United States Army
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2008)
Reporting Period: 2008
Environmental Metrics
Social Achievements
- Improved housing, built child development centers and restructured the support system for returning Wounded Warriors.
- Initiated programs to improve spouse employment, to ease the transition of high school students during moves and to extend in-state college tuition rates to military Families.
- Eliminated Soldiers’ out-of-pocket housing expenses.
- Implemented Force Stabilization to keep Soldiers in each assignment longer and synchronize their assignments to brigade combat team (BCT) rotational schedules.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Ensuring full spectrum readiness.
- Adapting to shifting current and future threats.
- Providing a quality of life for Army Families equal to their extraordinary service.
- Demand for forces exceeded sustainable supply, leading to 15-month deployments.
- Lack of strategic flexibility and operational depth to respond to other contingencies.
- Insufficient time between deployments and extreme wear and tear on equipment.
- Reserve Components assigned missions for which they were not originally intended nor adequately resourced.
Mitigation Strategies
- Progress in rebalancing its force while simultaneously fighting two wars.
- Implementation of spin-off technologies from Future Combat System.
- Improved housing, child development centers, and support for Wounded Warriors.
- Initiatives to improve spouse employment, student transitions, and in-state tuition for military families.
- Elimination of Soldiers’ out-of-pocket housing expenses.
- Force Stabilization to improve unit cohesion and readiness while reducing unit turbulence and uncertainty for Families.
- Army Force Generation Model (ARFORGEN) to reduce force management risk and improve unit stability and readiness.
- Reset program to restore units’ equipment readiness.
- Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) and Global Combat Support System – Army (GCSS-Army) to enhance logistics readiness.
- Conversion to a modular force to increase lethality, flexibility, deployability, and sustainability.
- Grow the Army initiative to increase end strength.
- Rebalancing initiative to maximize readiness and rotational availability while preserving homeland defense and homeland security capabilities.
- Re-designation of military positions as civilian slots to free uniformed personnel for the operating force.