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have been paid to consolidate, transport or demilitarize this equipment. In this case, these trucks will help Morocco in its efforts to modernize its military, provide interoperability and build relations needed in today’s multidomain battlefield.
Trough September 2019, USASAC had transferred and shipped 50 vehicles to partner nations; the last 50 should be shipped by the end of fiscal year 2019. Tis speed is unprecedented: Most excess defense articles cases typically take three to six months for the approval process and sometimes several years to complete. Once the final 50 vehicles are shipped, this case will have been implemented and closed within one year.
USASAC has previously tested this theory, but could not completely codify it, during the Army’s divestment of OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters. Te Army initially issued a directive to divest all OH-58Ds, but amended its plans to “partial divest” and wanted to store them at Davis- Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. Each retained aircraft cost the Army approxi- mately $35,000 to prepare for type A storage (which involved encasing the
UPWARD MOBILITY
Contractors working for a foreign partner’s freight forwarder load an M1078 Medium Tactical Vehicle for transport. USASAC has transferred and shipped 50 vehicles to Morocco so far this year, and will ship 50 more by the end of fiscal year 2019. (U.S. Army photo by the author)
engine and electronics in shrink or bubble wrap for long-term storage). After type A storage, the cost to bring each helicopter back to operational status is $350,000 to $500,000.
USASAC had foreign partners—Croatia, Greece and Tunisia—that were interested in the OH-58Ds, and the Excess Defense Articles team created a plan that would transition the aircraft and generate cost savings for the Army and the partners. Te plan included storing the aircraft in flight- ready condition, paid for by the customer (at a cost of $3,000 a month), at Redstone Arsenal Airfield, Alabama. Te Army thereby avoided the transportation and storage prep costs, and the foreign part- ners avoided the regeneration cost that would have been incurred with sending them to Arizona.
CONCLUSION Tis commonsense thinking has been the driving force behind USASAC’s efforts to transform the Excess Defense Articles program from a reactive pseudo-solution to a proactive force multiplier. Being able to identify up front which allies or partners may be able to use the Army’s
outdated, excess equipment speeds up the process of removing it
from the
Army’s inventory and helps build capac- ity in allies and partners. Te result is a win-win situation for Army and ally and partner readiness. Te Army divests excess equipment quickly at the unit level, which also speeds up modernization of the unit and saves money. Additionally, partners and allies receive military equipment at a reduced cost while gaining both a capabil- ity and interoperability with U.S. forces.
For more information, contact the author at 256-450-4750 or contact Lem Williams, chief of the USASAC Operations Division, at 256-450-4043.
MARCUS MACKEY is the USASAC G-3 Excess Defense Articles Modernization program manager at Redstone Arsenal. He is a retired Army veteran with more than 20 years of service as a logistician with multiple deployments to Iraq, Somalia and Bosnia. He was recently inducted into the Madison County, Alabama, Hall of Heroes 2018 class. He holds a B.S. in management from the University of Phoenix.
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