CONTROL AND USE OF EXCESS PROPERTY AND RELATED FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROBLEMS FOLLOWING U.S. MILITARY EXCLUSION FROM FRANCE— 1966-67 MONDAY, MAY 29, 1967 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON DONABLE PROPERTY Kaiserslautern, Germany. The subcommittee met at 1:30 p.m. in the Office of the Depot Commander, U.S. Army General Depot, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Hon. John S. Monagan (subcommittee chairman) presiding. Subcommittee members present: Hon. John S. Monagan (chairman), and Hon. Margaret M. Heckler. Subcommittee staff members present: Miles Q. Romney, counsel; Peter S. Barash, legal assistant. Also present: Col. Robert K. Nelson, commanding officer, USAGDK; Mr. I. Levinson, special assistant, Supply and Maintenance Agency, Communications Zone; Col. William Pencak, I. & S., Communications Zone; Brig. Gen. Frank D. Clay, C/S, Communications Zone; Mr. James O'Boyle, comptroller, USAGD, Kaiserslautern; Mr. Gerald Manning, Deputy Director of Administration and Services, USAGD, Kaiserslautern; Mr. Adolph Mezzapell, deputy director of supply and transportation, USAGD, Kaiserslautern; Mr. Robert Harkins, deputy director of maintenance, USAGD, Kaiserslautern; Mr. James Matthews, program director, USAGD, Kaiserslautern; Mr. Robert M. Gilroy, audit manager, European Branch of International Division, General Accounting Office, Frankfurt, Germany; Mr. Jack K. Woll, director, Government Property Resources Division, Office of Procurement, Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.; and Col. John Pfeiffer, Headquarters, USAREUR, escort officer. BRIEFING BY COL. ROBERT K. NELSON Colonel NELSON. Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a pleasure to welcome you to the Kaiserslautern General Depot. Kaiserslautern was established originally as the Rhine Engineer Depot in 1951. In 1958 it was converted as a general depot, and since that time it has been responsible for the storage, issue, and maintenance of classes II and IV supplies and equipment formerly belonging to all of the technical services with the exception of medical. 129 CHART NO. 1.-PRINCIPAL MISSIONS The principal missions of the depot are outlined on this chart. Wẹ have a peacetime mission to receive, store, maintain in storage, and ship general supplies and repair parts as directed. We receive and store reserve and special project stocks. We receive and deliver supplies destined for military units of nations participating in the cooperative logistics program, both here and at Germersheim. We receive, store, and ship radiological waste and toxic chemicals. We perform depot maintenance of equipment as directed. We provide direct and general support maintenance to the USAREUR Augmentation Readiness Group and ET-A sites. And generally we are charged with the responsibility of maintenance of all U.S.-owned rail equipment in the area. CHART NO. 2-DEPOT INSTALLATIONS Actually, Kaiserslautern General Depot is a depot complex, as you can see on this chart. We have the Rhine Ordnance Barracks where we store pipeline stocks and this, again, was established as a result of FRELOC. We have a static storage site at North Point where we store reserve bridging. We have pipeline materiel stored here at Uhlerborn. At Waldorf we have pipeline materiel stored, and we also have some at Germersheim which you saw this morning. We have a rail maintenance activity at Rheinau and Rheingonheim, where we store pipeline stocks. At South Point we store reserve stocks of bridging. And finally, we have the depot activity at Germersheim, which you visited this morning. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH-KAISERSLAUTERN GENERAL DEPOT Next is an aerial photograph of the activities at Kaiserslautern. Our northern boundary is the Saarbrucken-to-Mannheim autobahn. The east end of the southern boundary is Highway 37. The city of Kaiserslautern is our western boundary. The area covers about 737 acres. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH-RHINE ORDNANCE BARRACKS Next we have an aerial photograph of our storage site at Rhine Ordnance Barracks. These are pipeline stocks along with the necessary supporting equipment in here. We have about 14,000 tons of materiel stored at the Rhine Ordnance Barracks. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH-UHLERBORN " This is an aerial photograph of Uhlerborn. We share this facility with the 7th Army. This, again, was opened up as a result of FRELOČ. We have about 14,000 tons of pipeline stored at Uhlerborn. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH-RHEINAU This is an aerial photograph of Rheinau. We have two small maintenance facilities where we perform railway field maintenance, primarily on diesel locomotives. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH-SOUTH POINT This next chart is an aerial photograph of South Point. Parked along the drives are trucks placed in long-term storage configuration. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH-GERMERSHEIM Next is an aerial photograph of Germersheim, which was taken pre-FRELOC. I think that is one of the most dramatic examples we can show you of the change in that installation as a result of FRELOC. To accomplish our mission we are organized in this fashion. My staff here serves in the dual role as an operator as it pertains to Kaiserlautern General Depot and as staff as it relates to the Germersheim activity. These are supporting functions which support the entire depot clear across the board. " CHART NO. 4-TONS IN STORAGE BY MATERIEL CATEGORY AS OF MARCH 31, 1967 The next chart shows the stratification of our stocks by materiel category. This column reflects the storage at Germersheim and this column reflects the storage at Kaiserslautern. The bottom line reflects the tonnage we had in storage as of June 30, 1966, and it reflects the significant increase that has taken place particularly in view of FRELOC. CHART NO. 5-RECEIPTS BY SOURCE, SHORT TONS This next chart shows our receiving activity here at Kaiserslautern, using the same format as we saw this morning at Germersheim. It shows our monthly averages for fiscal year 1965 and for the first 9 months of fiscal year 1966, and monthly for the period April through March. The red portion of the bars represents tonnage shipped to us from the French depots. The yellow portion represents unit returns from posts, camps, and stations here in Germany. And the green portion represents CONUS in-bound receipts. CHART NO. 6-RECEIPTS BY SOURCE-LINE ITEMS This chart reflects our activity receiving-wise in terms of line items. Our two big peaks in August and again in February were the result of shipments of small repair parts shipped from France. CHART NO. 7-REQUISITION AND SUPPLY FLOW This next chart shows how we fit into the requisition and supply flow system here in Europe. When a unit requests an item, the requisition flows progressively to the rear until it can be satisfied. The COMZ stock control division in Zweibrucken places a materiel release order on the depot, directing the shipment of the item to the customer. If it exists within the 7th Army system, they direct the 7th Army general support storage location to ship that item to the customer. This is in effect a 7th Army depot. If it does not exist within the 7th Army system, that is reported to the stock control division in Zweibrucken, who directs a COMZ depot to ship it either back to the 7th Army storage activity or he can go back to the unit in terms of high priority. If the item is not within the theater storage it is referred to an appropriate control point and they then direct a CONUS depot to ship back to the theater. CHART NO. 8-MILSTRIP SHIPPING PROCESSING TIMES This next chart shows the standard milstrip shipping processing times and the section we are primarily interested in is that part under the depot. Under high priority requisitions the times shown there are in hours. From the time we receive the order from the stocking division until we have it out the front gate we have 16 hours, and this is 16 clock hours 365 days a year. The times shown here are in days. These are calendar days on positions 7 and 8, respectively. CHART NO. 9-SHIPMENT PROCESSING The next chart shows how we process these requisitions internally. A materiel release order is transceived from the stock control division in Zweibrucken. The first day is spent processing this in our data processing division. It is necessary to do this because the COMZ stock control division does not maintain special location of these items. So we must match the two together. We print out the shipping document, which goes to our storage division, who is allotted 2 days to locate, pick, pack, and prepare the item for shipment. About 40 percent of our line items move out through the Army Post Office. However, this amounts to less than 1 percent of the total tonnage that we ship. Our tonnage items are moved out through our transportation division, who are allowed 2 days. About 75 to 80 percent of our total tonnage moves to the customer by the Military Highway 37 Transportation Group, which is another COMZ unit. The rail portion shown here is ordinarily outsize cargo tanks, tractors, bulldozers, as well as shipments being moved to a location not serviced by the Highway 37 Transportation Group, for instance, Antwerp and Amsterdam. CHART NO. 10-SHIPMENT BY DESTINATION This next chart shows our shipping activity by destination. The blue portion of the bar represents shipments of the military assistance program. The red portion represents shipments to other depots or |