[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5559]
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 SENATE RESOLUTION 820--HONORING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RESERVE 
 OFFICERS ASSOCIATION, NOW KNOWN AS THE RESERVE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA

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

                              S. Res. 820

       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, D.C.;
       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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