Army Units to Deploy with Less Equipment, Use More Prepositioned War Stocks for Missions
25 Mar 2021
Military.com | By Matthew Cox
Beginning this fall, Army combat units tapped for training or real-world missions no longer will deploy with their major combat systems, but instead draw their equipment from war stocks that are prepositioned around the globe.
"We've got prepositioned stocks in lots of countries, and we need to pay more attention to it, and it needs to become part of our activities that we perform upon deployment," Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, Army deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7, told Military.com in a phone interview. "We need to do a better job when we deploy our forces at the drawing of Army prepositioned stocks. We need to access them more, because it creates speed in our movement."
The Army has five caches -- four land-based, one afloat -- of combat vehicles and other large warfighting equipment prepositioned around the world, at the ready for a major mission or contingency.
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