Army eyes changes to emergency war gear stocks amid review

As the war with Iran provides the military with new insights on how to prepare for contemporary conflict, the Army is nearing decisions on changes to make to its own emergency stockpiles. The service expects to soon make a decision in light of a wide-ranging review of its prepositioned stocks “within the next calendar year,” Maj. Gen. Gavin Lawrence, deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Materiel Command, told Military Times in an interview. The review, called TAP2E, Total Army Power Projection Equipment, aims to assess the laydown of the Army’s forward-deployed and stored gear, including…