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U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY PVT. JOANNA GAONA GOMEZ
416th THEATER ENGINEER COMMAND Modernizing tomorrow’s Reserve engineers today
Polish and U.S. Soldiers from the 416th TEC stand in formation during the closing ceremony of Resolute Castle 2019, at the Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland, Aug. 1, 2019. Resolute Castle, a multinational training exercise, promoted interoperability and resulted in the construction of two health care facilities, two administrative buildings, and one fuel point.
BY SGT. 1st CL ASS JASON R. PROSEUS
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very organization must look to how it will be shaped in the future in order to stay relevant. With companies, it’s how they will maintain increased profits; for charitable organizations, it’s how they can better help those in need; for military organizations, it’s how they will fight future battles, how they will defend against foes that are becoming more advanced. The 416th Theater Engineer Command (TEC), with vision from its higher up – “the most capable combat-ready, and lethal federal Reserve force in the history of the nation,” said Lt. Gen. Charles D. Luckey, chief, U.S. Army Reserve and commanding general, U.S. Army Reserve Headquarters, “must move forward in a modern direction.” Located in Darien, Illinois, the 416th TEC is a unique unit, with only one other like it in the U.S. Army, the 412th TEC in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Both commands are continuously evolving to best prepare themselves to fight in the next conflict. The 416th, as a headquarters, trains continuously to improve its decision-making and planning capabilities. Because, when called
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upon, the 416th will deploy, provide theaterwide engineer support, and serve as the senior engineer headquarters for the theater Army. Their job is to set the theater; to take a constant flow of situations, and provide engineer plans, solutions, and courses of action for each. The 416th, as a command including more than 12,000 Soldiers from the western United States and Washington, D.C., must “provide trained, equipped, and ready Soldiers and cohesive units to meet the nation’s requirements at home and abroad,” said Luckey. The Force Management (FM) cell and 416th TEC operations work diligently in order to take this mission and vision focus, and develop the 416th toward the future, and how it will be accomplished then. They answer how the 416th TEC will be trained, equipped, and ready tomorrow.
TRAINED The 416th and its units must be able to work with and fight alongside their active-duty counterparts. The operations team (G3) plans and coordinates exercises that enable units to integrate with active-duty brigade
