will serve as a maneuver element for the European Rotational Force and as part of the NATO Response Force. Tey will conduct combined training and exercises with allies and partner nations in their shared effort to protect global security.
EAS follows standard APS procedures
to conduct the inventory, preventive maintenance checks and services, road tests and signing lateral transfer documentation. Depending
upon a
unit’s earlier preparation and the strength of the leadership presence, issue to a company- or troop-sized unit can vary from a day to a much shorter period, said COL Christopher J. Roscoe, 405th AFSB commander.
Te November 2012 Army Requirements and Resourcing Board (AR2B) General Officer
Steering Committee
LINING UP FOR SERVICE U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams tanks arrive at the Grafenwoehr Training Area Jan 31. The vehicles are part of EAS, a combined arms, battalion-sized set of vehicles and equipment prepositioned to sup- port the European Rotational Forces and the NATO Response Force during training exercises and real-world missions. (U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger)
Rock Island Arsenal, (GOSC)
approved rotational activity sets, along with humanitarian assistance and disaster relief gear, as part of APS. DA assigned EAS to APS 2, the prepositioned equipment stored in Europe and maintained by Army Field Support Battalion (AFSBn) – Italy in Livorno. EAS has been situated at the Grafenwoehr training area, however, to allow a succession of rotational brigades to draw on it for training and contingencies under the Joint Multinational Training Command’s watch for U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR). AFSBn – Germany, in Vilseck, is providing AMC oversight of EAS.
In one sense, the EAS mission came at a good time. USAREUR had inactivated two BCTs in Germany since 2012 and provided about 70 percent of the equipment sourcing. Because USAREUR was at the end of a large reduction, equipment was present in theater that otherwise might not have been available. AMC and its APS manager, ASC at
IL, pulled the
remaining stocks from APS sources in the continental United States (CONUS), Korea, Italy, Afghanistan and Kuwait, except for the Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles, which were shipped to Europe from Fort Hood.
NOT THE COLD WAR Te return of heavy armor to Germany as part of EAS calls to mind the Return of Forces to Germany (REFORGER) exercises from 1969 to 1993, which involved divisions of armored vehicles and crew-served weapons—roughly 40,000-120,000 Soldiers. REFORGER was intended to transport units to Europe quickly to fall in on prepositioned warfighting stocks in the event of a Soviet invasion.
But we must let go of that Cold War paradigm. EAS has nowhere near the purpose, scope or scale of REFORGER. While a total of about 4,000 soldiers from 16 countries participated in Europe’s first
rotational training exercise, they included fewer than 1,250 from the 1-1
CAV. EAS includes 29 M1A2 Abrams tanks and 41 M2 Bradleys, along with 40 tracked armored vehicles, 150 wheeled vehicles, 10 pieces of engineer equipment and 8 M109 Paladins. Altogether, 350 Class VII major end items comprise the set, along with about 2,900 items in the Modified Table of Organization and Equipment (MTOE) and Table of Distribution and Allowance.
AMC IMPROVISES Facilitating the transition from one era to the next in Europe by estab- lishing the EAS was a necessary but challenging task for AFSBn – Germany and its brigade headquarters, the 405th AFSB. Although the EAS decision may have come at a good time for sourcing, from other angles the timing was replete with irony, as sequestration had become the defining feature of Army life. “Some of our challenges arose due to the unique timing of the EAS creation during the budget crisis in 2012 and initial reac- tion to Army sequestration,” Roscoe said.
“EAS shipments of MTOE equipment and ASL/PLL [authorized stockage list
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