Marine Forces Reserve units remain ready to augment and reinforce our active duty forces in any clime or place.
Marine Forces Reserve provides our nation with a force in readiness composed of individuals of exceptional dedication, ability and professionalism.
Force units train to the same rigorous standards as active duty Marines in order to achieve seamless integration with their active duty counterparts.
Upon enlisting in the Reserves, Marines typically obligate themselves for an eight-year period. After successfully completing basic training and their military occupational skill training they then train one weekend a month and two weeks a year.
Though training missions vary from unit to unit, the philosophy that ‘Every Marine is a Rifleman First’ permeates throughout the Force.
Marine Reserves are only mobilized upon order from the President of the United States, which makes them different from National Guardsmen who are activated by their state’s governor.
Reserve members are called to duty either as individuals or as a unit. Whether a mission requires one intelligence officer or an infantry battalion of several hundred, the Reserves are poised to rapidly mobilize to accomplish the mission. During the Persian Gulf War more than 31,000 members of the Marine Reserves were mobilized in order to augment and reinforce the active duty Marine Forces.
During peacetime, members of Marine Forces Reserve are routinely called upon to provide their active duty counterparts with operational tempo relief — notably, Operation Joint Guardian in Kosovo, UNITAS in South America and fulfilling security commitments in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Today’s modern Marine Forces Reserve is capable of combined operations with foreign militaries or in joint missions alongside any service branch of the U.S. military.
Marine Forces Reserve offers the nation a tremendous asset; trained and capable men and women who are Ready, Relevant and Responsive in order to accomplish any mission with which they are tasked.
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