JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

Matt Davis, 673d Logistics Readiness Squadron contractor, loads Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel onto a trailer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The materiel consists of rapidly deployable equipment sets that enable facility establishment, communications, and aircraft sortie generation in austere environments, thereby reducing the need for long-distance airlift of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

Matt Davis, 673d Logistics Readiness Squadron contractor, loads Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel onto a trailer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The materiel consists of rapidly deployable equipment sets that enable facility establishment, communications, and aircraft sortie generation in austere environments, thereby reducing the need for long-distance airlift of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

Matt Regevig, left, and Matt Davis, 673d Logistics Readiness Squadron contractors, load Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel onto a trailer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The materiel consists of rapidly deployable equipment sets that enable facility establishment, communications, and aircraft sortie generation in austere environments, thereby reducing the need for long-distance airlift of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

673d Logistics Readiness Squadron contractors, Xavier Strong, left, and Matt Regevig, clear snow from a trailer in order to load Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The movement of PWM revamps Pacific Air Command's ability to rapidly generate airpower and provides the theater with enhanced infrastructure, robust material maintenance, and advanced command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel sits on a trailer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. This effort, central to the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment scheme of maneuver, shifts critical equipment to strategic locations throughout the Indo-Pacific to increase survivability while generating combat power. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel sits on a trailer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. This effort, central to the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment scheme of maneuver, shifts critical equipment to strategic locations throughout the Indo-Pacific to increase survivability while generating combat power. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 773d Logistics Readiness Squadron load Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The materiel consists of rapidly deployable equipment sets that enable facility establishment, communications, and aircraft sortie generation in austere environments, thereby reducing the need for long-distance airlift of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jakob Smith, 773d Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation support operator, guides a forklift during a Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel movement at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The movement of PWM revamps Pacific Air Command's ability to rapidly generate airpower and provides the theater with enhanced infrastructure, robust material maintenance, and advanced command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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U.S. Air Force Airman Aiden Gonzales, 773d Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation support operator, operates a forklift during a Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel movement at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The materiel consists of rapidly deployable equipment sets that enable facility establishment, communications, and aircraft sortie generation in austere environments, thereby reducing the need for long-distance airlift of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jakob Smith, 773d Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation support operator, guides a forklift during a Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel movement at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The movement of PWM revamps Pacific Air Command's ability to rapidly generate airpower and provides the theater with enhanced infrastructure, robust material maintenance, and advanced command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

U.S. Air Force contractors assigned to the 673rd Logistics Readiness Squadron, haul Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel equipment at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The materiel consists of rapidly deployable equipment sets that enable facility establishment, communications, and aircraft sortie generation in austere environments, thereby reducing the need for long-distance airlift of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

U.S. Air Force Airman Aiden Gonzales, 773d Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation support operator, operates a forklift during a Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel movement at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The movement of PWM revamps Pacific Air Command's ability to rapidly generate airpower and provides the theater with enhanced infrastructure, robust material maintenance, and advanced command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)

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JBER ships prepositioned warfighting materiel

Published Feb. 26, 2026
By Senior Airman Hunter Hites
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Public Affairs

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Matt Davis, 673d Logistics Readiness Squadron contractor, loads Prepositioned Warfighting Materiel onto a trailer at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 15, 2026. The materiel consists of rapidly deployable equipment sets that enable facility establishment, communications, and aircraft sortie generation in austere environments, thereby reducing the need for long-distance airlift of supplies. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Hunter Hites)