That's good (although I didn't know it had been bad):
Over the past six months, the Army has geared up its pre-positioned stocks of equipment so that they’re ready to be issued within 96 hours of a contingency, said the top general for Army Materiel Command.
The equipment is everything a unit (generally a brigade) would need apart from the troops themselves. So we can fly in troops from the United States to draw the equipment much faster than a unit could be loaded on to trains, moved to a port, loaded on a ship, sailed overseas and unloaded, and manned by the troops.
The general wouldn't say where the gear is, but in the past it was in South Korea, Germany, Kuwait, and another location in the Persian Gulf region.
The Marines have equipment, too, some afloat.
Of course, the main warfighting elements must go by sea no matter how long that takes.
We're just not going to get there first with the most. But we can hope we get there soon enough with just enough.
