US-"Prepositioning Program" wird ausgebaut

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NATO Plans Facility in Poland to Store U.S. Military Equipment
NATO will plow funds into stationing U.S. military equipment in Poland, lending allied heft to Washington’s strategy for quickly reinforcing Europe with troops in case of a Russian incursion.

The $260 million storage facility will help turn an air base near Powidz, in central Poland, into a hub for U.S. forces in a former Soviet Bloc country that has a land border with Russia. Construction will start this summer and take two years, said Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-plans ... ge=1&pos=3

Das ist alles andere als neu:
  • Inspector General
    Management of Army and Marine Corps Prepositioned Stocks in U.S. European Command

    September 17, 2018
    We nonstatistically selected five locations.

    For APS‑2, we selected Zutendaal, Belgium, and Leghorn Army Depot, Livorno, Italy. For MCPP-N, we selected the Bjugn, Frigaard, and Tromsdal caves in Norway. We selected these locations because they contained a majority of the prepositioned vehicles and weapons. For APS-2, we excluded three sites—Coleman Worksite, Germany; Dulmen, Germany; and Eygelshoven, Netherlands—because they were inspected by the AMC Inspector General in June 2017.
    https://media.defense.gov/2018/Sep/19/2 ... 18-152.PDF
  • US to store heavy weapons in Poland under Nato plan (15. Juni 2015)
    The US will take a decision soon to store heavy weapons including tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in Poland, the Polish defence minister says.

    Tomasz Siemoniak said he had discussed such US military deployments last month with US Defence Secretary Ash Carter.
    The three Baltic states also plan to store US heavy weapons, officials say.

    The US has confirmed only that it is to send an armoured brigade of up to 250 vehicles, including tanks, to Germany to support its Nato allies.

    US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter will decide in due course whether any of those vehicles will be deployed to other European countries.

    "Decisions are near," Mr Siemoniak tweeted (in Polish), confirming a New York Times report at the weekend that storage of US heavy weapons in Poland was being discussed.
    It would not be an ad hoc measure, the minister said, but "for years and decades".

    Reports say up to 5,000 Nato troops could be equipped with the weapons set to be stored in eastern Europe. It would be in position for a Nato rapid reaction brigade, agreed at a Nato summit last year, which could deploy at short notice.

    The White House and Mr Carter still have to approve the heavy weapons storage, and no precise locations have been named yet.

    "This is another step towards building a greater US presence in Poland and the region," Mr Siemoniak told the Polish news agency PAP.

    "If heavy US military equipment, including tanks, artillery batteries and other equipment really does turn up in countries in eastern Europe and the Baltics, that will be the most aggressive step by the Pentagon and Nato since the Cold War," said Gen Yuri Yakubov, a Russian defence ministry official.

    Gen Yabukov said that, under such circumstances, Russia would "organise retaliatory steps to strengthen our Western frontiers".
    Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary have also been named as possible storage locations for US military hardware.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33131886
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EUROPEAN DETERRENCE INITIATIVE

Department of Defense Budget
Fiscal Year (FY) 2020

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
March 2019

ARMY
  • Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) Unit Set Requirements ($1,860.6 million)

    Description: Provides for the continued build of a division sized prepositioned set of equipment in Europe. In the event of conflict, prepositioned sets reduce the demands on strategic transportation assets and also reduce the risk of enemy interdiction.

    Funding Details: Funds the build of a division-sized set of prepositioned equipment that is planned to contain two ABCTs (one of which is modernized), two Fires Brigades, air defense, engineer, movement control, sustainment and medical units. This includes funds to modernize and, where necessary, acquire vehicles for the European threat, to transport equipment from CONUS to storage facilities, and to restore and update facilities to receive the equipment. Funding will accelerate the build of sustainment and medical assets that are critical to theater setting and port opening. Funding will increase survivability by fielding vehicle protection systems to one brigade of tanks within the set. Funding
    also supports additional war stock ammunition for the unit sets.
  • Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Enhancements ($2.4 million)

    Description: Supports IAMD enhancements through integrating proximity fuzes on existing Stinger missiles thereby making them more effective against emerging air and missile threats in theater.

    Funding Details: Funds final development and fielding of proximity fuzes on Army Stinger missiles.
MARINE CORPS
  • Enhanced U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Prepositioning ($7.3 million)

    Description: Enhances USMC prepositioning in Europe to quickly deploy a sizeable force to respond to threats made by aggressive actors in the region, allowing for an increase in the amount of combat arms equipment available in the Marine Corps Prepositioned Program – Norway (MCPP-N), adding new combat arms equipment to the MCPPN-N, improving the cold weather equipment in the MCPP-N, and reconstituting the Maritime Prepositioning Force capability in Europe.

    Funding Details: Funds supports purchase and transportation of equipment, supplies, and material.
https://comptroller.defense.gov/Budget- ... udget2020/
Army Adds Medical Materiel to European Prepositioned Stocks (29. November 2018)
Army prepositioned stocks (APS) 2 in Europe -- the Army's newest APS site -- is now equipped with life-saving medical equipment and supplies in support of theater readiness.
https://www.army.mil/article/214437/arm ... ned_stocks


APS-2 Zutendaal talks support equipment with Belgium Land System Section (11. Juli 2018)
The APS-2 site shares the base with the Belgian army and is part of the Army's Prepositioned Stocks Program which strategically prepositions critical war stocks afloat and ashore worldwide to reduce deployment response times for a quick and agile expeditionary Army.
Zutendaal was opened on Nov. 21, 2017 and is one of the two APS operations under the mission command of Army Field Support Battalion - Benelux. The AFSBn is one of four battalions of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
https://www.army.mil/article/208378/aps ... em_section


2011-0191
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
(MOU)

GOVERNING

PRESTOCKAGE AND REINFORCEMENT OF NORWAY


https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/o ... 180656.pdf


Hier ein älterer Überblick von 2005 ...

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovclou ... newman.pdf

... und 2008 über die Army Prepositioned Stocks:
  • APS-1 CONUS
  • APS-2 Europe
    • Eygelshoven
    • Camp Darby, Italy
    • Leghorn Army Depot, Livorno, Italy
  • APS-3 Afloat
    • Charleston, SC
    • Diego Garcia
  • APS-4 NE Asia
    • Camp Carroll, Korea
    • Yokohama & Camp Sagami, Japan
  • APS-5 SW Asia
    • Camp Arifjan & Kuwait Naval Base
    • Camp As Saliyah, Qatar
https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/file ... bility.pdf

Sowie 2015:

http://www.ndia-ia-il.org/docs/briefing ... WRIGHT.pdf


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

What efforts does the Army plan to continue in the future?
  • APS-2 (Europe) - APS-2 will maintain a company-size team Immediate Ready Force (IRF), selected operational projects and some war reserve stocks for allies.
  • APS-3 (Afloat) - will consist of three Army Strategic Flotilla (ASF) Heavy Brigade Combat Teams (HBCT) and two ASF - Support packages. They will provide a capability to support and sustain the full range of military operations for early arriving forces comprised of ASF combat and support units and selected fly-in units.
  • APS-4 (Northeast Asia (NEA)) - will consist of a Heavy Brigade Combat Team supported by a specifically tailored Sustainment Brigade, Army watercraft units and medical support units.
https://www.army.mil/standto/2006-08-18

  • Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway (MCPP-N) (Region Trondheim)
    • Munitionslager
      • Hammernesodden (Munition für Kampffahrzeuge)
      • Kalvaa (Munition für Luftfahrzeuge)

US-Militärfahrzeuge werden in Norwegen eingelagert

http://www.doppeladler.com/forum/viewto ... 32&p=57943
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Meer Amerikaanse legervoorraad naar Eygelshoven

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https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/ ... ygelshoven


Das Depot in Eygelshoven ist erst vor ein paar Jahren eröffnet worden:
  • Prepositioned equipment site officially opens in Netherlands (16. Dezember 2016)
    U.S. and Dutch military and diplomatic leaders cut a ribbon to officially open the Army Prepositioned Stocks site in the Netherlands Dec. 15, which will store and service about 1,600 U.S. Army vehicles.

    Located at the Eygelshoven Army Depot-BENELUX, the 500,000 square foot storage space is part of the European Reassurance Initiative and will house a brigade's worth of equipment, including M1 Abrams Tanks, M109 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers and other armored and support vehicles.
    In stocking the warehouses, the Army used many of the vehicles that were part of the European Activity Set to train U.S. Forces in Europe and to reassure allies of U.S. commitment; most recently Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division who trained across Europe earlier this year. The movement of the vehicles to this new site is part of the switch from EAS to the APS program, in which critical war stocks are prepositioned and maintained so the U.S. and its allies can rapidly respond to any potential threat within Europe and NATO.
    The APS facility includes six buildings, which will each house a battalion set of equipment. The buildings were used by the U.S. until 2006 when they were handed over to the Dutch. The buildings and the railhead have been updated to meet the needs of the new mission. 300 employees at the facility, including Dutch Ministry of Defense personnel, local contractors and Department of the Army Civilians, will be trained in railhead operations and will be able to move the equipment out to any crisis area in Europe with little notice.
    Three more APS sites are scheduled to open in Europe through 2017, allowing more freedom of movement for the U.S. and its allies.
    https://www.army.mil/article/179831/pre ... etherlands
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Defensie investeert miljoenen in opslagplaats Eygelshoven

https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/ ... ygelshoven Der Stützpunkt Army Prepositioned Stocks Eygelshoven (APS-E), in dem derzeit 765 amerikanische Militärfahrzeuge (u.a. HMMWV und Erdbewegungsmaschinen) und 6500 andere Gegenstände (u.a. Container und Generatoren) eingelagert sind, wird für 38 Mio. EUR umgebaut.
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405th AFSB command team visits APS-2 construction site in Poland

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One of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s main lines of effort is the Army Prepositioned Stock-2 program. There are five APS-2 sites in four countries under the command and control of the 405th AFSB in support of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and joint forces.
Construction is scheduled to be completed sometime in mid- to late-2022, and the APS-2 site is scheduled to be operational and fully mission capable the following year or no later than the year after.
The design and construction estimate for the new APS-2 site is more than $360 million.

Comprised of 650,000 square feet of humidity-controlled warehouse space, a vehicle maintenance facility and supporting facilities – the state-of-the-art APS-2 site demonstrates the commitment and investment of the U.S. and the host nation with NATO through enduring agreements to posture resources for rapid deployment and deter potential adversaries.

About 85 battle tanks, 190 armored combat vehicles, 35 artillery, and 4 armored vehicle launched bridges along with hundreds of supporting equipment sets and pieces will be stored at the new site. To move that amount of equipment from the U.S. would take 45-60 days. With the APS-2 site, the timeline is reduced to 4-7 days to issue the equipment for operational employment.
The 405th AFSB’s APS-2 program helps to reduce deployment timelines, improve deterrence capabilities and provide additional combat power for contingency operations. APS-2 equipment may also be drawn for use in training and exercises like DEFENDER-Europe 21. Each APS-2 site has the capability to house and maintain about an Armored Brigade Combat Team’s worth of equipment as well as engineer, artillery, military police, sustainment and medical capabilities.
The 405th AFSB is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and under the operational control of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, USAREUR-AF.
https://www.army.mil/article/246192/405 ... _in_poland
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2 ... d17.892243

Die neuen Lagerhallen des LTESM-C stehen hier, ganz in der Nähe der 33. Baza Lotnictwa Transportowego:

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Neben LTESM-C wird derzeit auch ein neues Munitionslager (MSA ... Munitions Storage Area) der US-Streitkräfte in Powidz gebaut:

Nowy kompleks logistyczno-sprzętowy w Powidzu (5. April 2023)

https://33bltr.wp.mil.pl/pl/articles/ak ... w-powidzu/
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