WIELDING EXCALIBUR


CLOSE INSPECTION


A U.S. Army Soldier inspects an M982A1 Excalibur round prior to it being loaded into an M777 howitzer for a live-fire training event in June 2020 on Fort Polk, Louisiana (now Fort Johnson). The Excalibur projectile allows Ukrainian forces increased firepower while decreasing the risk to their own troops. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Ashley Morris, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division)


Once the team successfully crafted the training package, we faced our next obstacle: Because Excalibur had yet to be officially named on a presidential draw- down, the team lacked a mechanism to satisfy foreign disclosure requirements and to provide training materials to the UAF. To clear this hurdle, PdM PACM worked with Joint Multinational Group Ukraine and the Royal Canadian Artillery to ensure that the training was delivered in a timely manner.


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LOGISTICS AND ONGOING SUPPORT Once the Excalibur projectile was offi- cially named on a presidential drawdown, moving the munitions from U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps stocks to theater was straightforward, with the assistance of JMC. Once PM CAS, in conjunction with PM Ammunition (U.S. Marine Corps), identified the lots of Excalibur that would be used to source the presidential draw- down requirements, Joint Munitions


Command executed its mission of moving the munitions seamlessly. Unfortunately, because PEFCS is not a U.S. Army end item, there was no simple mechanism for moving them into theater.


In response to this challenge, PdM PACM worked with TACOM, and before the execution date established by the presiden- tial drawdown, developed an executable process for moving PEFCS from Pica- tinny Arsenal, New Jersey, to the shipping


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