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File: 111396_aacvt_13.txtor insufficient to permit on-base storage of the required munitions stockpile. To compensate for inadequate storage capacity, a depot type facility was established in the Central Region of Saudi Arabia in September 1990. This location, known as Al Kharj, provided USCENTAF with an explosives overflow capacity of 14 million pounds of class 1.1. This location, coupled with construction at Jeddah, A1 Minhad, Al Dhafra, Taif, and Doha, increased AOR storage capacity to 47.8 million pounds of net explosives weight (NEW). Munitions activity during Operation Desert Shield was largely concerned with distributing stocks from prepositioning sites in Oman and from the ports in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia to points of intended use; expanding storage capacities at each of these locations, where possible, to minimize malpositioning problems; and scrubbing 30 and 60 day operational requirements documents and resupply ship cargoes to ensure a good match to meet closure dates in the AOR. At the outbreak of hostilities, there was approximately 34 days of supply on shore and 10 additional days of supply on board three sustainment ships which were in the process of being unloaded at Jeddah, Ad Damman, and the UAE. Follow on support of USCENTAF forces from outside the AOR did not occur until mid February when the first increment of M117 bombs for B-52 support at Jeddah arrived in the AOR. As operational tasking changed due to bombing results munitions shortfalls developed and required somewhat creative redistribution strategies to fix quickly. The first major
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