https://youtu.be/SAQQ7kdqmlU
That’s not a storage yard. It’s a rebuild and reclamation facility. Many of the tanks and other vehicles there are either in need of a complete rebuild (as another poster pointed out) or are simply old and verging on obsolete. A lot of what fighting vehicles I could see on screen was so old it isn’t even stuff Guard units would deploy - for example, none of the M1s pictured had the TUSK kit or the CROWS turret on top, and there are other bits of kit missing indicating that the tanks are mostly M1s (no longer in service with the US Army in any capacity other than “target”) and M1A1s (the last of which is set to leave service with reserve and Guard units in 2021), mostly from Guard units by the markings and equipment. The ones I could see up close don’t even have the brackets or signs of the brackets ever having been installed for the various M1A1 SEP or TUSK upgrades, so they’re ***old***.
Remember, the M1 has been made for ***40 years*** now - in fact the thing has been in service long enough for earlier models to start appearing in museums - so the oldest ones in the inventory are going to be worn out and obsolete.
No few of the tanks in that video are M60A3s - a tank type that was last made in 1983, was removed from active formations in the 1990s and whose very last US Army use was as training aids in 2005. It’s been ***15 years since then*** and they’re being scrapped or waiting to be sold to foreign nations - they are *not* sitting there stored against future need as the logistics train to support them no longer exists in the US Army. An M60A3 is hopelessly outmatched in modern peer combat or against peer weapons unless upgraded; said upgrades are a significant fraction of the cost of a new M1.
What you are seeing there is stuff back for a rebuild, awaiting sale to an allied foreign military power and stuff awaiting reclamation prior to scrapping. It’s not a storage yard (in fact, they say that at the start of the video!) and at least in the case of the vehicles they will not be used again by US military forces. Of the visible vehicles, most appeared to have last been front line capable back in the 90s.
Take the Humvees that they mentioned were being demilled and sold off - those things first entered service in ***1984*** and a great many of them are no longer suitable for military service, just as an unrestored, unrebuilt 1984 Mustang with 300,000 miles on it is not a good choice as a daily driver. A lot of the rolling stock in that video is ***old*** to the point where it is financially smarter to buy a new one instead of constantly repairing it or spending the money to overhaul a tired chassis.
Let’s take another example - those tracked vehicles on the flatbed rail cars in the video. Those are either M577 command vehicles or M1063 command vehicles - replaced in service by the M4 C2V starting in the 1990s, which in turn was replaced by a version of the Stryker. Some few are left in service today but the vehicles are definitely on the way out. A few are being given to museums as they’re that old - the design dates to the 1960s.
No, really, the M1A1 is now a museum piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aladW_D4nKU
Above is an Abrams armor officer visiting and climbing over an M1A1 (the type he used to serve in) in a museum and reminiscing.