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United States
Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Manpower and Reserve Affairs)
Seal of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs).
Incumbent
Agnes Gereben Schaefer
since December 23, 2022
StyleMadam Secretary
The Honorable
(formal address in writing)
Reports toSecretary of the Army
Under Secretary of the Army
SeatThe Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, United States
NominatorThe President with Senate advice and consent
Term lengthNo fixed term
Constituting instrument10. U.S.C. § 7016
Formation1968
First holderWilliam K. Brehm
Succession18th in SecDef succession by seniority of appointment
SalaryExecutive Schedule, Level IV[1]
WebsiteOfficial 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

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Picture Name Assumed office Left office President appointed by Secretary served under
William K. Brehm[6] 1968 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Stanley Rogers Resor
Donald G. Brotzman 1975 1977 Gerald R. Ford Martin R. Hoffman
Robert Nelson (acting) January 20, 1981 June 1981 Ronald Reagan John Otho Marsh, Jr.
Harry N. Walters[7] June 1981 January 5, 1983 Ronald Reagan John Otho Marsh, Jr.
Delbert Spurlock[8] 1983 1989 Ronald Reagan John Otho Marsh, Jr.
G. Kim Wincup[9] 1989 May 1992 George H. W. Bush Michael P. W. Stone
Robert S. Silberman[10] 1992 January 20, 1993 George H. W. Bush Michael P. W. Stone
Sara E. Lister June 10, 1994[11] November 15, 1997[12] Bill Clinton Togo D. West, Jr.
Patrick T. Henry[13] June 10, 1998 January 20, 2001 Bill Clinton Louis Caldera
Reginald J. Brown[14] August 3, 2001 January 20, 2005 George W. Bush Thomas E. White, Francis J. Harvey
Ronald J. James[15] October 1, 2006 January 20, 2009[16] George W. Bush Francis J. Harvey, Pete Geren
Thomas R. Lamont[17] June 26, 2009 October 1, 2014 Barack Obama Pete Geren, John M. McHugh
Debra S. Wada[18] October 2, 2014 January 20, 2017 Barack Obama John M. McHugh, Eric Fanning
Casey Wardynski[19] January 16, 2019 January 20, 2021 Donald Trump Mark Esper
Ryan D. McCarthy
Agnes Gereben Schaefer December 23, 2022 Incumbent Joe Biden Christine Wormuth

References

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  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. ^ a b 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
  7. ^ Secure Symbology Profile
  8. ^ "Wounded Vets on Government Agenda?", NPR, Dec. 21, 2007
  9. ^ ""G. Kim Wincup '66 Appointed Chairman of Defense Department's Reserve Forces Policy Board", DePauw University website". Archived from the original on 2006-12-20. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
  10. ^ Nomination of Robert S. Silberman To Be an Assistant Secretary of the Army", June 15, 1992
  11. ^ "The White House, "President Names Three to Uniformed Service Posts", Jan. 24, 1994". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
  12. ^ Sam Fulwood III and Paul Richter, "Army's Top Woman Quits Position Under Heavy Fire", L.A. Times, Nov. 15, 1997
  13. ^ ""DefenseWeb Names Former Assistant Secretary of Army to Board of Directors; Honorable Patrick T. Henry Brings over 20 Years of Defense Department, Army Personnel & Health Services, and Private Sector Experience to the Post", Business Week, Apr. 25, 2005". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
  14. ^ "Last Roll Call from Westpoint". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
  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.
  19. ^ "Trump nominations tracker: See which key positions have been filled so far". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
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