WASHINGTON — In a significant indication of where the Army
anticipates it will be deployed over coming years, and what it will be
doing there, the service is planning to relocate some of its vast
overseas stores of combat equipment and alter the contents of other
warehouse stocks to reflect the changing nature of the mission after the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Large numbers of MRAPs, the armored troop carriers built to withstand the blast of improvised explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan, would be stored in Italy, where they could be transported for contingencies across Africa. Those could include disaster relief in hostile environments, civilian evacuations or counterinsurgency assistance to local security forces.
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Large numbers of MRAPs, the armored troop carriers built to withstand the blast of improvised explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan, would be stored in Italy, where they could be transported for contingencies across Africa. Those could include disaster relief in hostile environments, civilian evacuations or counterinsurgency assistance to local security forces.
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