Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

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Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
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Seal of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs).
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Incumbent
Agnes Gereben Schaefer
since December 23, 2022
Style Madam Secretary
The Honorable
(formal address in writing)
Reports to Secretary of the Army
Under Secretary of the Army
Seat The Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States
NominatorThe President with Senate advice and consent
Term length No fixed term
Constituting instrument 10. U.S.C. § 7016
Formation1968
First holder William K. Brehm
Succession 18th in SecDef succession by seniority of appointment
Salary Executive Schedule, Level IV [1]
Website Official website

The Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), abbreviated as ASA(M&RA), is a civilian official in the United States Department of the Army.

U.S. law provides that there shall be five Assistant Secretaries of the Army "appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." [2] "One of the Assistant Secretaries shall be the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. He shall have as his principal duty the overall supervision of manpower and reserve component affairs of the Department of the Army. [3] Pursuant to United States Army General Order No. 3, the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) supervises Army strategy, policy, programs, and compliance related to functions such as recruiting, readiness and mobilization, civilian and military manpower, medical and health affairs, family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation, the review of soldier records, force structure policy, manpower analysis, the Army-wide Equal Employment Opportunity Program and critical matters pertaining to Reserve Affairs. [4]

The office can be traced to 1950, when United States Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray decided to centralize manpower issues for civil, military, and reserve personnel under one individual, with the position being elevated to Assistant Secretary when manpower issues proved to be a problem during the course of the Korean War. [5] The office was then abolished in 1961, with its duties transferred to the Office of the Under Secretary of the Army, but then re-established - this time by statute - in 1968. [5]

List of assistant secretaries

PictureNameAssumed officeLeft office President appointed by Secretary served under
William K. Brehm [6] 19681969 Lyndon B. Johnson Stanley Rogers Resor
Donald Glenn Brotz.jpg Donald G. Brotzman 19751977 Gerald R. Ford Martin R. Hoffman
Robert Nelson (acting)January 20, 1981June 1981 Ronald Reagan John Otho Marsh, Jr.
Harry N. Walters [7] June 1981January 5, 1983 Ronald Reagan John Otho Marsh, Jr.
Portrait of Delbert L. Spurlock Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Army.jpg Delbert Spurlock [8] 19831989 Ronald Reagan John Otho Marsh, Jr.
G Kim Wincup 1.jpg G. Kim Wincup [9] 1989May 1992 George H. W. Bush Michael P. W. Stone
Robert S. Silberman [10] 1992January 20, 1993 George H. W. Bush Michael P. W. Stone
SaraE.Lister.jpeg Sara E. Lister June 10, 1994 [11] November 15, 1997 [12] Bill Clinton Togo D. West, Jr.
Patrick T Henry.gif Patrick T. Henry [13] June 10, 1998January 20, 2001 Bill Clinton Louis Caldera
Reginald J Brown.jpg Reginald J. Brown [14] August 3, 2001January 20, 2005 George W. Bush Thomas E. White, Francis J. Harvey
Ronald J James.jpg Ronald J. James [15] October 1, 2006January 20, 2009 [16] George W. Bush Francis J. Harvey, Pete Geren
Lamont-250.jpg Thomas R. Lamont [17] June 26, 2009October 1, 2014 Barack Obama Pete Geren, John M. McHugh
Debra Wada.jpeg Debra S. Wada [18] October 2, 2014January 20, 2017 Barack Obama John M. McHugh, Eric Fanning
E. Casey Wardynski official photo (cropped).jpg Casey Wardynski [19] January 16, 2019January 20, 2021 Donald Trump Mark Esper
Ryan D. McCarthy
Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Assistant Secretary of the Army.jpg Agnes Gereben SchaeferDecember 23, 2022Incumbent Joe Biden Christine Wormuth

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References

  1. ↑ 5 U.S.C.   § 5315
  2. ↑ 10 U.S.C. § 3016(a)
  3. ↑ 10 U.S.C. § 3016(b)
  4. ↑ Website of the OASA(MRA) Archived January 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 History of ASA(M&RA) from website Archived February 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Robert K. Griffith, Jr., The U.S. Army's Transition to the All-Volunteer Force, 1968-1974 (Center of Military History, 1997), p. 44
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  15. ↑ Profile of James from Dept. of the Army Archived December 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ See April 2009 Memo from James Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Profile of Lamont from Dept. of the Army Archived February 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ "Profile of Wada from Dept. of the Army". Archived from the original on 2014-11-23. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
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