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DESERT SHIELD/STORM LESSONS LEARNED REPORT #J
 
POC: J. HERBERTSON/SGR/6490 
 
TITLE: Cross Utilization during IRR and Retired Regular Mobilization 
 
OBSERVATION: We were unable to use IRR resources to fill requirements when 
retired regular resources were depleted. 
 
DISCUSSION: We were unable to fill all mobilization requirements due to 
unnecessary limitations. The requirement for 9416s, for example, was 17 
from the retired regular pool. We could only fill 3. Had there not been a 
limit of 1000 on the use of the IRR, we could have used the IRR resources 
to satisfy all the 9416 requirements. Additionally, there were still IMA 
resources available that should have been mobilized prior to PIM 
mobilization. 
 
LESSONS LEARNED: The system must have the flexibility to dip into any 
legal resource to obtain required skills. 
 
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS: Go to full mobilization authority in the beginning of 
a contingency to allow access to critical medical resources in the standby 
and retired Reserve. Allow cross utilization between resource pools when 
673 and 688 authority are given. Allow flexibility when determining any 
ceiling on numbers to be used from either resource. A more efficient way 
to determine a ceiling may be to create a ceiling for total 673 and 688 
resources rather than a cap for each. For example, rather than have the 
1000 cap on IRR and the 253 cap on the retirees, have the cap be a total 
of 1253 with replacements coming from both resources. All required 
Selected Reserve resources should be mobilized prior to PIM mobilization. 

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