Transcript: GATES DELEGATES TRAINING DECISION TO ARMY SECRETARY

INDSTRY GROUP 91
Regulatory Intelligence Data
11-09-2009
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has delegated
the authority to order up to 45 days of pre-mobilization training for reserve-component
soldiers to the secretary of the Army. The change will allow Army Secretary
John M. McHugh to authorize "contiguous training" for selected National
Guard and Army Reserve units. The delegation authority will last for one
year. The term refers to inactive duty training or annual training conducted
immediately before units are mobilized for federal service. "This whole
request originated with the state and territory adjutants general," said
Dennis M. McCarthy, assistant secretary of ...

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