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FRONTLINEU.S. Army Forces Command
October 13, 2017 | Volume VII, Issue 41
“Our job as professionals is to be ready now. I hope no one is mistaken, we are not in an interwar period”
– Gen. Robert B. Abrams Commanding General, FORSCOM
Association of the U.S. Army MG Robert G. Moorhead Breakfast
Oct. 9, 2017, Washington, D.C.
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On Point
Cybersecurity Theme - ‘Be Cyber Savvy’October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and marks the kickoff of the year-long Army Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign. The Army campaign is designed to increase readiness through improving awareness of cyber threats and incidents as well as their impact to Army missions.The Cybersecurity Awareness efforts also highlight how Soldiers and civilians need to respond in order to safeguard the Army. This campaign will expand awareness to help improve online safety and increase the resiliency of the nation in the event of a cyber incident.
By Drew Brooks, The Fayetteville Observer
The days of planned deployments, and the readiness cycles that supported them, are over.
Instead, Gen. Robert B. “Abe” Abrams said the Army must change the way it thinks about and works toward consistent levels of readiness.
“We have got to get our Army into a footing of being ready all the time,” he said.
The commanding general of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, Abrams is charged with ensuring Soldiers are prepared to fill the require-ments of combatant commanders around the world.
At the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington, he led a panel discus-sion on the changing face of Army readiness titled “Ready Now.”
Abrams said the nation no longer has the luxury of preparing for planned deployments. In-
stead, Soldiers could be needed on short notice to respond to one or more of the many threats facing the nation. The mindset, he said, is more akin to what the Army experienced during the Cold War, when units in Europe were on standby to deploy at a moment’s notice.
“We never knew when the call would come,” he said. “It was a mindset. We had to be ready all the time. We don’t have that right now in our Army.”
Joining Abrams on the panel were Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Martin, commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, Kansas; Maj. Gen. Joe Jarrard, adjutant general of the Geor-gia Army National Guard; Col. Christopher Norrie, chief of operations group at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California; and Elizabeth P. Van Winkle, who is performing duties of the as-sistant secretary of defense for readiness.
Gen. Robert B. Abrams, commanding general, U.S. Army Forces Command, speaks during the MG Robert G. Moorhead National Guard/Army Reserve Breakfast, Oct. 9, 2017, at the AUSA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Army photo by Bob Harrison, FORSCOM Public Affairs)
Abrams at AUSA: Army must be ‘Ready Now’
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Above A Soldier assigned to the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), distributes boxes of food to residents of Jayuga, Puerto Rico, Oct. 5, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Pablo N. Piedra)
Left Maj. Gema Robles, a native of Puerto Rico and executive officer, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade, talks with residents of an isolated village in Puerto Rico after delivering food, water and baby supplies, October 9, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Tyson Friar)
Right An Army National Guardsman looks after a child carrying water in Orocovis, Puerto Rico, Sept. 29, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joseacute Ahiram DiacuteazRamos)
Left Sgt. 1st Class Brenden Shannon, from 7th Infantry Division, observes his next objective during the Best Warrior Competition at Fort A.P. Hill, Va., Oct. 4, 2017. (U.S Army photo by Spc. Jada Owens)
Above An M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzer from C Battery, 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, fires Sept. 11, 2017, at Fort Hood, Texas. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Lloyd Bedford)
