US Army Joint Munitions Command stood up.On 17 January, the Army celebrated the provisional stand up of the US Army Joint Munitions Command (JMC JMC - Jamaican Me Crazy JMC - James Madison College JMC - Japan Map Center JMC - Jax Money Crew (computer gaming) JMC - Jefferson Medical College JMC - Jerusalem Music Centre (Israel) JMC - Jesus and Mary College (India) JMC - Jiangling Motors Corporation Ltd (China) JMC - John Mason Cook (tourism company) JMC - John Muir College (University of California, San Diego) JMC - Joint Medical Committee (NATO) JMC - Joint Message Center) at Rock Island Rock Island, town, CanadaRock Island, town (1991 pop. 1,067), S Que., Canada, at the Vermont border. It is the seat of Stanstead College. Machine tools, dies, and textiles are made.Rock Island, city, United StatesRock Island, city (1990 pop. 40,552), seat of Rock Island co., NW Ill., on the Mississippi and Rock rivers, adjacent to Moline and opposite Davenport, Iowa; inc. 1841. Arsenal, Illinois, the site of the new command. It is the Department of the Defense's field operating agency for the "single manager for conventional munitions" mission. As such, the command manages the production, storage, issue and demilitarization of conventional ammunition for all US military servicesTo meet the needs of the transformed fighting forces of the 21st century, JMC is developing and modernizing systems to provide theater and field commanders accurate, up-to-the minute information on the status of munitions. Through its Army Field Support Command (AFSC AFSC - Advanced Features Service Center (AT&T) AFSC - Air Force Safety Center AFSC - Air Force Satellite Control AFSC - Air Force Space Command AFSC - Air Force Specialty Code AFSC - Air Force Supply Code AFSC - Air Force Systems Command AFSC - Air Forces Services Command AFSC - Alaska Fisheries Science Center AFSC - Allowable Foreign Selling Costs AFSC - AMC Field Support Center AFSC - American Friends Service Committee) component, JMC serves as a platform for projecting logistics power anywhere in the world. AFSC maintains prepositioned stocks of weapons and equipment stored at land-based sites around the world and aboard ships. AFSC also provides direct support to combat units deployed to the front lines and operates sites near forward areas, such as logistic support elements (LSEs). Taken from the JMC News Release, 22 January 2003 |
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