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Command Sgt. Maj. Gregory Betty, Command Sergeant Major of the Army Reserve, traveled to the Republic of Korea to meet Soldiers, visit training facilities, and discuss the evolving role of reservists in today's Army.
During his visit, Betty toured a number of U.S. and ROK training areas and engaged with both Army reservists and active-duty Soldiers. He observed their training and brought an enthusiastic and welcoming energy, whether it was sitting comfortably in many of Camp Humphreys’ facilities or getting in the mud in the field. He observed Army Reserve Soldiers from the 290th Military Police Brigade work with ROK Army MPs conducting detainee operations training, and also engineers from the 310th Engineer Company complete a wet gap crossing exercise.
Additionally, Betty visited Eighth Army’s Army Reserve Engagement Cell and U.S. Forces Korea headquarters to meet with reserve Soldiers and command teams.
Betty sat down with both junior enlisted and senior commanders to discuss readiness and the integration of reservists into the Total Force. He emphasized the unique strengths that reservists contribute to the Army and their capacity to transfer civilian skills to military settings. He encouraged Soldiers from all walks of life to maintain readiness through fitness, skills training and education, encouraging leaders to promote their Soldiers and personally seeing to the promotion of one junior enlisted Soldier to sergeant.
Betty’s visit embodied the Army Reserve’s lines of effort through the building of combat-ready Soldiers and Formations, displayed in the field exercises he visited; mobilizing and deploying on time and at scale, shown with the ROK-U.S. alliance, our only combined division in the Army; adapting, transforming and modernizing through his emphasis on the strengths of young Soldiers; and investing in our Soldiers, Civilians, and Families, displayed when he engaged and actively listened to the feedback of the Soldiers in the field and encouraged them to use the resources available to reservists.
Col. Travis Uchacz, commander of the Army Reserve Engagement Cell, spoke at a reservist forum where Betty addressed the audience, referencing the opinions of Eighth Army commander, Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, regarding the performance of reservists compared to active component Soldiers in Korea.
"When walking around with [LaNeve], he said to me, ‘I can't tell who here is an Army reservist because I continue to meet Army reservists in my formations and I don't know who they are,’” said Uchacz. “To me, that was the best compliment I could ever have heard.”
Betty’s visit underscored the fact that the Army Reserve continues to evolve with their active duty counterparts, keeping the Total Force ready and integrated for any mission.
"We are innovating; we are adapting and modernizing," said Betty, when discussing the strengths of young people in the military now with their wealth of knowledge and access to information. "We will evolve COMPO 3 (reserves) as fast as COMPO 1 (active duty)."
| Date Taken: | 03.18.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 03.18.2025 23:09 |
| Story ID: | 493072 |
| Location: | CAMP HUMPHREYS, KR |
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