 There are countless speed bumps that need to be navigated by military leaders and individual soldiers to ensure unit and personal success in the Army Reserve. You may have a deadline vehicle that you need to have up and running for an important training event. There's an upcoming promotion board and you want to ensure your records are up to date so you can pin on another stripe. Alternately, you're ready to retire after a fulfilling 20 years in uniform and you want to make sure everything is in place for a smooth transition. Maybe the weather just dumped a foot of snow at the Army Reserve Center and you need to have it removed quickly so people can safely come to work. What if your unit is coming to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin for annual training and you don't want to pay the expense of transporting vehicles there and back? When you encounter these speed bumps, where do you turn? The 88th Readiness Division. The 88th RD provides best-in-class services that enable mission readiness for supported commands in a 19-state region. As the largest of the four RDs in the Army Reserve in terms of the number of states supported, the 88th RD's area of operation runs from Ohio West to Oregon and Washington State. The 88th Readiness Division can fix vehicles and train the mechanics who turn the wrenches, check soldier personnel records to ensure their current, provide retirement services, get a contract in place for snow removal and other facility maintenance, and provide vehicles for unit training let Fort McCoy through the 88th RD draw yard. But that's not the end of the services the 88th RD provides. Other examples of services include medical administrative support, funding, physical security, environmental compliance, safety, legal, religious support, and force management. You may not know that the 88th RD manages 14 local training areas across 11 states covering 7,795 acres. Local training areas provide soldiers opportunities to perform in their jobs, train close to home, and make the most out of battle assembly by offering units the use of facilities, grounds, and training venues to include convoy operations, organizational maintenance, engineering equipment dig sites, as well as field training exercises. The 88th RD also serves as a senior geographic command for the 19-state region and is responsible for coordinating and executing geographic Army Reserve mission requirements for such things as floods, earthquakes, fires, and man-made disaster. The 88th Readiness Division's priorities serve to guide our actions every day. These priorities are people, readiness, and transformation. First, the 88th RD continues to invest in the people who ensure that supported commands receive the programs and services they expect on time every time. We have our ear to the ground to ensure the customers' voices heard and expectations are met. Second, the 88th RD worked diligently to ensure high levels of individual and unit readiness and support of functional command. We focus on base operations so functional commands don't have to, bringing up precious time to focus on readiness. Third, the 88th RD is continuously transforming to ensure we're structured properly to emphasize people and readiness in all that we do. That means embracing a culture of innovation. We do new things or old things in a new way. The Army is moving toward initial multi-domain operations capability by 2028 and full integration into the MDO environment by 2035. The 88th RD stands ready to adapt and rise to these challenges. All the while, continuing to provide best-in-class services and enabling mission readiness for our subordinate units and supported commands. We will continue enabling readiness today and always.