[Stand-To!] Army Prepositioned Stocks - March 16, 2006

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Edition: Thu, March 16, 2006
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SENIOR LEADERS ARE SAYING
"The responsibility of the senior logistics people is to look across  
the country and the world and our prepositioned stocks and all the  
things we have and then see that the right pieces are in the right  
place at the right time."

Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
TODAY'S FOCUS
Army Prepositioned Stocks

What is it? The Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) are combat-ready  
assets amassed in peacetime to meet the increase in military  
requirements at the outbreak of war. Strategically located on land  
and aboard ships around the world, these critical war fighting stocks  
aid rapid employment. APS remains set at the minimum level of stocks  
to sustain and equip the approved forces as outlined in the Defense  
Planning Guidance.

APS is operated and maintained by the Army Field Support Command, a  
Major Subordinate Command of the Army Materiel Command.

What has the Army done? APS consists of prepositioned unit sets of  
equipment, operational projects, and sustainment stocks. It also  
includes War Reserve Stocks for Allies in Korea, Thailand, and  
Israel. APS equipment is currently located in 12 countries in  
Southwest Asia, Far East, Europe and Afloat. There are four  
categories of APS equipment:

• Heavy Brigade Combat Team and Combat Support unit configured sets
• Operational Projects
• Sustainment
• War Reserve Stocks for Allies

Operation Iraqi Freedom was the first test of APS in high-intensity  
combat. APS assets enabled the Coalition Force Commander in Kuwait to  
rapidly build combat power by drawing on stocks in Kuwait and Qatar,  
as well as seaborne materiel delivered by the APS fleet. Three 3rd  
Infantry Division brigades were thus equipped for their lightning  
drive to Baghdad.

A majority of Army equipment used in Operation Iraqi Freedom today  
was provided from APS stocks.

For more information on this topic, please visit http://www.army.mil/ 
aps/06/maindocument/infopapers/J-08.html
INFORMATION YOU CAN USE
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