POMCUS and aviation assets.

[kato13]

I recently saw an article about Poland buying 96 Apache helicopters, and the comments were talking about how this was a HUGE investment in defense for the Poles. I do not deny that, but I thought about how people looking at the current state of of the world armed forces have very little concept of how large the 1989 forces were.

My thought was wow they think 96 is impressive when the US would have kept 150+ waiting in POMCUS warehouses (with duplicates where the units train). That got me thinking about how aviation assets might be stored differently from the regular mechanized equipment (due to much higher maintenance requirements even when not is use.)

I also might be totally mistaken in how POMCUS and aviation assets worked. Maybe given how quickly they could be moved forward they were not in the standard warehouses? Does anyone know the details of how POMCUS and helicopter units was handled?