POMCUS

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Prepositioning Of Materiel Configured in Unit Sets ( POMCUS ; German  " Prepositioning of material in sets assembled according to units " ) is a military logistics concept of the armed forces of the United States .

history

With the American POMCUS concept begun in the autumn of 1961, several depots were set up during the Cold War for reinforcement troops in the event of tension and defense against the Warsaw Pact . These were subordinate to the Combat Equipment Group (CEG), which in turn emerged in 1970 from the US Army , Europe Augmentation Readiness Group (UARG).

In Europe, for example, the battalions of the Combat Equipment Group (CEGE) in Mannheim were subordinate to the United States Army Europe (USAREUR).

The US Department of Defense began with the POMCUS program in 1978, an increasing incorporation of extensive military material in NATO depots to support the Rapid Reinforcement Concepts and proven to supply the US brought about divisions in annual REFORGER -Manövern. This included battle tanks, armored wheeled vehicles, pioneering equipment through to ammunition depots and equipment for larger troop units with food , tents, power generators, etc.

Depending on a Combat Equipment Battalion was for each one Divisionsset (DS) for the herbeizuführenden from North America US - divisions responsible, called CONUS Divisions (continental US-based). The following units existed until the beginning of the 1990s:

  • Combat Equipment Battalion East (CEBE) in Karlsruhe- Knielingen in Germany
  • Combat Equipment Battalion West (CEBW), in Landstuhl in Germany
  • Combat Equipment Battalion North (CEBN) in Grefrath in Germany
  • Combat Equipment Battalion South in Pisa in Italy
  • Combat Equipment Battalion Northwest (CEBNW) in Coevorden in the Netherlands
  • Combat Equipment Battalion Luxembourg (CEB-LU) in Luxembourg and the
  • Combat Equipment Base North Atlantic in Hythe , Great Britain (formerly Hythe Army Depot Activity (HYDA)).

In Europe during the Cold War, the staff included around 4,000 soldiers, 2,500 of them in West Germany; in support of around 370 civilians assigned to the 6900th Civilian Support Center.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.religte.com/nl_pomcus/index.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm?http&&&www.usarmygermany.com/units/21st%20SUPCOM/USAREUR_CEGE.htm

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