Merton Place on Pwllycrochan AVenue (above) and Police
War Reserves and Special Constables (below) Imperial Hotel in Colwyn Bay The Womens Home Guard Auxilliary Group 1942 (above).
Flagler urged that funds be allocated to establish an adequate stock of
war reserve munitions, but his recommendations went unheeded.
This chapter discussed
war reserves (purported estimates of cost to reconvert from war production to peacetime production, plus unspecified "contingencies"), cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, renegotiation (government changing the price of a contract retroactively because it turned out the contractor made too much profit on it), claims under terminated war contracts, and inventories frozen by war controls (inventory not permitted to be sold for civilian purposes so it would be available for the war effort).
The Army and Marine Corps will probably relegate the majority of their MRAPs to
war reserves and preposition locations.
"After the war we came back to our
war reserves store unit for an inspection and to my surprise we still hadn't received enough suitable personal equipment.
Because the mission was outside the normal logistics chain, it required communication and coordination among individuals associated with Army
war reserves at AFSC, the Joint Munitions Command, CEG--A, the Army Materiel Command (AMC), and the Marine Corps.
Designed to "define lanes" (i.e., who can say or speak to what), the DoD's public affairs policy in this
war reserves exclusively for the Defense Department the release of all photographs and news concerning casualties, reserve call-ups, and troop deployments.
Thus contingency planning on corporate level must include the stockpiling of
war reserves.
Robust planning for
war reserves can be distilled into three issues:
"In fact, during Yolanda in November 2013, fuel allocated as
war reserves were utilized as we are committed not to stop until the job is done; and this same fuel needs to be replenished."
Despite the lessons of the preceding years, the British government's anti-gun paranoia remained undiminished and after the disbanding of the Home Guard in 1944, their arms were collected and those not considered suitable for storage as
war reserves were disposed of in 1945 and 1946 by dumping them into the North Sea!
A 2010 Congressional Research Service report states that the Army intends to create an effective mix of wheeled vehicle systems by adding thousands of MRAPs into unit MTOEs: 5,570 MRAPs in infantry brigade combat teams (BCTs), 1,700 in heavy BCTs, 165 into Stryker BCTs, 5,350 in support units, 1,000 in training sets, and 1,000 in
war reserves.
