A Soldier turns in excess equipment to the Modernization Displacement and Repair Site at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, Nov. 2, 2023. The Rapid Removal of Excess pilot program has been underway at ...

As part of a new pilot program, Army Materiel Command recently told company commanders at two major bases to have their soldiers turn in excess equipment they’d amassed from decades of ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii – The Army demonstrated its Rapid Removal of Equipment initiative using units of the 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command from Dec. 9 to 13 ...

The U.S. Army has warehouses packed with weapons its soldiers no longer need. But the service doesn't know where they all are, nor what condition they’re in.

Other programs asking troops to lighten their load have seen success. At the unit level, an Army Materiel Command initiative called Rapid Removal of Excess Equipment or R2E led to soldiers at Fort ...

Researchers from Pennington Biomedical’s Center for Military Performance and Resilience and the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine are teaming up to assess the health and ...

Over 60% by weight of all battle supplies consists of oil and gasoline. The early desert campaigns convinced soldiers that old methods of distributing this colossal load under fire were too slow ...