The objective of this audit was to determine whether Service members in Reserve Components, mobilized in support of the DoD’s global mission requirements, received sufficient dwell periods in accordance with DoD and Service-level policies.
Dwell is the amount of time that Service members spend at their home station between mobilizations. To prevent the overexposure of personnel to combat and operational deployments, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness issued a memorandum in November 2013 that established the Secretary of Defense’s goal for the mobilization-to-dwell ratio for Reserve Components as 1-to-5 or greater, and the mobilization-to-dwell ratio minimum threshold as 1-to-4.