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Guard and Reserve Personnel: Fiscal, Security, and Human Capital Challenges Should be Considered in Developing a Revised Business Model for the Reserve Component
The U.S. military has been continuously engaged in foreign conflicts for over two decades. The strains that these deployments, the associated increases in operational tempo, and the general challenges of military life affect not only service members but also the people who depend on them and who support them as they support the nation â€" their families. Family members provide support to service members while they serve or when they have difficulties; family problems can interfere with the ability of service members to deploy or remain in theater; and family members are central influences on whether members continue to serve. In addition, rising family diversity and complexity will likely increase the difficulty of creating military policies, programs and practices that adequately support families in the performance of military duties. Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society examines the challenges and opportunities facing military families and what is known about effective strategies for supporting and protecting military children and families, as well as lessons to be learned from these experiences. This report offers recommendations regarding what is needed to strengthen the support system for military families.
You requested that we review DOD's 2006 report on predatory lending practices. Specifically, we evaluated DOD's approach and support in preparing its mandated report on predatory lending practices. This report documents findings that we briefed to your offices on August 17, 2007. Enclosure I contains the briefing slides we presented. This briefing contributes to a larger GAO body of work on compensation and financial conditions of military personnel (see the list of related GAO products at the end of this report). In conducting our review, we limited the scope of our work to the types of loans that DOD identified as being predatory in its mandated 2006 report. We examined legislation that mandated the DOD report and regulations such as government-wide and DOD-wide standards for data quality. In addition to reviewing DOD's predatory lending report and the reports cited in that study, we reviewed GAO, Congressional Research Service, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of the Inspector General reports on related issues. We developed a tool to systematize our analysis of the quality of research studies and data sources DOD used as support in its report. We interviewed representatives and obtained documents from DOD and the federal agencies, military charity organizations, and consumer groups involved in the preparation of DOD's report as well as other groups whose perspectives were different from those provided in the DOD report.