A soldier depends on his tracked or wheeled combat vehicle to maneuver and put up a good fight when needed just as much as logisticians count on transportation assets to haul supplies to those soldiers.
Good communications link the supply and demand of the war, keeping soldiers on the roll.
The Materiel Support Center maintenance facility at Camp Carroll, an element of the 19th Theater Army Area Command, is tasked with keeping this gear in the field so soldiers can continue to train. That's equipment no mechanized unit would want to lose. The shop uses the 'inspect and repair only as required,' or 'IROR,' concept. There are 70 bays at the facility, Birch said, but about 100 vehicles are being repaired at any given time. This year, the major-assemblies division will repair about 300 Humvee engines.