Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, commanding general, U.S.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, commanding general, U.S. Army Reserve Command, pauses for a photo with a group of soldiers after the completion of a 5K road race commemorating the 105th Birthday celebration of the U.S. Army Reserve at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2013. Talley traveled from Washington, D.C., to visit troops deployed throughout Afghanistan and to celebrate the Army Reserve Birthday. The Army Reserve, founded in 1908 as a reserve corps of medical personnel, includes 148 different military occupation specialties and accounts for almost 20 percent of the Army’s total force. There are currently more than 6,000 Army Reserve citizen-soldiers deployed abroad.