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WASHINGTON (USA SOC News Service) — As forces draw down from Afghanistan, more are available for regional alignment, said the Army’s top forces gen-eration leader.

But unfortunately, total forces are also drawing down, limit-ing that manpower, added Gen. Daniel B. Allyn, commander, U.S. Army Forces Command, known as FORSCOM.

Allyn and seven other panel members spoke Oct. 22, at a fo-rum on regionally aligned forces, or RAF, at the 2013 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition at the Washington Convention Center.

The Army “intends that all forces not committed to assigned missions” — like those in Korea, Afghanistan and in the Global Response Force — “will be in a regionally aligned force con-struct, available to the geographi-cal combatant commander,” he said.

Besides the issue of availabil-ity of forces for RAFs, the other is sequestration and budgetary challenges facing all the services, he said, noting that training is also taking a heavy hit.

For a RAF unit to be at a full readiness level, it goes through a thorough training cycle at a combat training center, which includes decisive action engage-ments and wide-area security, as well as follow-on, region-specific training.

But the dollars are not there, he said, to rotate units through that cycle, except for those as-signed to ongoing operations.

For example, should se-questration continue, just one FORSCOM-assigned RAF brigade — 4th Brigade Combat TEam, 1st Infantry Division, backfilling 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, for AFRICOM — will be able to train at NTC this fiscal year. “That’s how tight our resources are,” Allyn said.

“If there were more resources available, we would certainly be

sending more [brigade combat teams] to combat training cen-ters,” he said.

RAF itself is seen by Army leaders as the best strategy going forward, even in this cli-mate of uncertainty and scarce resources.

RAF is important during this time of fiscal austerity and the drawdown, said panel member Lt. Gen. James L. Huggins Jr., deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7. “We’ll need to rely more and more on our partners’ capabilities and they on ours, as their armies are drawing down as well.”

HOW.RAF.WORKSBrigades, divisions and corps

are assigned to combatant com-manders from different regions of the world — U.S. Africa Com-mand, U.S. European Command, U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Cen-tral Command, and U.S. Southern Command.

Those forces, including active and reserve components, could be U.S.-based with some forces deployed to the region to which they’re assigned.

The level of forces in the re-gion could be an entire brigade, as was the case during an AFRI-COM exercise in South Africa this year, and during a corps-level ex-ercise this year in Australia. Or, it could be as small as a two-Soldier advise-and-assist mission.

Units assigned to a region could also be deployed outside their area, should the need arise. Units are not permanently as-signed to regions. They rotate in and out of the various regions.

While component commanders can get pretty much the tailor-able and scalable force they need, when they need it, they should try to anticipate those needs in as far in advance to mitigate risk and delays and help the Army better apportion those assets, Huggins said.

The primary goal of RAF is to prevent war by partnering with

nations within the region, accord-ing to Allyn. Partnering can be military-to-military training, pro-viding disaster relief and humani-tarian assistance, and sharing intelligence and interoperability.

Partnering with other nations includes “engagements and in-teractions between us, our allies and partners — and even poten-tially our adversaries,” he said, adding that the players include not just the Army and its sister services, but also U.S. and for-eign governments, agencies and non-governmental agencies.

REGIONAL.EXPERTISEThe National Guard has had

a State Partnership Program, or SSP, for 20 years now, a precur-sor to the current RAF. Addition-ally, the Army Reserve has also had a robust military-to-military training program for a number of years. The reserve components’ programs, together with the active component, are all tools in the toolbox that the combat-ant commanders have at their disposal.

There are some advantages SSP has. While active-duty RAF units rotate in and out of regions, National Guard Soldiers, whose states are aligned with different countries on a more or less per-manent basis, have “long last-ing relationships” that the active component doesn’t, said panel member Maj. Gen. Patrick A. Murphy, adjutant general, New York National Guard.

Murphy’s New York Guard has been aligned with South Africa for 10 years, and he said their close personal relationships have “fos-tered a high level cooperation,” particularly in law enforcement. The New York Guard brought their expertise to bear as advi-sors for the World Cup, which was held in that country.

Panel member Maj. Gen. Pat-rick J. Donahue II, commander, U.S. Army Africa/Southern Euro-pean Task Force, concurred that the State Partnership Program

really works. During a visit to Botswana, he said that while his active-duty Soldiers were given a cordial welcome, “when the North Carolina Guard showed up, they were treated like rock stars. It’s all about those estab-lished personal relationships, plus, the Guard has that resident expertise.”

The Army Reserve also adds special benefits to RAF, said panel member Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley, chief, Army Reserve/commander, Army Reserve Com-mand. “We provide long-term sta-bility just as the Guard does,” he said.

The Reserve has conducted training exercises in some 30 countries over the last year, as part of the Army Reserve En-gagement Cells program, he said. Within those cells are subject-matter experts with expertise in logistics, medicine, engineering, languages and a host of other areas, he said.

The Reserve’s civil affairs units have Soldiers trained in myriad languages and cultures, he said. The Reserve also has a linguist program Soldiers can take advantage of.

Some of those Soldiers may also be working full time in the State Department and other agencies, he added.

Talley said he encourages Soldiers leaving active duty to consider the Reserve, as they still have invaluable talent their country can use.

Another stabilizing factor in national and regional expertise are special operations troops, who have in-depth language and cultural expertise and often train and advise militaries, said panel member Maj. Gen. Chris-topher K. Haas, commander, U.S. Army Special Forces Command (Airborne).

As to the active component part of RAF, the Soldiers are usually not linguists or resident

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experts, but they are ex-pected to have a good level of cultural understanding as a result of their RAF experiences, Allyn said.

Additionally, it is not uncommon for active-duty formations to have Soldiers whose first language and culture are not American. While the process for find-ing these Soldiers has not yet been institutionalized, Allyn said wise command-ers should “scan their formations to identify resi-dent expertise” for regions their units are assigned.

FRENCH.RAF.MODELThe French have been

able to use their intimate knowledge of many areas of the world where French is spoken and where they have lived and trained since colonial times, said panel member Maj. Gen. Olivier Tramond, director, French Army Doctrine Center.

The French led a suc-cessful peacekeeping mission recently in Mali, where jihadist forces were prevented from overrun-ning the country. Tramond credits past French out-reach efforts in Africa with getting other nations on-board with that peacekeep-ing effort.

Although the French army is relatively small, Tramond said they’ve been doing RAF-like missions throughout the world for

decades. He said small units sent in are often isolated, so they have to adapt, think for them-selves and rely on partner nations, including those in the European Union and U.N., probably even more so than the U.S.

Because their army is small, he said its members must be highly trained, en-culturated and ready to de-ploy at a moment’s notice.

NOTES.OF.CAUTIONThere’s a danger that

with a shrinking budget and manpower, that the

“Army is trying to cover down on the world. Forces will shrink and resourc-es are finite,” said panel member Nathan Freier, se-nior fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and Interna-tional Studies.

The Army needs to bet-ter identify where impor-tant engagements will be, he continued, because “in some places where it’s im-portant to be, we won’t be allowed in because we’re not welcomed.”

Also, “some things we want to prevent are not

preventable,” he said, citing stability of nations that might be influenced by political or grass roots events, where military-to-military exchanges, while helpful, cannot prevent all instability around the world.

The thought in the De-fense Department seems to be, “we’ll manage ter-

rorist threats remotely” through cyber and “use SOC” where force is need-ed and direct other forces to Iran or North Korea should the balloon go up.

Nevertheless, Freier ac-knowledged advantages to using RAF to learn to op-erate in austere and chal-lenging conditions around the world.

Allyn concluded that one of the most important benefits of RAF is that it’s exciting work for young leaders. He used the ex-ample of a second lieuten-ant deployed to Uganda to help train her military police counterparts. She left highly motivated by what she and her Soldiers accomplished.

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CRESTVIEW — Capt. Thomas Cieslak, the Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)’s new public affairs officer, said the group’s size is expected to stay steady for the time being.

That’s between 3,500 and

4,000 soldiers and support per-sonnel, he said.

7th Group’s members and their families have become inte-gral to the Crestview community since the base opened in Octo-ber 2011.

Cieslak — who acknowl-edged a lapse of accessibility when its former public affairs officer was transferred — as-

sured members of the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce last week that the 7th Group is “pushing to get back into the community.”

One of the best ways the com-munity can support the unit is to understand that the group’s low-key, often covert operations preclude releasing too much information, Cieslak said. That

limits opportunities for home-coming celebrations when troops return from missions, he said.

“There’s certain things we just can’t discuss,” Cieslak said. “It protects the Soldiers that are down there (on missions in Latin America) and their fami-lies back here.”

Cieslak assumed his new du-

ties less than a month ago. He said he decided to live in Crest-view because of its proximity to south Okaloosa County’s beach-es and the north countryside’s peaceful calm.

“We have never experienced a support group like we’ve found here in Crestview,” he said. “It’s opened my eyes a lot about how supportive the area is.”

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Keeping the military as combat ready as pos-sible during this period of budget chaos will require an accelerated force draw-down starting in 2014, the Defense Department’s chief financial officer said Tuesday.

That will mean more tumult for personnel be-cause a steeper drawdown likely will require some involuntary separations of military careerists and reductions-in-force orders, RIFs, for civilian employ-ees, Robert F. Hale, under secretary of defense and comptroller, warned dur-ing an interview in his of-fice at the Pentagon.

“We will try to minimize them,” Hale said of any force-out actions. “So much depends on factors we don’t entirely control.”

For example, an im-proving economy that en-hances private sector job opportunities could entice more military and defense civilian employees to leave voluntarily, reducing the

need for forced separations.

“But there could definitely be some (force-outs) on the military side and reductions

in force on the civilian side. Not big across-the-board ones,” Hale added. “They’ll be focused.”

Still, he added, “it’s al-ways hard on the individu-als who have served well, in almost all cases, and suddenly find themselves being told (to) look for something else. That’s tough.”

Hale couldn’t quantify the size of an accelerated drawdown in 2014. It will depend in part on whether Congress, by January, provides some relief from a second year of automat-ic funding cuts required under the sequestration formula of the 2011 Bud-

get Control Act.Military leaders two

months ago delivered to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Congress a Strategic Choices Man-agement Review, showing options for the services if forced to accept a decade of sequestration. Deeper force cuts would be criti-cal to restoring readiness.

From a wartime peak of 570,000 active-duty soldiers, Army strength is sliding toward 490,000 under the five-year draw-down plan announced in January 2012. The new review shows the Army could still carry out its priority missions with 420,000 to 450,000 soldiers, and that full sequestration could require deeper cuts to as low as 380,000.

Marine Corps active strength is falling from a peak of 202,000, toward 182,000 by 2016. But to preserve unit readiness through sequestration, Gen. James Amos, the Marine Corps comman-dant, announced last month a new active-duty strength target of 174,000.

Hale said the Navy and Air Force likely will see more force cuts, too, and use involuntary

separations. He agreed that it is

fair to describe defense budgets as chaotic. Con-gressional budget fights the last four years have forced the DoD to conduct five shutdown-planning drills and operate under two six-month “continu-ing resolutions,” or CRs, when spending was frozen at previous-year levels.

Sequestration kicked in last March, forcing $37 bil-lion in automatic program cuts through September. In the past six months some defense civilian em-ployees were furloughed twice.

The new fiscal year began with a government shutdown followed by a four-month CR. This one lowered defense spending by $32 billion more and is due to expire Jan. 15. If a House-Senate budget conference can’t reach a debt-reduction deal to ease sequestration, defense spending could fall in 2014 a total of $52 billion.

“So chaos is a fair word to describe what’s happened to us,” Hale said.

When Congress al-lowed defense funds to

lapse Oct. 1, “it was very frustrating for the entire department,” caused “a colossal waste of time,” and deepened the readi-ness crisis caused by se-questration, Hale said.

“We damaged train-ing, especially in the Reserves. We had to cancel 100,000 drills a week. We wasted gov-ernment money, which is frustrating. I mean at least $600 million (wasted) for those four days when we had to furlough our civilians.”

He said civilian employees were hurt most. The shutdown came atop pay freezes, se-questration and an earlier furlough without pay.

“They are frustrated and angry and morale is low. And I don’t blame them,” Hale said.

Military personnel worked during the shut-down and got paid on time because of a special ap-propriation called the Pay Our Military Act. But se-questration continued to decimate their training.

“These young people come in to do a mission and train to do that mis-sion, and suddenly 12 combat-coded squad-rons in the Air Force had to stop flying,” Hale said. “The Army had to stop sending combat teams through combat training centers except for those actually going to

Afghanistan.”He agrees with Army

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, that force reten-tion problems will follow in the wake of training cuts. Those cuts likely will get worse in 2014.

Military readiness has fallen rapidly because of the abruptness of budget cuts, Hale said. Shrinking the force doesn’t save much money immediately, so operations and mainte-nance accounts have been hit hard.

In time, a smaller force should free up money to restore training cycles and begin to raise readi-ness again. In the inter-im, Hale said, “We will protect the units relatively close to deploy-ing but seriously degrade the readiness of the ones that aren’t.”

He compared the risk to buying high-deductible insurance.

“You hope you don’t ever have to use the policy. If you do, you’ll regret it,” Hale said. “If we ever had a major con-tingency, we’d see some units just not ready to go, or we’d have to send them in a degraded readiness situation, and that’s never the way the United States likes to work.”

Despite the budget tur-moil and many long days for Hale and staff since his nomination in Janu-ary 2009, he’s the Defense Department longest-serv-ing comptroller since the 1950s.

“I have to say that tech-nically it’s an interesting time for financial manage-ment,” Hale said.

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Out of place in the hot hu-midity of the Colombian jun-gle, two American Soldiers braved one of the world’s toughest competitions: the Colombian military’s Best Lancero contest.

Master Sgt. Marc Castle-berry and Sgt. 1st Class Jon Michael Hooten, both with the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forc-es Group (Airborne), were the first Americans ever invited.

They competed last month alongside 13 two-person Co-lombian teams, the “cream of the crop” of the Colombian military, Hooten said.

While being the first Americans invited to com-pete alongside some of the Colombian military’s best was a great privilege for two special forces Soldiers, it was also a reflection of more than two decades of U.S. presence in the region.

The invitation is a testa-ment to the growing relation-ship between t 7th Group and the Colombian government, which have been working hand-in-hand for over two de-cades, said Maj. Kevin Bow-man, one of the participants’ company commanders.

Participating helped show Colombians that Americans are willing to take on a physi-cal and mental challenge alongside them, he said.

“These are guys we work with down there and it got our faces out there,” said Master Sgt. Marc Castleberry, one of the participants. “It was good for them to see Americans participate in something Co-lombian-dominant. It showed we notice them, that we really care and want to make this situation work.”

Over four humid days, with highs in the mid-90s, the pair crossed rope bridges over 200-foot gorges, rappelled off tow-

ers, engaged in close-quarter combat, tested their marks-manship and completed

strenuous obstacle courses.“It was nonstop physical

fitness under extreme heat,”

Hooten said. They had been selected to compete with little notice and had little time to ac-climate, and the heat proved a formidable foe.

Once, they had to march 15 miles on roads winding through the mountains in combat gear. Half the teams had to drop out.

“That killed a lot of guys out there but was one of our strongest events,” said Cas-tleberry, a 42-year-old who has made running 50-mile races his hobby.

He and Hooten finished sixth out of 14 teams.

“There were times when your mind is telling you one thing and your body is telling you a different thing. You just have to keep pushing, pushing pushing, and not listen to your body,” he said.

Hooten said he hopes competing becomes a tradi-tion but that future teams will have more time to prepare than they did.

“Eventually I hope some-one gets first.”

The pair were selected

because they are certified Lanceros. Years ago, they completed the Colombian

military’s Lancero train-ing course, considered the toughest in the world, Cas-

tleberry said. They hadn’t met each oth-

er before.

“It’s personally an honor to be given the chance to do it,” said Hooten, who is 30. “Until

the day you die, that’s some-thing you can look back on and say, ‘I did that.’ ”

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Soldiers battled Colombia’s heat, humidity, mountains

U.S. ARmy

Army Master Sgt. Marc Castleberry participates in the Best Lancero competition in Columbia.

U.S. ARmy

Competitors of the Colombian Army’s Lancero Mas Fuerte Competition are briefed on the route of a 21-kilometer rucksack march Sept. 25, 2013 in Tolemaida, Colombia. Of the 14 teams participating, only eight completed the grueling course over mountainous jungle terrain.

U.S. ARmy

Above and below, Green Berets from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), receive certificates and memorabilia for competing in Colom-bian Army’s Lancero Mas Fuerte competition Sept. 27 in Tolemaida, Colombia. This was the first time American Soldiers who are qualified Lanceros, similar to U.S. Army Rangers, were invited to participate. Lancero Mas Fuerte is, similar to the U.S. Army’s “Best Ranger” competition.

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A Green Beret checks his weapon while a Lancero coach makes adjustments after firing during the Colombian Army’s Lancero Mas Fuerte competition.

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of Northwest Florida

Col. Robert M. Kirila pres-ents Chief Warrant Officer 5 Martin E. Wimsat with Charge of Orders during the Com-mand Chief Warrant Officer Change of Responsibility Oct. 30. Wimsat a native of Nelsonville, Ohio assumed the responsibility as the Com-mand Chief Warrant Officer for the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne). During the ceremony Chief Warrant 5 Tommy Austin, a native of Anderson, Ind., received relief of orders after spending more than 20 years with 7th Group. The Command Chief Warrant Officer serves as the Senior Warrant Officer Advisor on the Special Forces Group Command Team. Responsible for advising the Commander regarding all Combat Arms, Combat Support and Combat Service Support Warrant Officers assigned.

STAFF.SGT..RAMON.M.MARRERO.| U.S. Army

Command Chief Warrant Officer Change of Responsibility