The Army has the primary role in getting supplies to the joint force in the figurative "last mile" after the Navy gets the supply ships into the port across the ocean.
The U.S. Army is using a facility in Subic Bay to stage equipment for exercises and alliance contingencies, according to a recent think tank report and imagery released by the Pentagon.
Army trucks and helicopters rolled off a Military Sealift Command-contracted vessel at Subic Bay last month during Washington’s annual mass disembarkation in the Philippines for a series of consecutive military drills.
This extends logistics for American and allied forces to operate close to China from the southern Philippines in Mindanao, as America planned in the 1930s to do to defend the Philippines:
The enduring need for secure logistics to the western Pacific hasn’t changed. But history is just rhyming. And so America looks to the Davao region rather than Dumanquilas Bay for a new logistics link should the current Pacific threat, China, move from the “pacing” standard to the active enemy.
For a long time, American logistics was pretty much restricted to northeast Asia to support South Korea and Japan. With the need to cope with rising Chinese power, INDOPACOM needs a wider and more robust logistics effort.
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NOTE: The image is from the initial article.
