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        or 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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