Nearly three million packs of daily food rations are also being stockpiled and pre-positioned.
In all events, athletes compete against the clock, skiing a prescribed course requiring turns through pre-positioned gates.
We pre-positioned water, food, generators, tarps and other supplies in incident staging bases based along the path of the storm.
It's going to take time for first responders to begin rescue operations and to get the resources we've pre-positioned to people in need.
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This joins an existing brigade-set of equipment already pre-positioned in Kuwait.
Two of the team members are pre-positioned in Cyprus and the whole team is ready for deployment within 24-48 hours of consent being given by the Syrian authorities.
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The Army and the Air Force both have pre-positioned equipment in the Indian Ocean at Diego Garcia, ready to respond to a crisis in the Persian Gulf region.
Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the U.S. Mission in Bangladesh, anticipating the storm, pre-positioned 16 Zodiac boats, water treatment systems, water ambulances and food for a more rapid response.
But a whole variety of factors - the call-up of certain types of reservists, the chartering of commercial shipping, the reported movement of pre-positioned equipment both to and within the Gulf region - all suggests that if war comes, it could begin with far fewer signs of obvious preparation than many people have argued.
The goal is to establish a pre-qualified pool of private sector partners positioned to finance development of large scale renewable energy projects and re-coup their capital investment through the sale of energy to the Army, and excess energy back to the grid.
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