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Jared Serbu, DoD Reporter, Federal News Radio

Over the last two decades, the Army has made decisions to make its reserve forces \"operational\" ones. The reserves participate in contingencies around the wor...

Federal News Network Staff

April 29, 2015 4:20 pm

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Over the last two decades, the Army has made decisions to make its reserve forces “operational” ones. The reserves participate in contingencies around the world even in peacetime, instead of having the Army only call them up in emergencies. But the chief of the Army Reserve says funding cuts are already beginning to relegate his force to the “strategic” reserve of decades gone by. Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu has the latest. Read Jared’s related story.