Get ready, reservists. As the Army cuts back active-duty troops to save money, it will start leaning on its part-time reserve force instead of pick up the slack.

At a meeting last week discussing military sequestration, Gen. Mark Milley remarked that Army isn’t as small as critics were saying. After all, more than half a million Americans were enlisted in the reserves.

“The Army is a million-plus, it’s not 450,000,” Milley said.

While many reservists served during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, military officials worried that it simply took too long to prepare them for combat. Milley’s answer is to ‘beef up’ the reserves with active-duty troops.

Here are more details regarding how exactly Milley plans to improve the reserve force, courtesy of the Gazette:

Now, Milley is mulling the return of those “round-out” units. That would mean active-duty units would contain a reserve or Guard contingent that could be called up for conflicts. But making that work means Guard troops will need a level of training similar to their full-time comrades. Getting there will require more deployments for part-time troops and more monthlong rotations for intensive training in California or Louisiana, he said.

“I want to make sure we are operationally using the Guard,” Milley said.

Milley said he also wants part-time troops to spend more time in uniform, upping the 39-day training standard that’s been in place for more than a century.

Much of what Milley is calling for was outlined in recommendations late last month from the National Commission on the Future of the Army. That panel’s 200-page report called on leaders to drop distinctions between the Army’s active-duty and reserve components. It remains under study at the Pentagon.