Training and Readiness Oversight Legal Basis

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Training and Readiness OversightLegal Basis

• COL RONALD M. REED, USAF
• PRINCIPAL DEPUTY LEGAL COUNSEL TO THE CHAIRMAN OF
  THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

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LEGAL BASES

• Goldwater-Nichols (10 USC Sections 162 167)
• Requires Service Secretaries to assign all forces
  to unified commands (10 USC 162/167)
• Combatant Commanders exercise COCOM (10 USC 164)
  over assigned AD and RC Forces when mobilized or
  on AD
• COCOM includes control of resources and training
  necessary to accomplish missions
• Service Secretaries responsible for training,
  maintaining, and equipping
• SECDEF Perry Memo, 6 SEP 96
• Includes cover memo and attachment
• Reviews law
• Provides authority Combatant Commanders exercise
  over RC when not on AD/ADT (TRO)

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TRAINING READINESS OVERSIGHT

• Training Readiness Oversight (TRO) -- authority
  that Combatant Commanders exercise over assigned
  RC forces when not on AD/ADT
• TRO includes the authority to
• Provide guidance to component commanders on
  operational requirements and priorities to be
  addressed in training programs
• Comment on component program recommendations and
  requests
• Coordinate and approve participation by assigned
  RC forces in joint exercises/training when on
  AD/ADT
• Obtain and review readiness and inspection
  reports on assigned RC forces
• Coordinate and review mob plans for RC forces.

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BOTTOM LINE

• Statutory basis for Combatant Commander to
  exercise COCOM
• COCOM includes coordinating and approving, among
  other things, training necessary to ensure
  mission success of all assigned forces
• SECDEF Memo provides authority in the absence of
  COCOM (e.g. assigned RC forces not on AD), called
  TRO
• TRO authorizes Combatant Commanders to provide
  guidance, comment on, and coordinate component
  training
• TRO requires components and authorizes Combatant
  Commanders to communicate adequately to
  accomplish COCOM responsibilities