Fort Riley garrison command team signs strategic plan -- 2030

FORT RILEY, Kan. -- With the stroke of three pens; Col. John Lawrence, Fort Riley garrison commander, Timothy Livsey, Deputy to the garrison commander and Command Sgt. Maj. Andrew Bristow II, Fort Riley garrison senior noncommissioned officer, initiated the Garrison Strategic Plan March 9, after a small ceremony inside the Garrison Headquarters building.

"I'd like to take a moment to thank all the directors and all the key players," Lawrence said. "We will have the Strategic Plan 2030 to take us out and lead the workforce to 2030."

The plan discusses the future role of the garrison, and ensures the installation's continued ability to accomplish its enduring mission -- to build and maintain combat-ready forces.

It also includes the Installation Management Command commanding general priorities; Infrastructure, Emergency Services, Support to Training, Soldier Programs and Family Programs.

"As we move forward on this, this is bottom-line our vision," Lawrence said. "Our vision is support. That is our key-main-goal here, and by supporting we are enhancing readiness. IMCOM is here to support, and you do that very well. You increase the readiness of that division and any other Soldier that comes through here, rather it be National Guard, Reserve, Air Force. Actually we have some joint partners that have been here too. What you do in this garrison and this post is support the readiness of all that is involved."

Lawrence said that while working on the Strategic Plan, he presented it to Brenda Lee McCullough, director of Installation Management Command-Readiness, who was impressed with the work done.

"One thing about this, I took it to San Diego approximately two-weeks ago and gave a copy to Ms. McCullough," Lawrence said. "She went through the document and said, 'very, very good.' She wrote several notes on it, just talking about where we were going as a garrison. We were one of the first organizations in readiness to actually develop a plan that will take us into the future. (She) was very impressed by that and very impressed by everything Fort Riley is doing."

The strategic plan lists several objectives that the garrison will implement via lines of effort. Those include: Train, equip and deploy Soldiers; Care for Soldiers and families; Infrastructure and support services; Human capital; Organizational culture and Community relationships and partnerships.

With the help of the garrison directors, Lawrence said he intends to roll out the plan March 29.