| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan is located both in the circum-Pacific seismic zone and sub-tropical regions. The geography location causes Taiwan to suffer from natural disasters, including typhoons, heavy rains, droughts, cold waves, and earthquakes. According to the statistic data, each year in Taiwan, there is average of three to four typhoons attacks. Earthquakes with magnitudes 5 hit Taiwan about 24.4 times a year. After the 921 earthquake, government sorted out series of disaster prevention programs and related arrangements, and then “Disaster Prevention and Protection Act” was issued in July 2000. After Typhoon Morakot occurred, Article 34 in “Disaster Prevention and Protection Act” was revised: “When a major disaster occurs, the armed forces should give assistance actively. Ministry of National Defense should consider the disaster prevention as one of the main tasks of the armed forces.”
However, after the following rules : “Elite Project”, “Elite Progress Project”and “Super Elite Project”, the number of the standing army reduces significantly. In case of a major disaster, it is difficult to assign the standing army between the training mission and the disaster relief. Therefore, how to use reservists plays an important role, including assigning positions of the numerous reservists, carrying out the education of disaster prevention, organizing the specialties of the reservists, and enhancing reservists’ ability to assist whenever disasters occur. For the specialist reservists, a new skill is required; for our country, utilizing reservists brings positive affect.
Through this study, the author tried to analyze the disaster reliefs which the national armed forces attended since the 921 earthquake. The analysis contains armed forces military strength and weakness, organization of reservists training and review of the Disaster Prevention Act. According to the analysis, the author proposed several relevant plans and improvement recommendations: the management and training of reservists’ specialty, substitute and civil defense personnel disaster prevention plan, the establishment of the professional disaster relief team of reservists, the human resource database of the disaster reliefs and, the combination of the reservists and the people for disaster relief. | en_US |