December 2010 AUSA NEWS 

December AUSA News cover

Vol. 34, No. 2

Listed below are the articles and features of our December 2010 issue of AUSA News. Please visit the AUSA News Archive for online access to previous issues.

12/1/2010

Mullen calls Army ‘center of gravity of our military’

The Army is the "center of gravity of our military," but the nation needs to act resolutely to ensure that it can manage the strains that the service has experienced in nine years of combat, said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

12/1/2010

Army awards 2,579 ROTC scholarships

The Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps awarded 2,579 four-year scholarships to incoming members of the class of 2014.

12/1/2010

Army leaders devise cost-conscious approach

To adjust to the coming era of budget constraints, the Army is working to convert its commanders and managers from a "budget culture," where they spent whatever funds they were given, to a "cost culture," in which they determine what everything costs and what benefit the Army gains from it, a panel of Army leaders.

12/1/2010

Army Reserve continues evolution

The Army Reserve has evolved internally over the past year while in the midst of becoming more aligned with the regular Army as an operational force, and Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz is keeping an eye on the future as well to determine what role the Army Reserve will take when deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan decline.
Guard soldier in Africa

12/1/2010

Citizen-soldiers impacting Africa Command mission

The commanding general of Africa Command told attendees at the Maj. Gen. Robert G. Morehead Guard and Reserve Breakfast, "What you are doing is important and it matters."