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employment doctrine of the MAGTF and the availability and responsiveness of
access to stocks of war reserve materiel (WRM), which is maintained in
accordance with DOD policy.
War Reserve Material (WRM) is defined as mission-essential principal end items,
secondary items, and munitions required to attain operational objectives in the
scenarios authorized for sustainability planning and other stockage objectives
approved for programming in the Defense Planning Guidance. WRM inventories
are acquired during peacetime. These inventories are flexible, and they provide an
expansion capability that can respond to spectrum regional contingencies, while
minimizing investment in resources.
The Marine Corps attempts to satisfy the WRM requirement by first using
peacetime operating stocks possessed by the Marine Corps or the DOD. To satisfy
remaining requirements, the Marine Corps relies on the U.S. industrial base and
host nation support. Finally, the Marine Corps stocks assets to meet WRM
requirements only when other, less resource-intensive alternatives prove
infeasible.
MAGTFs will deploy with sustainment drawn from WRM stocks, which are
inventories that are accumulated based on the war materiel requirement. These
inventories may not exactly equal the war materiel requirement because of
funding constraints. Figure 2-7 depicts the sourcing of war materiel in support of
a MAGTF.
Peacetime Force Materiel Stocks.
Peacetime force materiel stocks are on-hand inventories that support dayto-day
operational and training requirements of the operating forces and
the Marine Corps Reserve.
War Materiel Procurement Capability.
War materiel procurement capability is the quantity of an item that can be
ordered on D-day or after the day an operation commences. Sources can
include industry or other available sources; e.g., host nations.
War Reserve Materiel Stocks.
WRM stocks consist of two portions: field and inventory control. WRM
stocks (field) is the portion of the war reserve material stocks held by the
operating forces. WRM stocks (inventory control point) is the portion of
the WRM stocks held at the wholesale level at Marine Corps logistics
bases or in the
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