ARMY AL&T C O N F E R E N C E C A L L


Chief of Staff of the Army GEN George W. Casey Jr. tells the audience at the February AUSA Land Warfare Institute’s Winter Symposium and Exposition that Soldiers deploying after Oct. 1 could expect to have 24 months’ dwell time upon return. (U.S. Army photo by J.D. Leipold.)


Key Leaders Outline Priorities for Army in Transition Margaret C. Roth


W ith encouraging signs of progress for the force and sobering signs of tighter budgets, top


leaders in the Army, Army acquisition, and industry were cautiously optimistic about the years ahead, in remarks at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Institute of


Land Warfare’s Winter Symposium and Exposition from Feb. 23 to 25 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The Army “is at a key transition point,” said GEN George W. Casey Jr., Chief of Staff of the Army since April 2007. “We are coming out of a decade of war where we have fundamentally transformed the Army. And we are entering a period of continued war and, frankly, great uncertainty both at the strategic and the fiscal level.”


Casey is retiring in April after nearly 41 years of service. GEN Martin E. Dempsey, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command since December 2008, is Casey’s successor as Chief of Staff of the Army.


The Army is stronger for having been rebalanced over the past five to six years, Casey noted. It is “a well- equipped and combat-seasoned Total


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Force,” though still stretched by continued war. The question at this time of congressional debate over the Nation’s priorities is, “how do we sustain that balance and continue to build a balanced Army in a period of constrained resources?”


Steps Toward Success Casey cited a number of critical accom- plishments that have enabled the Army both to sustain the all-volunteer force


and to restore strategic flexibility in the face of competing demands:


• Finishing the personnel growth that President George W. Bush directed and a temporary end strength increase of 22,000 Soldiers, which allowed the Army to field 120,000 Soldiers without having to use stop-loss.


• Increasing time at home station for Soldiers between deployments— Starting with deployments in FY12,


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