Iraq Operations Have Depleted Munitions
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Use of high-tech munitions in current operations in Iraq has created a bigger dent in the Army’s stockpile than planned, causing a scramble to regenerate the supply.
“I will tell you that this is the one area that keeps me up at night,” Lt. Gen. Aundre F. Piggee, deputy chief of staff for logistics, said of the Army’s current stockpile of what it calls preferred munitions. “We have enough for what we need today, but we’re working to ensure that we have enough to sustain two contingency operations near simultaneously. We’re not where we need to be,” Piggee said at a one-day Hot Topic forum on sustainment sponsored by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare.
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