and orient them toward DSCA and other missions, we are a cost-eff ec- tive force multiplier.” There is little the Army Reserve cannot do. It provides support and logistics to a wide variety of mis- sions — many of them humanitarian — in the U.S. and around the globe. Three recent missions illustrate the Army Reserve’s full capability:
MEDRETE 15-3, N’Djamena, Chad Army Reserve medical training mis- sions take place all over the world. In April, more than a dozen soldiers assigned to the Army Reserve Medi- cal Command and 7th Civil Support Command participated in Medical Readiness and Training Exercise (MEDRETE) 15-3 at a military train- ing hospital in N’Djamena, Chad. The mission was twofold, re-
ports Lt. Col. Tam Nguyen, a surgi- cal head and neck specialist with the Army Reserve Medical Com- mand. U.S. troops and profession- als not only trained to operate in the kind of austere environment they might encounter during early deployment, but soldiers also bol- stered the capability of the Chadian
health services while fostering medical in- struction between international partners. “The mission was centered on teaching at the military hospital for Chadian armed forces, which is the equivalent of Walter Reed [National Military] Medical Center in the United States,” Nguyen says. “It’s the only military training hospital in Chad.” Nguyen found a lot of equipment Ameri- can doctors take for granted was lacking. For example, most surgeries are conducted using a spinal block because the hospital lacks the equipment necessary to deliver anesthesia gas or monitor a patient’s vital signs. Over the course of the mission, Army Re-
serve medical personnel and Chadian surgeons worked on a variety of cases, including soldiers who had been wounded fi ghting Boko Haram. “They are able to manage all kinds of orthopedic trauma within the constraints
PHOTO: STAFF SGT. SHEJAL PULIVARTI, USA AUGUST 2015 MILITARY OFFICER 59
Chief of the Army Reserve Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley (below) signs a Cyber P3 partnership agreement with six universities and nearly a dozen employers to create a pathway for future cyber warriors.
of their resources,” Nguyen says. “But we expanded the range of operations to include certain head and neck reconstruction. The chief surgeon over there told me he never ventured to do it because they lacked general anesthesia and he was unfamiliar with the anatomy, so we sat down and modifi ed some of the techniques so they could do it in the fi eld using what they have.” Missions such as this have value beyond the sharing of medical knowledge, Nguyen says. “These kinds of missions lay the foundation for trust, mutual interest, and respect from both sides. This is an experience I would not be able to obtain anywhere else. I’m doing this profes- sionally while serving my country, and there isn’t anything more rewarding than that.”
Cyber P3 Terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Qa- ida use the Internet to spread their doctrine of hate, while enemy nations and lone-wolf hack- ers routinely probe U.S. cyber defenses in an eff ort to cause harm to critical infrastructure and military operations. To enhance the military’s cybersecurity, the
U.S. Army Reserve earlier this year launched a partnership with eight top-tier universi- ties and 23 employers, ranging from Verizon Communications Inc. to Northrop Grumman Corp., to create a pathway for future cyber warriors. According to its mission statement, the program, known as the Cyber Private
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