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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013) : The Office, [2000]. LC Number: UA25 U48 2000 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)44657681 Subject: United States -- National Guard. Excerpt: ... B-285228 Integration is not free, but the Army has not precisely quantified its cost. It Integration Has is difficult to determine the cost of individual integration efforts because Increased Costs, but expenses are tracked at different levels in separate Guard and active accounts. It is even more difficult to determine the Army's total integration Funding Priorities Are costs because the Army is pursuing integration in a piecemeal fashion and Unchanged has not collected or consolidated the costs of individual integration efforts. As a result, the Army has not fully assessed the cost impacts of integration on each component. Despite data limitations, there is evidence that integration leads to higher costs for the Army as a whole, primarily through increased reserve personnel costs. It is also evident that funding priorities have not been fully updated to reflect the increased use of Guard and Reserve forces in training and operations. While the Army has provided some funding for integration efforts such as the integrated Bosnia task force, it has left other efforts largely unfunded. This means that some costs of integration are being absorbed by Guard and Reserve units themselves or even by individual soldiers. The Army's total force policy, which is designed to maintain a small active Historically, Reserve Forces force that can be augmented by reserve forces in a war, helps the Army Are Less Costly Than Active minimize its costs because reserve units generally cost less than Forces comparable active units. Pay and allowances are generally much lower for 18 reservists ( who are usually paid for only 38 or 39 days per year ) than for full-time active soldiers. Operation and maintenance funding is also generally much lower for the reserves because they tra
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