[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 820 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 820

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the Reserve Officers Association, now 
             known as the Reserve Organization of America.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 29, 2022

    Mr. Blunt (for himself and Mr. Peters) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Honoring the 100th anniversary of the Reserve Officers Association, now 
             known as the Reserve Organization of America.

Whereas the Reserve Officers Association was founded on October 2, 1922, by the 
        General of the Armies John J. ``Black Jack'' Pershing and other veterans 
        at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC;
Whereas the founders of the Reserve Officers Association, who were veterans of 
        World War I, believed that the United States was vulnerable to returning 
        to the state of unreadiness that preceded World War I and that they 
        needed to prevent the same level of unreadiness in future conflicts;
Whereas the Reserve Officers Association was chartered by President Harry S. 
        Truman, one of the early members of the Reserve Officers Association, in 
        the Act entitled ``An Act to Incorporate the Reserve Officers 
        Association of the United States'', approved June 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 
        312, chapter 431);
Whereas the congressional charter established the Reserve Officers Association, 
        now known as the Reserve Organization of America, ``to support a 
        military policy for the United States that will provide adequate 
        national security'';
Whereas the Reserve Organization of America is the only all ranks, all services, 
        military service organization for the Reserve and National Guard, also 
        known as the Reserve components, in the United States;
Whereas, in 2022, the Reserve Organization of America celebrates 100 years of 
        serving the servicemembers and veterans of the uniformed services and 
        the Reserve components, their families, and reserve employers; and
Whereas the Reserve Organization of America was instrumental in the adoption of 
        the Reserve Forces Bill of Rights and Vitalization Act (Public Law 90-
        168; 81 Stat. 521), which, among other measures, established the 
        Selected Reserve in each service, provided adequate fiscal and equipment 
        support for the Selected Reserve, and established assistant secretaries 
        for reserve affairs and designated a general or flag officer responsible 
        for reserve affairs for each Armed Force: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) recognizes that the Reserve Organization of America is 
        a respected advocate for national security and readiness;
            (2) honors the vital role the Reserve Organization of 
        America has played throughout the organization's 100 years of 
        service in strengthening the strategic and operational role of 
        the Reserve components of the United States military; and
            (3) supports the Reserve Organization of America's focus on 
        the readiness of the Reserve components and the care of those 
        who serve in the Reserve and National Guard, their families, 
        and veterans of the Reserve components.
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