The iron mountains of post-cold war interventions

Two weeks before the start of Operation Desert Storm's ground war, I was pulled from my battalion's intelligence and operations staff officer position and placed in command of a company in the 530th Supply and Services Battalion, 46th Support Group, 1st Corps Support Command (COSCOM), XVIII Airborne Corps. Two of the Army's major depots-New Cumberland Army Depot, Pennsylvania, and Red River Army Depot, Texas-processed many of the supplies.3 This account of the numbers of vehicles and the amount of equipment that were sent to DS/DS provides an idea of the challenge that logisticians faced- More than 117,000 wheeled vehicles and 12,000 tanks and armored vehicles deployed and redeployed.