Zitat:March 17, 2005: The war in Iraq is expensive in terms of payroll, as well as ammo, weapons and other supplies. For example, in the next year, the U.S. Army plans to spend $13.8 billion on additional pay for troops involved in Iraq operations. Most of this money goes to full time pay for reservists, and special pay for those serving overseas and in a combat zone. In addition, temporarily increasing its personnel strength, from 482,000 to 507,000, will cost another $1.5 billion next year. [...]

March 14, 2005: The U.S. Army is spending $3.2 billion to buy new vehicles next year. Most are armored, including 93 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, 22 Stryker wheeled armored vehicles, 724 wheeled Armored Security Vehicles (for the military police) and 4,528 armored hummers. The army is also getting 1,520 medium trucks and 456 heavy trucks (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks). [...]
It will cost $372 million to buy 13 AH-54 Apache helicopter gunships and five UH-60 Black Hawk transport helicopters. Most of the ammunition being used in Iraq is for rifles and machine-guns, so next year the army will spend $875 million to replace that. [...]

Zitat:Lauf Armee kann die Reserve und die Nationalgarde nun statt mit 22,6 Mio mit über 80 Mio Kandidaten rechnen. Laut Regierungsangaben sind derzeit 46 Prozent der US-Reservisten in Irak und Afghanistan im Einsatz".

Zitat:Mr NoBrain postete
Bei den BWTV-News haben sie die Zahlen anders angegeben. Dort wurde gesagt das es bisher ca. 60 Millionen Kandidaten gebe und das mit der Anhebung des Alters ca. 20 Millionen mehr zur Verfügung stehen, insgesamt also ca. 80 Millionen.

46% passt laut BWTV, dort wurde geagt, das "knapp die Hälfte der im Irak eingesetzten Soldaten Reservisten sind".

Zitat:US-Armee will Heer in Europa massiv verringern
Die USA wollen ihr Heeres-Truppenkontingent in Europa drastisch reduzieren. Statt 62.000 sollen nur noch 24.000 Soldaten stationiert sein.

Die USA wollen ihr Militär strategisch neu ausrichten. Deshalb sollen einige Einheiten in die Vereinigten Staaten zurückgeholt werden und kleinere Einheiten vorübergehend auf rotierender Basis unter anderem in den Osten Europas verlegt werden. Insgesamt solle die Heeres-Truppenstärke in Europa in den nächsten fünf bis zehn Jahren von 62.000 auf 24.000 Soldaten reduziert werden, kündigte Elke Herberger, Sprecherin der US-Armee, an. [...]

Zitat:Pentagon schließt Stützpunkte

Andere Zeiten - anderes Militär

Das US-Verteidigungsministerium will landesweit 33 große und zahlreiche kleinere Militärstützpunkte schließen. 29 weitere große Armee-Basen sollen nach dem Willen von Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld neu strukturiert werden. Insgesamt steht damit rund jeder zehnte Stützpunkt in den USA vor dem Aus. Den betroffenen Regionen drohen durch die Pläne schwere wirtschaftliche Einbußen.

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Stand: 14.05.2005 08:47 Uhr

Zitat:The U.S. Army is undergoing a rare restructuring. This one will cut the number of infantry or tank battalions per brigade from three to two, and add more support units. This will allow brigades to be sent overseas without the addition of a lot of support units (engineer, supply, transportation, signal, Etc.) from division, or higher level, units. That means the new brigades train all the time with the support units, because those support units are part of the brigade. Those support units will also get more realistic training, and more combat training as well.

This reorganization will increase the number of combat brigades from 33 to 43. This will provide enough brigades so that active duty brigades can spend at least two years at home for every year they are overseas. [...]

Zitat:bastian postete
Der Trend scheint dahinzugehen, die Brigade zum ersten komplett ausgerüsteten Großverband anstelle der Division zu machen.
Von zusätzlichen Kampfbatallionen hat man ohne den entsprechenden Supporteinsatz nichts. Eine Umwandlung von Support in Kampfbatallione ist nicht ohne weiteres möglich.
Das Support- Kämpfer Verhältnis liegt ungefähr bei 10:1. Da sollte man meiner Meinung nach mal ansetzen, irgendwie müsste man den logistischen Schwanz einer Einheit doch kürzer kriegen...

Zitat:$129.4M for more M1117 Guardian ASVs
Textron Marine & Land Systems in New Orleans, LA was awarded on Aug. 31, 2005, a $129.4 million modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for M1117 "Guardian" Armored Security Vehicles, which are well regarded by military police in Iraq as improved alternatives to the up-armored Hummers. See this post for key DID coverage of the M1117, and we also have a link for all of DID's M1117 ASV-related coverage.

Even before this modification, contracts from the US military had already exceeded 1,000 M1117s at aproximately $700,000 per vehicle. Bell Textron subsidiary Cadillac Gage was working hard to ramp production back up and cope with this flood of orders, after pre-war budget cuts in 2002 had put a large crimp in the program. Unfortunately, this flood of orders has now been followed by a flood of a different kind. Work on all M1117 contracts is performed at Textron Marine & Land Systems sole location ... New Orleans, LA. [...]

Zitat:Hummers, Hummers Everywhere
The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Warren, MI has issued a slew of orders for various configurations of the HMMWV ("Hummer") armored jeep. Work is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2007, and will be performed by AM General LLC in South Bend, IN. All fall under a sole source, firm-fixed-price contract initiated on July 17, 2000 (DAAE07-01-C-S001).

Together, these contracts for various HMMWV types destined for U.S. and Iraqi forces are worth a total of $296.5 million, and cover over 3,000 vehicles. [...]

Zitat:US-MILITÄRTECHNIK

Hightech-Mobil soll Humvees ablösen

Weil bereits Hunderte US-Soldaten bei Anschlägen auf Humvees umgekommen sind, sucht die US-Armee nach sichereren Fahrzeugen. Ein jetzt vorgestelltes Konzeptauto setzt auf Hightech-Panzerung und Bordcomputer zur besseren Steuerung. ...

Zitat:Hurricane Katrina has reduced production of armored vehicles used by troops in Iraq. The plant assembling the ASV (armored security vehicle) is in southern Louisiana, and was flooded by Katrina. About 85 percent of the 1,200 workers are still missing, having been displaced when their homes were destroyed by the hurricane. The Textron plant itself was damaged, but not destroyed. The workers who have returned are cleaning things up and getting ready to resume production by the end of October. The plant has orders for some 900 ASVs. [...]