googling hasn't turned up any information that isn't derived from this article.

I don't have a problem with him or his opinion being cited; I just think it needs covering on what basis we should consider him someone who should be listened to. He's just introduced into the beginning of the article out of the blue with no background information on him.

Mathsgirl (talk) 20:31, 17 February 2016 (UTC)