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FORT KNOX, Ky. - Representatives from agencies across the Department of Defense gathered at the U.S. Army Human Resources Command for a three-day workshop on Funding Reimbursable Authority process and procedures Sept. 8 - 10.
The training was hosted by the Special Management Division Reserve Affairs Branch which works with organizations that need Soldiers with military intelligence training or experience to fill specific billets, said Denise Raymond, intelligence operations specialist with Special Management Division.
SMD helps organizations find the right Soldier, with the right set of skills, to fill their military intelligence needs. Although the division mostly works with Individual Mobilization Augumentee Soldiers, they will often work with Soldiers from the Individual Ready Reserve or troop program units, said Raymond.
“The organizations recruit who they want,” Raymond said. “It could be a TPU Soldier that want to go into an IMA, or an IRR that wants to go into one of the billets we manage. We make sure the Soldier is qualified and then we process it to make sure the I’s are dotted, the T’s are crossed and everything is done.”
The billets managed by the division can be in any branch of service. With each branch having its own procedures and ways of operating, difficulties in understanding can occur, said Master Sgt. Antonia Price, reserve affairs non-commissioned officer in charge, SMD RAB.
For instance, some agencies operate according to a calendar year whereas the Army operates on a fiscal year, said Price.
“As far as the Army goes, we do everything by fiscal year, whereas other branches of service can put a service member on orders and it can cross fiscal years,” said Price. “Orders that we process go from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, and that’s it.”
It was by addressing these key differences in how HRC operates that the SMD team planned to address by hosting the workshop.
Terrence Demery is the army reserve program manager for the Defense Intelligence Agency. He said he knew immediately he wanted to attend the workshop upon hearing about it.
The workshop taught him some important options to benefit his organization.
“We just learned a lot about some of the different sets of orders and what’s required for those different sets of orders that we haven’t previously used that would benefit our organizations,” said Demery.
This is the first time SMD has hosted a workshop for the agencies they work with, said Robert Casher, intelligence operations specialist, SMD RAB. They were pleased to see nearly all invited organizations chose to attend.
“We sent out a feeler to the agencies and said if we were to put this together, would you be interested and can you fund it because we don’t have the dollars to fund it?,” Casher said. “We got a good turnout. There are one or two agencies that didn’t send anybody. They said they’d loved to have come, but they didn’t have the money.”
Kaitlyn Davis, a staff operations and training specialist with the newly-activated 505th Military Intelligence Brigade, was glad her organization was able to find the funds for her to attend. She said the training enabled her to learn more about how other units operate compared to her experience with ‘straight Army Reserve units.’
“Being in my job, I deal with all kinds of random questions,” Davis said. “This information will be very useful to me later on, especially when we start talking budget and appropriations. I think it’s vitally important to understand how everybody else has to do business in order to be able to do your job well.”
| Date Taken: | 09.09.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 09.29.2015 15:46 |
| Story ID: | 177513 |
| Location: | FORT KNOX, KY, US |
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