Army Reserve Today

In this episode of Army Reserve Today: 2014 Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition: Army Reserve Today takes you inside for a look at the winners and competitors during the intense competition to determine who the Army Reserve's Soldier and Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year, our "Best Warriors," held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ.

In this episode of Army Reserve Today: Army Reserve pilots transport

high-ranking officials around the Afghanistan area of operation. Army

Reserve dentist and medics provide care for rural communities in the

mountains of North Carolina. We take you inside this year's WAREX exercise

held at Fort Hunter-Liggett California and show the many aspects of training

Army Reserve Soldiers go through here every summer. All of this and more on this episode of Army Reserve Today.

The January 2015 edition of Army Reserve Today.

April 2015 episode of the Army Reserve's quarterly video news magazine.

In this edition of Army Reserve Today

Balancing the force.the challenges of reducing manpower in a changing

defense environment while helping those affected.

Full court press..focusing army reserve leaders on the issues impacting

personnel retention: it truly is everyone's business.

Promoting army reserve capabilities...keeping an operational edge by

engaging army service component commands...and showing them what we bring to

the table..

Army reserve soldiers come together from across america to transform desert

terrain into a airfield for a major army training center.

USARPAC Army Reserve engagement cell: a new way to ensure army reserve

operational readiness is maintained in the pacific while providing regional

support to the active component...

CSTX: one combat support training exercise trains army reserve soldiers,

units and commands in their war time missions, while working with active

army components, national guard soldiers, and other services elements...

Doing it old school: when modern technology fails, employees at an army

reserve pay center roll up their sleeves and process soldiers pay

manually...taking care of their troops.

An airfield blooms in the desert: twelve army reserve engineer units build

an airfield at the national training center.

Keep on trucking: an army reserve unit from Maine heads north of the border

to help the Canadian army transport equipment across a continent.

Building relationships: an army reserve soldier finds some new friends in

exotic Thailand while participating in a major multinational exercise.

Learning from the past: soldiers from one army reserve command spend time

learning about their military heritage on a historic American battlefield.

July 2015 episode of Army Reserve Today, the quarterly video news magazine of the U. S. Army Reserve. Inside this episode.

The best of the best...All Army Reserve Soldiers are super troopers,

making the process to name our NCO and enlisted best warriors a major challenge.

Veterans, service members and supporters participated in the Chicago

- Honor the Fallen Ruck March, a 22-mile. The march was held in honor of the 22 military veterans who commit suicide every day and the hundreds more who

kill themselves while still in service, and those who struggle with

post-traumatic stress disorder.

Full Court Press..Engineers lead the way, retaining quality Soldiers

in their units. We take a look at two successful units who make retention

everyone's business and why that works so well.

Making a maximum effort..Army Reserve mortuary affairs specialists

take part in the first ever mortuary affairs exercise. Learning to recover

and render honors to our dead with dignity, reverence and respect.

Army Reserve Soldiers deployed this spring to El Salvador to work

along side Canadian, Brazilian and host-nation forces providing

humanitarian and civic assistance. Medical personnel from the 349th combat support Hospital of Bell, California, provided treatment at clinics in El Coco, El Salvador.

Soldiers..kids..and books. It was the perfect combination. One

Atlanta area army reserve unit is looking to extend the month of the

military child into a year long event.

October 2015 episode of Army Reserve Today, the quarterly video news

magazine of the U. S. Army Reserve. Inside this episode.

. Helping at right here at home.Army Reserve medics provide for

communities in need.

. When disaster strikes...chemical company soldiers prepare for worst

case scenarios to provide their life saving skills when time matters most.

. Combat engineers from the Army Reserve and Army National Guard go

head to head competing during this summer's 'Best Sapper' competition at

Fort Chaffee, Ark.

. Army Reserve soldiers and units train alongside active duty units in

an effort to share knowledge in a unique training environment only found at

river assault events.

. GLOBAL MEDIC is the largest medical exercise of its kind, and Army

Reserve Soldiers worked alongside British Army Reservists in a joint

environment to ensure they are the best prepared when they deploy.

. Assaulting villages and staging rescue missions isn't exactly what

comes to mind when one thinks of paralegals, but that is just what these

Army Reserve legal specialists did this summer at Fort McCoy, Wis., for

their annual training.

January 2016 episode of Army Reserve Today, the quarterly video news magazine of the U. S. Army Reserve. Inside this episode…A new interim Command Sgt. Maj., we sit down with Cmd. Sgt. Maj. Wills to get his vision for the future…Operation Toy Drop, Soldiers from around Fort Bragg donate toys to help children in their local communities for a chance to earn foreign jump wings…Operation Toy Trot, Soldiers and Airmen run in an unique 5k in support of Operation Toy drop…these stories and more in this episode of Army Reserve Today.

April 2016 episode of Army Reserve Today, the quarterly video news magazine of the U. S. Army Reserve. Inside this episode.

* Active shooter training: How Army Reserve, U.S. Marines Corps and civilian police forces come together to train for active shooter scenarios.

* Ichi Dan: Facilitated by Army Reserve Engagement Team Japan, Japanese reserve candidates experience unique training with the U.S. Army Japan and learn the real meaning of 'one team'.

* Security Forces Training: An Army Reserve unit from West Virginia trains side by side with Kosovo Security Forces at the first K-S-F Military Police Instructor's Course.

* Looking to the east: Leaders from the 200th Military Police Command visit Camp Zama, Japan, to help influence missions and its capabilities in the Pacific.

* New construction: Leaders turn a requirement into an opportunity for Army Reserve Soldiers in Mattydale, New York.

* Cooking and competition: Army Reserve Soldiers test their cooking skills in a field environment while competing for the Philip A. Connelly Award.

* Remembering the fallen: Many gather to honor those who lost their lives in the worst attack on allied forces in Desert Storm.

* Strong Bonds: Army Reserve Soldiers work on relationship skills and have a little fun at a Strong Bonds marriage workshop.

Inside the July 2016 episode of Army Reserve Today, the quarterly video news magazine of the U.S. Army Reserve:

• A new leader at the top….LTG Charles Luckey is the 33rd Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command.

• Best warrior competition…U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers compete in a grueling week-long event testing their knowledge and skills. We’ll tell you who will go on to represent the Army Reserve at the Department of the Army Best Warrior Competition later this year.

• Resiliency and the warrior…how resiliency training is used to enhance mental toughness and prepare U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers for physical tasks.

• Behind the scenes….we’ll highlight one individual and her role in kicking off the U.S. Army Reserve Command’s 2016 Best Warrior Competition.

• Exercise ANAKONDA…we’ll take an inside look at the first multi-national exercise bringing 24 nations and how this helped build interoperability between forces.

• Farewell to arms: Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley, 32nd Chief of Army Reserve, hosts his final web cast town hall meeting and speaks about his four years as chief.

• British special forces invade Fort Hunter Liggett, CA, as part of an airborne training exercise.

• U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers conduct bilateral civil affairs training with Japan’s Ground Defense Force.

• U.S. Army Reserve engineers build a tower at Joint Base mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ, …for archers.

October 2016 episode of Army Reserve Today, the quarterly video news magazine of the U. S. Army Reserve. Inside this episode.

. The road to Army Best Warrior: The Army Reserve's NCO and Soldier of the Year along with the runner ups from our competition train up in Montana to meet the challenges of the Department of the Army's Best Warrior at Fort Lee, Va.

. Never leave a fallen comrade...we'll show you how Army Reserve Soldiers with mortuary affairs units train to care for remains and fulfill their duty despite the sensitive nature of their operations.

. Army Reserve engineers had the unique opportunity to clear the way for infantry Soldiers by building an assualt bridge on Lake Sandy at Fort McCoy, Wis.

. An Army Reserve Soldier from Millington, Tenn., recently competed for team U.S.A. in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games pole vaulting event.

. Army reserve Military Police conduct realistic gunnery training to improve readiness, capabilities and their lethality.

. An Army Reserve pharmacy technician recently got the chance to carry out a two-week mission that allowed her to exercise her passion for people and the job.

. An Army Reserve dental assistant got the opportunity to provide dental care to the people of the Crow Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

. Operation River Assault is a joint training exercise that helps Army Reserve Soldiers improve unit readiness. This year, the 467th Engineer battalion from Millington, Tenn., took the lead at Fort Chaffee, Ark., and built a temporary bridge for a river crossing.

. Army Reserve parachute riggers are experts at delivering the goods...but not in the usual way.