CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM

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Subject: CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES RESEARCH MEMORANDUM                   

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Folder Title: VARIOUS NAVAL MESSAGES FOLDER 11                                                                

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              applied to recalled reservists who were eligible to retire or separate
              because of completing their reserve obligation.

              Identification of Reservists

                   The limited nature of the recall meant that not all Program-32 units
              and not all specialists within these units were required to backfill the
              CONUS MTFS. However, the medical department initially believed that it
              lacked the authority to recall individuals from Program-32 units. To
              preserve the unit integrity of the reserve forces, section 673b allows
              individuals to be recalled only if they do not belong to units organized
              to serve as units. DOD issued guidance that a unit could contain as few
              as two members. This allowed the medical department to recall only those
              members of a Program-32 unit with a required naval officer billet classi-
              fication (NOBC) or naval enlisted classification (NEC). However, under
              this approach, all individuals with a required NOBC or NEC were identified
              for recall. Finally, DOD ruled that only the fleet hospitals were true
              units and other SELRES personnel could be treated as a pool of eligible
              individuals.

                   The Medical Department also found it difficult to use existing data
              systems to match individual SELRES personnel to a requirement. The Re-
              serve Training Support System (RTSS) is the information system designed to
              support mobilization of reservists. COMNAVRESFOR maintains this system to
              provide the day-to-day management of pay and personnel systems of SELRES
              personnel during peacetime. RTSS provides information to the Inactive
              Manpower and Personnel Information System (IMAPMIS), which serves as the
              Navy's database for all inactive reservists, fleet reservists, and retired
            personnel. During mobilization, personnel data from IMAPMIS is trans-
              ferred to the active-duty personnel databases.

                   No single comprehensive database provided a complete catalog of
              information necessary to identify individuals for recall. The recall
              process suffered from inaccurate or missing information relating to spe-
              cialty, eligibility, billet, and credentials. This made it difficult to
              identify reservists qualified to meet specific requirements. The initial
              plan for backfilling the CONUS MTFs identified 2,518 SYMS personnel,
              even though the MTFs requested only 2,075. Some SELRES personnel were
              carried in billets with specialties other than those for which they
              qualified. The number identified exceeded the number requested in anti-
              cipation of exemptions. Physicians posed particular problems because of
              difficulties identifying residents who were exempt from the recall.

                   According to 13], SEUMS residents should be assigned to primary-care
              billets until midway through their training program, at which point they
              may be assigned to specialty billets. In fact, many residents were pre-
              maturely assigned to billets with the specialty NOBC, inflating the count
              of specialists and overstating the number of physicians eligible for
              recall. Identification of residents excluded from the recall required
              screening and correcting of records. By 7 December, COMNAVSURFRESFOR had
              identified 540 residents in surface reserve programs, or approximately


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