Army Reserve officers are bailing out, this general has a plan

You nailed it. We’re having such a hard time retaining talented Os in my BN, and it’s because of them being constantly indundated with nonsense outside of BA. The one thing that bothers me about this article is the pilot program to have AD LTCs taking BN CMD of a USAR BN. They know nothing about the USAR, so yeah we should allow them to take command rather than opening MTOE BN Command up to AGR LTCs. Makes zero sense.

She can give it the "ol' college try", but the Army Reserve folks I know are beyond burned out. And I don't know if anyone has the best answer to fix it.

Between "readiness" Death by Mandatory training, and due to a poorly implemented fitness test.
The reserves are not in a good place.

I feel that 40% of my duty now is focused on mandatory training or ensuring that soldiers have completed mandatory training. And another 40% is telling soldiers they need to be ready for an ACFT test that will more than likely change again and again. WHILE trying to figure out how not to injure soldiers while taking it. AND trying to field equipment and use 1/2-1 full day to administrate it. Which we would've used for our actual job training.

Honestly this is my opinion, but we have lost our way. What makes us the army is not a PT test or mandatory training. But our training to do our jobs/functions when deployed or in the defense of our nation.

There are better ways to teach our soldiers not to do the wrong things in a way that is interactive and part of the units training (sexual harassment, EO, cyber security, etc.) than forcing them to be in front of a computer all day or use the same training material over and over just to get a checkmark.

Anyhow I have way too many rants, not enough fixes in my mind to offer. I love the Army Reserve but the amount of bureaucracy being injected, makes me less and less motivate every day.

I only stay due to the soldiers I serve with and that's the only thing keeping me going at this time. My obligation is over and a year. I will continue to stay and try to be a good example for future soldiers that join. But if they keep going down this path, I might end up calling it quits too.