This April 23rd marks the 105th birthday of the U.S. Army Reserve. On that day in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into public law Senate Bill 1424, creating the Medical Reserve Corps. It authorized the Army to acquire a reserve pool of medical officers who could be ordered to active duty in the event of an emergency, a step whose importance the Medical Department authorities described after World War I as "impossible to overestimate."
The National Defense Act of 3 June 1916... read more
This April 23rd marks the 105th birthday of the U.S. Army Reserve. On that day in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into public law Senate Bill 1424, creating the Medical Reserve Corps. It authorized the Army to acquire a reserve pool of medical officers who could be ordered to active duty in the event of an emergency, a step whose importance the Medical Department authorities described after World War I as "impossible to overestimate."
The National Defense Act of 3 June 1916 established the Officers Reserve Corps. Then, on 4 June 1920, the National Defense Act Amendments established the Organized Reserve.
Throughout the last twenty years the Army Reserve has transitioned from a strategic force of last resort to an indispensable, operational force of first responders, joining with the active Army to defend the nation's national security. show less