The Army National Guard’s top general said Wednesday that he would not lobby to expand the size of the increasingly busy force, but if top Army officials proposed adding new troops he “would accept that mission immediately.”
The Army’s decades-old tape test used to determine whether soldiers meet body fat standards could be on its way out when the service gets the results of a new body composition study launched Monday at Fort Bragg, N.C., Army officials said.
More soldiers chose to stay in the Army during fiscal 2021 than service leaders expected, helping them hit the service’s annual active-duty end-strength goal mandated by Congress, the Army said Wednesday.
The Army National Guard’s top general said Wednesday that he would not lobby to expand the size of the increasingly busy force, but if top Army officials proposed adding new troops he “would accept that mission immediately.”
At issue is language in the House-passed version of the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act the must-pass annual bill that sets Pentagon policy and spending priorities which would instruct the Defense Department to begin planning to provide “end-to-end electronic voting services” to troops deployed in locations with “limited or immature postal service.”