United States Army Reserve

The Army Reserve of the United States (English: United States Army Reserve, abgek.: USAR ) is the nationwide reserve component of the Army of the United States. They, together with the Army National Guard, the reserve component of the United States Army. It was founded in 1908 to keep a reserve of trained paramedics and field doctors.

Soldiers of the Army Reserve give their service on a part- time basis, in contrast to the full-time soldiers of the occupation army. The training of reserve soldiers, takes place as in the National Guard, on a weekend a month and two consecutive weeks in the year. Many reservists serve in associations, which consist exclusively of their own kind, while others selectively reinforce existing units of the U.S. Army.

In 2005, the number of Army Reserve members was 189,000 men and women.

Age limit for entry into the Army Reserve since March 2005, the 39th year of life for people with knowledge of Arabic and the 41st oldest member of all time is Dashiell Hammett, who knew as a 50 -year-old during the Second World War in the Aleutians service.

Obligation

All soldiers of the U.S. Army undertake to afford eight years service. Typically, the contract requires that two to four years' service must be served as a soldier in time, while the rest will be completed in the Army Reserve. However, there are also soldiers who serve the full eight years in the Army Reserve and provide full-time service exclusively for basic training.

Soldiers serving several years in the Army and their service obligation does not want to renew, are automatically added to the Army Reserve, and eight years of service are over.