The US should notify NATO that we'll be out in 5 years, no matter what.
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers in April that he favored a compromise in which troop housing and facilities could be built to support rotational forces, but not the type of setup that would include bringing families.
“My advice would be to create permanent bases, but don’t permanently station,” he told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. “So you get the effect of permanence by rotational forces cycling through permanent bases.”
I suspect it will be Russia telling us to get out...in exchange for keeping Europe from freezing to death.
so Obama didn’t sell it
The REFORGER equipment.
Before the Crimea annexation, though, the Army’s main prepositioning location was at Camp Darby in Livorno, Italy. The Middle East and the Indo-Pacific each had two major prepositioning sites, by comparison, in addition to floating stocks on Navy logistics ships. Since 2014, three new Army prepositioning sites have opened in Europe: Eygelshoven, Netherlands, which opened in 2016 and features eight climate-controlled warehouses and 50,000 square feet of additional storage; Dülmen, Germany, which opened in 2017 and features seven warehouses’ worth of war stocks; and Zutendaal, Belgium, which also opened in 2017, adding 15 more climate-controlled warehouses and 40,000 square feet of hardstand storage space. A fourth new site, in Powidz, Poland, is NATO-funded. It includes 650,000 square feet of climate-controlled warehouse space, a vehicle maintenance facility and a munitions storage area covering 58,000 square feet. It’s set to open later this year.
As it made massive storage capacity additions, the Army also experimented with what it could do with its prepositioned gear. One of the primary objectives of the inaugural Defender-Europe exercise was to demonstrate how APS-2 gear could be drawn, issued to troops, used and returned in a combat-like situation. In December 2021, the Army’s 21st Theater Sustainment Command pulled gear out of the APS sites in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and transported it several hundred miles to Leghorn Army Depot, Italy in a complex logistics drill. In all, 700 pieces of rolling stock and equipment – enough to equip a light infantry battalion and base support battalion – were mounted on trucks and transported south.
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Bring it home from Europe. All of it.
Bring home our troops form there as well.
The time has come for the USA to stop propping up the Euro-pinkos.
Crap!
The US should withdraw those 80,000 troops back to the southern U.S. border immediately...
Why should we keep our troops in Europe to protect moslem nations?
“Army equipment stored in Europe being looked at by inspector general”
Sounds like they’re having to comb through the junkyards there.
It has "come out" every year since before I enlisted in '72. The exercise is called REFORGER and it has seen the World Land Speed Record set by a Deuce and a Half going home from it.
Actually, a pretty good use of IGs.