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“I’m extremely proud of the team at Keller for coming together during this pandemic and taking care of the West Point community.”, U.S. Army STAND-TO! grisales.claudia@stripes.com FORSCOM also commands three Army corps: I Corps at Fort Lewis, Washington; III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas; and XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Upon graduation from high school, he completed OSUT at Fort Benning, Georgia and was awarded MOS 11B. In this position, he or she is in charge of approximately 780,000 Active Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard soldiers – … [6] She was appointed by FORSCOM commander General Robert B. Abrams who said the decision took "less than a second". Abrams was well known in the Army for his use of Twitter to interact with soldiers on a range of issues. Its mission is to provide active, reserve and National Guard troops to combatant commanders around the globe. Lt. Gen. Michael X. Garrett, who leads U.S. Army Central at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, has been nominated to take charge of U.S. Army Forces Command, a congressional staffer confirmed Tuesday. It provides expeditionary, regionally engaged, campaign-capable land forces to combatant commanders. Forces Command. His previous assignments include chief of staff of U.S. Central Command and commanding general of U.S. Army Alaska, according to the Army. Their responsibilities varied over time, but from the 1980s to the mid-1990s covered Reserve Component training supervision. First U.S. Army is responsible for training, mobilization and deployment support to Reserve Component and National Guard units in FORSCOM. Garrett has served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.