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A war reserve stock (WRS)/pre-positioned stocks (PPS), is a collection of warfighting materiel held in reserve in pre-positioned storage to be used if needed in wartime. They may be located strategically depending on where it is believed they will be needed. [ 1 ]
AMC was established on 8 May 1962 and was activated on 1 August of that year as a major field command of the U.S. Army. Lieutenant General Frank S. Besson, Jr., who directed the implementation of the Department of Army study that recommended creation of a "materiel development and logistics command", served as its first commander.
Vehicles inside one of the storage caves in 2015 Vehicles and equipment being offloaded in 2014 as part of the modernization of the materiel stored in Norway. According to an unclassified United States Marine Corps handbook, the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway included the following facilities in 2015.
Some prepositioned stock is under discussion with specific nations with agreements to be announced (currently classified as of October 2020) An SFAB is allocated to the Pacific AoR; APS-4 in NE Asia [269] [281] APS-5 in CENTCOM's Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, [129] and SW Asia [269] By 2020 AMC had seven Army prepositioned stocks. [282]
USAMMA crest. The United States Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), is a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and serves as the U.S. Army's life cycle management command (LCMC) and executive agent for strategic medical acquisition, project management and logistics programs.
POMCUS (Prepositioning Of Materiel Configured in Unit Sets) was a system that kept large amounts of pre-positioned U.S. military equipment in West Germany during the Cold War.
The 405th AFSB maintains Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 worksites in Europe and provides APS-2 equipment to units arriving from the continental United States. It also has mission command of eight Logistics Readiness Center and two Base Support Operations units.
[148] [101] [149] The 2023 exercises for IndoPacom will test its prepositioned stocks. [150] The CG of Army Materiel Command is taking the lead for contested logistics. [151] In 2018, McCarthy characterized a CFT as a team of teams, led by a requirements leader, program manager, sustainer and tester. [152] Some CFTs also have representatives of ...