This Torchbearer Issue Paper examines First Army's role in helping ensure the readiness of the total Army to advise and assist in training all Army National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers in the continental United States during premobilization periods to meet combatant commanders' requirements worldwide. The most significant challenge for today's operational reserve is to sustain readiness to provide combatant commanders with adaptive units that are capable across the full range of military operations. Much of First Army's priority of effort since 9/11 has been to conduct mobilization and demobilization operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn, training more than 750,000 personnel in support of these and other named contingency operations.

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Introduction -- Background -- Supporting total Army readiness -- Growing trainers while supporting the current fight -- Integrating 21st century training across the Army -- The way ahead.