He described the shipment as a training exercise, in which the U.S. White disclosed some details about a movement in July of weaponry and war supplies from Qatar to Camp Doha in Kuwait.
On 05 September 2002 Army Secretary Thomas E.
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On 04 September 2002 US defense officials confirmed plans to transport a brigade's worth of equipment - about 70 tanks and other tracked vehicles plus additional military cargo - to Kuwait from the United States aboard a commercial cargo vessel in late September. It would take only a few days to bring in the soldiers to man the tanks, artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers now in place. The US had enough equipment in Kuwait - three brigade sets - to support about 15-25,000 troops in Kuwait. The CENTCOM commander in chief's (CINC's) goal is to pre-position a division of equipment on the Arabian peninsula.īy the end of August 2002 the US had moved equipment, which had been stored in Qatar and Europe, to Kuwait.
With APS-5, APS-3 and Qatar, the Army could muster eight maneuver battalions. Each brigade set holds in storage about 115 M-1A1 Abrams tanks, 60 M-2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles, 100 armored personnel carriers, 25 mortars and 20 155-millimeter howitzers.Īs of 2001 plans called for storing a third brigade set in the region eventually. Each brigade set consists of one mechanized and two armored battalions, as well as equipment for combat service support units. Combat support and combat service support units are also part of prepositioned stocks. These 2x1 brigade sets each consist of two armor battalions and one mechanized infantry battalion.Īrmy Prepositioned Stocks-5 (APS-5) at Camp Doha stocks consist of a divisional Armor brigade task force with two Armor/Infantry balanced task forces and one pure Armor battalion. Army Prepositioned Stock 5 (APS-5) is located in Southwest Asia, and as of early 2002 consisted of two brigade-sets of material - one stored in Kuwait and the other stored in Qatar.
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