Pre-positioned equipment includes M1A1 Abrams tanks and M2 Bradley fighting vehicles as well as other armor, tank, artillery and engineer sets. Reception Reception starts when soldiers or equipment land at one of Kuwait's ports of debarkation. Equipment, bags and supplies are palletized and prepared for convoy to Camp Doha's drawing lot. Staging At the drawing lot, soldiers draw their equipment. This stage is not finished until all units have completed the draw and uploaded all combat equipment.
All equipment receives preventive maintenance checks and services prior to departing.
Onward Movement Onward movement begins with convoy operations to the marshaling area. Supplies and equipment are loaded onto trucks, and tracked vehicles are loaded onto heavy equipment transports. The convoys then move to their positions in the desert to begin training or contingency operations. This phase ends with the downloading of assets and tactical road march to the Kabal. The final phase, integration, is the tactical fusion of the arriving units into the Kuwait defensive plan.