Army Reserve to weed out underachieving soldiers

General: Army Reserve to weed out underachieving soldiers
By Charlie Reed, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, March 13, 2010
CAMP ZAMA, Japan — Having evolved from a force of “last resort” to an oft-deployed and essential component of the military, the Army Reserve now needs restructuring.

And that includes purging its ranks of underachieving soldiers, the commander of the U.S. Army Reserve said Thursday.

“We have to reshape the Army Reserve,” Lt. Gen. Jack Stultz told a group of reservists during a town hall meeting at Zama. “It’s no longer a right to serve 30 years in the military. It’s a privilege.”

The Army Reserve has been successful in readying soldiers and restructuring units to support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but now it needs to “transform the personnel system,” he said.

Stultz is a retired Proctor and Gamble corporate executive who spent 26 years as a reserve transportation officer before going active duty in 2006 to take his current position at the Pentagon. He has deployed twice to Iraq — once during the Gulf War — and one time to Bosnia as a reservist.
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Army Reserve to weed out underachieving soldiers