Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, commanding general, U.S. Army

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, commanding general, U.S. Army Reserve Command, Col. Alberto Rivera, chief of Army Reserve Affairs, U.S. Forces Afghanistan and Maj. Jared Corsi, aide-de-camp, prepare to board a helicopter after visiting the International Security Assistance Forces headquarters during a trip to Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 26, 2013. The Army Reserve, founded in 1908 as a reserve corps of medical personnel, includes 148 different military occupation specialties and accounts for almost 20 percent of the Army’s total force. There are currently more than 4,000 Army Reserve citizen-soldiers deployed abroad.