PILOT PROGRAM FOR ACTIVE COMPONENT SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES.

SEC. 414. PILOT PROGRAM FOR ACTIVE COMPONENT SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES. (a) Pilot Program Required.—During fiscal year 1993, the Secretary of the Army shall institute a pilot program to provide active component advisers to combat units, combat support units, and combat service support units in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve that have a high priority for deployment on a time-phased troop deployment list or have another contingent high priority for deployment. The advisers shall be assigned to full-time duty in connection with organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training such units. (b) Objectives of Program.—The objectives of the program are as follows: (1) To improve the readiness of units in the reserve components of the Army. 105 STAT. 1353 (2) To increase substantially the number of active component personnel directly advising reserve component unit personnel. (3) To provide a basis for determining the most effective mix of reserve component personnel and active component personnel in organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training reserve component units. (4) To provide a basis for determining the most effective mix of active component officer and enlisted personnel in advising reserve component units regarding organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training reserve component units. (c) Personnel To Be Assigned.—(1) The Secretary shall assign officers, warrant officers, and enlisted members to serve as advisers under the program. Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary shall determine the appropriate mix and numbers of such personnel to be assigned under the program. (2) The Secretary shall assign at least 1,300 officers as advisers to combat units and 700 officers as advisers to combat support units and combat service support units. (3) The number of officers performing duties under the program in fiscal year 1993 shall be counted for purposes of section 401(b)(1). (d) Action on the Basis of Program Results.—Based on the experience under the pilot program, the Secretary of the Army may expand or modify the program as he considers appropriate in order to increase the readiness and training of reserve component units for any period after September 30, 1993. Modifications in the program may not reduce the minimum number of officer advisers assigned below 2,000. (e) Army Reserve Component End Strengths for Fiscal Years 1994–1998.— (1) Subsection (b) of section 412 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (104 Stat. 1547; 10 U.S.C. 261 note) is amended— (A) by striking out “Fiscal Years 1992–1997.—” and inserting in lieu thereof ‘Tiscal Years 1994–1998.—and (B) by striking out the table in paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Fiscal Year Army Reserve Army National Guard 1994 12,006 23,579 1995 11,339 22,269 1996 10,672 20,959 1997 10,005 19,649 1998 9,341 18,340”. (2) Subsection (d) of such section is amended— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking out “fiscal year 1992” and inserting in lieu thereof “fiscal year 1994”; and (B) in paragraph (2), by striking out “fiscal years 1992 and 1993” and inserting in lieu thereof “fiscal year 1994”.