JBCHARLESTONI10-243 governs the Augmentation Duty Program and installation-level personnel augmentation for short-term requirements.
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The publication defines augmentation and establishes the roles of commanders, the Augmentation Review Board, and augmentation coordinators. It requires procedures for validating requirements, submitting augmentation and exemption requests, assigning personnel, conducting call-ups, and maintaining readiness.
Applies to: It applies to all active duty military and civilian personnel on Joint Base Charleston.
Augmentation is used primarily to support temporary, short-term workload surges during exercise, contingency, wartime, and emergency situations. (paragraph 5)
Sustained use of augmentees will not be used to offset normal manpower shortfalls. (paragraph 5)
Unit commanders will exhaust all military personnel and skilled/trained DoD civilian resources within their organization prior to seeking augmentation from other organizations. (paragraph 5)
Units requesting to establish or eliminate augmentation requirements must gain approval from the ARB. (paragraph 5)
The request will include the number of personnel required, beginning date, estimated duration, and justification. (paragraph 2)