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GAO-08-257R 1 (2008-02-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawfo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 February 8, 2008 The Honorable Ike N. Skelton Chairman Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives The Honorable Solomon P. Ortiz Chairman Readiness Subcommittee Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Subject: Defense Logistics: Army Has Not Fully Planned or Budgeted for the Reconstitution of Its Afloat Prepositioned Stocks At various stages throughout the current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has withdrawn equipment from its stored, or prepositioned, stock sets around the world, as well as from its afloat stocks, thus depleting a large portion of its prepositioned stocks.' The Army prepositions equipment at diverse strategic locations in order to field combat-ready forces in days rather than the weeks it would take if equipment had to be moved from the United States to the location of the conflict. The Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) program supports the National Military Strategy and is an important part of the Department of Defense's (DOD) overall strategic mobility framework. The APS program depends on prepositioned unit sets of equipment and sustainment stocks to enable troops to deploy rapidly and train with prepositioned equipment before beginning combat operations. As we testified in January 2007 and March 2006, however, sustained continuing operations have taken a toll on the condition and readiness of military equipment, and the Army faces a number of ongoing and long-term challenges that will affect both the timing and cost of equipment repair and replacement, particularly to its prepositioned stocks.2 Over the past several years, GAO and other audit agencies have reported on numerous long-standing problems facing DOD's and the Army's prepositioning 'The Army prepositions stocks primarily at land sites in Europe, Northeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and aboard ships afloat near Guam and Diego Garcia. During the initial stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Army primarily used prepositioned stocks afloat (APS-3) and from Southwest Asia (APS-5). 2GAO, Defense Logistics: Preliminary Observations on the Army's Implementation of Its Equipment Reset Strategies, GAO-07-439T (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 31, 2007), and Defense Logistics: Preliminary Observations on Equipment Reset Challenges and Issues for the Army and Marine Corps, GAO-06-604T (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 30, 2006). GAO-08-257R Defense Logistics

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