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disk and GPS see joined together as a

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result of a BRAC decision . And the

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feeling was that you really couldn't

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justify having two separate facilities

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to separate uh back offices to separate

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command structures in the same time .

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So they brought the two together even

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though the mission was significantly

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different . But delay made some big

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changes elsewhere at the same time ,

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which were kind of important . They

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shifted the hardware centers away from

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commodity buying to support of

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customers during the first gulf war .

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Desert Shield that just did not have a

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big role . Most of the stuff that they

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bought where it was weapons systems ,

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spare parts and when you move troops

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into a given area , they typically have

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enough of that initial supply of spare

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parts that they travel with it . Um ,

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Whereas , uh , two years after Desert

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Shield , Desert Storm , I arrived in

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south philadelphia to defense personnel

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support center and their mission was

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significantly in uh impacted by the

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Desert Shield . Desert Storm operation .

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Just as one example , um

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the medical director and D . P . S . C .

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At the time held several $100 million

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worth of inventory in the in the

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warehouse is ready to deploy when uh

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something like desert shield desert

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Storm would occur when all the troops

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were sent in the Middle East . They

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didn't requisition any of that material

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from the medical directorate . All the

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doctors who were mostly reserve

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officers doctors , They ordered all the

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stuff they were used to using in their

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private life medical realized that they

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no longer had a mission if they were

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buying their own packaged od green

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medical supplies that Kaz Medical to

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shift to the prime vendor mall , it was

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a huge change . Medical went from

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$800 million dollars worth of medical

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supplies down to virtually Less than a

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100 million and and doing the same

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mission . And today they do billions of

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dollars worth of work from multiple

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agencies , with uh almost no supplies

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sitting in the depot . So the shift of

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commercial practices was really caused

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by Desert Shield , Desert Storm .

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Mhm .