Operation Desert Storm: The Services' Efforts to Provide Logistics Support for Selected Weapon Systems

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the mission capability rates of selected Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps air and ground weapon systems deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm, focusing on: (1) whether those rates were achieved at the expense of non-deployed forces; (2) what logistics actions the services took to ensure high mission capability rates for the deployed systems; (3) whether the services had anticipated sustainability problems; and (4) whether the services planned for or anticipated the types of problems that arose in a desert environment.