{"id":135774,"date":"2020-02-04T20:44:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smg.go-vip.net\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/02\/04\/us-army-wants-to-expand-prepositioned-stock-in-pacific\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:08:46","slug":"us-army-wants-to-expand-prepositioned-stock-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/04\/us-army-wants-to-expand-prepositioned-stock-in-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army wants to expand pre-positioned stock in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army wants to expand its pre-positioned equipment in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2019\/03\/27\/defender-pacific-to-focus-on-south-china-sea-scenario\/\" target=_blank>Indo-Pacific region<\/a>, Gen. Gus Perna, the head of Army Materiel Command, told reporters during a Feb. 4 Defense Writers Group event in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the service believes the Army pre-positioned stock \u2014 or APS \u2014 is adequate in Europe as it heads into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/10\/07\/reforger-redux-defender-2020-exercise-to-be-3rd-largest-exercise-in-europe-since-cold-war\/\" target=_blank>a major division-level exercise there this year<\/a>, the service is \u201calready working on ways to expand APS out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2019\/10\/14\/pacific-pathways-in-2020-lead-to-oceania\/\" target=_blank>the Pacific,<\/a>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the Defender Europe and Defender Pacific series of exercises this year will help determine if the APS stock in each theater is right-sized and correctly based.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2019\/12\/27\/does-the-army-have-its-european-weapons-stocks-right-defender-europe-2020-will-tell\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/APSLithuania.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Does the US Army have enough weapons to defend Europe? Exercise Defender 2020 will reveal all.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Army&#039;s pre-positioned stock in Europe will be put to the test during Defender 2020, as will the service&#039;s entire supply chain and ability to rapidly move soldiers and equipment.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his predecessor laid some groundwork, the new U.S. Army Pacific Command chief Gen. Paul LaCamera, who assumed the positioned in November 2019, is working through a strategy, Perna said \u2014 \u201cin combination, of course, with support of the [combatant command] commander out there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the leaders in the Pacific have a plan, they will brief the Army secretary and chief on courses of action and then decide the path forward. Next, Perna said, his command will execute the establishment and expansion of APS in the Pacific as directed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AMC is also figuring out how to tackle Defender Pacific, which will run at a smaller scale to its companion exercise in Europe, but will expand in fiscal 2021 as the European version scales back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDefender Pacific will have added challenges due to the sheer difference in timing and distances, as well as terrain,\u201d Perna told Defense News in December. \u201cWe will have to move troops and equipment much farther than in the European theater, which means it will take more time to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For logisticians and maintainers, that means predicting requirements further into the future, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, communications will be a challenge with a 14-hour time difference. \u201cThe exercise will put to the test our 24-hour operations center and support systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pacific also requires different weapon systems and combat enablers in its APS. And unique to the Pacific will be a chance to test the Army\u2019s sealift capabilities as opposed to the rails and roads in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perna also stressed one thing neither theater will likely see again any time soon: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/home\/2015\/10\/18\/us-army-plans-for-more-equipment-caches-in-europe\/\" target=_blank>\u201cactivity sets\u201d<\/a> the Army experimented with in Europe and South Korea as operations ramped up in both regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2017\/03\/13\/ditching-pre-positioned-activity-sets-us-army-deploys-equipment-from-conus\/\" target=\"_blank\">ditched activity sets in 2017<\/a>, as they were only intended to serve as a bridging strategy where soldiers deployed from the continental United States to a combatant command area of operations, and could then draw the equipment out of storage for training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn my opinion, that was an efficiency drill and I was 100 percent against them,\u201d Perna said. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/global-force-symposium\/2016\/03\/15\/army-general-leads-way-to-more-activity-sets-around-the-world\/\" target=_blank>Activity sets<\/a> and APS are two different things. Army pre-positioned stocks serve a primary purpose to allow the president of the United States to make decisions and us to execute rapidly. And in that light, the equipment will be ready and it will be capable of going out and executing its mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to current APS, \u201cit is ready. Every piece of equipment works,\u201d Perna said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have gone to great length to make sure that a unit can get on a plane and fly over and draw that equipment rapidly. 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