The urgency of the IG looking at the maintenance of the pre-positioned equipment has likely been greatly increased due to the relatively recent revelations about the state of Russia’s reserve war stocks. Russian corruption and negligence in the long term maintenance of the equipment and the resultant uselessness of a lot of the equipment without major rebuilds was quite a surprise to the west. It may not have been a great surprise to the Russians but I think they were hoping to win the war quickly so they would not have to touch those stocks. (If you don’t have to touch the stocks there is no need to look closely at how they are being stored and maintained. But they did, to great embarrassment.) Now the IG wants to make sure that we do not have a similar problem.
During the Cold War, NATO sponsored exercises that included an annual exercise called REFORGER (Return of Forces to Germany). A selected portion of the prepositioned equipment was issued to support this exercise. When the exercise ended, the equipment was turned in and inspected, repaired and returned to storage. If you don’t do this, most inspection and repair will be done with paper and pencil. Who will ever know?