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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Yes. For the US Army, they're called (or at least were called; I retired 19 years ago) POMCONUS sites (Pre-positioned Material outside CONUS) They're basically yards and buildings full of major end items (vehicles, tents, MREs, and a big et cetera), usually maintained by civilian contractors, with a small command cadre of actual military troops.
These same sorts of sites exist in CONUS as well.
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I’ll bet that’s where all the extra BII that keeps going into bb status on the 5988 is kept (looking at you, M17 Sanator!) . Just waiting for a unit to deploy over with the mother of all shortage annexes!
They also have POMCUS on ship (APS- Army Prepositioning Squadron). Essentially a preloaded heavy brigade set (Circa late 90s-00s it was 2 tank/2 Brad/1 paladin battalions with a combat eng batt, fsb, Ada btty, mlrs btty, and some additional cs and css) and 30 days supply. These floated around Diego Garcia until called then sailed in convoy for a port (ex, Kuwait Naval Base) to offload and marry up with air deployed troops. Great concept, but requires a real port, a strategic airfield, and air and sea control. Every so often they pull a prepo afloat ship back to the states upload new equipment. Depending on your mtoe, the stuff on the ship might be older or newer than your home station kit. For instance, you might have M2A2s and get ODSs off the ship. You’ll get all that info at home station when your unit assumes alert.