Posted on 02/11/2010 12:33:36 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Ahead of the United States’s planned withdrawal from Iraq, American military teams have visited Israel to consider the possibility of storing some of the equipment and ammunition that is pulled out in special storage centers at various locations here, according to senior defense officials.
According to the officials, the Americans plan to leave a significant amount of equipment in Iraq to assist local security forces. Additional equipment, though, would be transferred to Afghanistan as well as possibly to Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
A security agreement between the United States and Iraq calls for withdrawal of all US forces by the end of 2011. The equipment that Israel might receive, one official said, is ammunition, vehicles, and a specially designed rapid cannon – called C-RAM – that can intercept small projectiles such as mortars.
“There is talk that some of the equipment will be stored in Israel,” the official said. “If that is the case, in the event of an emergency we may be able to use it.”
Last month, Defense News reported that the Pentagon had decided to double the value of emergency military stockpiles it stores in Israel to the value of $800 million. Defense officials said that this was a separate move, not connected to the withdrawal from Iraq.
The US already maintains several stockpiles in Israel that include missiles, armored vehicles, aerial munitions and artillery ordnance. The US began stockpiling equipment in Israel in the early 1990s.
The new deal, according to Defense News, was signed by Brig.-Gen. Ofer Wolf, head of the IDF’s Logistics and Technology Branch and Rear-Adm. Andy Brown, logistics director for the US Military’s European Command (EUCOM).
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We will.
It is expensive to move. It’s in a good storage area. If they don’t use it we will in 2013.
I like the idea very much. Its a fist step in establishing a U.S. base in Israel.
Maybe lead to NATO membership
“I like the idea very much. Its a fist step in establishing a U.S. base in Israel.”
... another US base.
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“like the idea very much. Its a fist step in establishing a U.S. base in Israel.”
As opposed to the 100s of US Airmen I trained with in Israel. (Or I trained with in Columbus, MS. Very wet.)
Well, that would be much cheaper than shipping it all back to the mainland, that’s for sure.
Maybe India could use whatever Israel doesn’t have a use for?
I hope not.
If we have a base in Israel, we would be in striking distance of Iran.
I think this is the same info as was posted before, but new ping regardless. :’) Thanks sonofstrangelove.
Think a base within a base...
The C-RAMS won’t be stored in Israel; it will be on standby for incoming rockets, artillery, and mortars.
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