Prepositioning Weapons to Save Tons

Prepositioning Weapons to Save Tons
May 12, 2008
Air Force Print News|by SSgt Ruth Curfman

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq - Balad Air Base has been chosen by Air Force leaders to be the test base for a weapons prepositioning initiative expected to save the Air Force approximately $1.3 million per year in transportation costs.

This initiative involves the prepositioning of M-9s and M-16s that will allow certain Airmen to travel here without weapons from their home stations.

The participants will, instead, sign for their weapons once arriving on station.

"If you consider that most people pay about $85 each way for excess baggage charges for their weapon, this is a huge savings to the military," said Senior Master Sgt. Jeffery Swartz, the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron superintendent of supply operations deployed from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.

The first phase of this test period has already begun.


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I guess tons (of money) = $1,300,000?