14 Facts About Army Secretary

1. US Army Secretary is beginning to use a more modern tent called the deployable rapid assembly shelter.

2. US Army Secretary currently consists of 10 active divisions and one deployable division headquarters as well as several independent units.

3. US Army Secretary is made up of three components: the active component, the Regular Army; and two reserve components, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve.

4. US Army Secretary is divided into several branches and functional areas.

5. The US Army Secretary led the combined US and allied invasion of Iraq in 2003.

6. The US Army Secretary is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the Secretary of the Army and by a chief military officer, the Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) who is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

7. The United States Army Secretary has not had a 5 Star General since Sept 22 1950.

8. The US Army Secretary has utilized its stop-loss policy and has required more of its combat personnel to serve more tours of duty than before, due to the need for experienced personnel.

9. The Army Secretary played a role in the invasions of Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989 (Operation Just Cause).

10. At its greatest size the National Army Secretary had more than six million men out of which 2 million fought on western front.

11. The Army Secretary took part in the US and allied 2003 invasion of Iraq.

12. The Army Secretary was under the control of the War Department until 1947, and since then the Defense Department.

13. Until the 1940s, the Army Secretary was relatively small in peacetime.

14. The Army Secretary is a member of the Defense Acquisition Board.