Happy Birthday IMCOM!

On October 26 IMCOM will mark its third year of supporting Soldiers, Families and Senior commanders by providing quality services and programs, delivered consistently across installations.

IMCOM was originally designated the Installation Management Agency (IMA) in August 2002, when the Army issued General Order 4 creating the command as a field operating agency of the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (OACSIM). General Order 4 followed a period in which Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White and GEN Eric K. Shinseki, Army Chief of Staff, had envisioned installation transformation as the initial focus for transforming the Army as a whole.

The intent of the order was to enable senior commanders to focus on their war-fighting missions, to standardize and improve the quality of life for Soldiers and Families, to place the “city management’ functions of installations on garrison commanders, and to streamline funding to installations. Initiating installation management transformation with IMA was based on three key assumptions:

– Installation services should be standard and predictable
– Business practices would improve installation management
– Installation costs would be reduced while improving execution through centralized funding and streamlined processes

In 2005, Base Realignment and Closure directed the consolidation of the U.S. Army Family, Morale and Welfare Command, the U.S. Army Environmental Command and the U.S. Army Installation Management Agency in San Antonio Texas.

In October 2006, Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey and Army Chief of Staff GEN Peter K. Schoomaker created the Installation Management Command. This action placed the former IMA, the former Community and Family Support Center (renamed the Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command), and the former Army Environmental Center (renamed the Army Environmental Command) in a single three-star command as a direct reporting unit to OACSIM.

The IMCOM vision is to be “The Army’s Home.” Every day, IMCOM delivers the commitments of the Army Family Covenant to more than 150 installations worldwide, honoring the sacrifices of Soldiers and Military Families, enabling successful execution of the Army Force Generation cycle.