An Army Field Support Battalion-Charleston team member walks up the roll on/roll off ramp of the USNS Pomeroy (T-AKR 316) as the ship is docked and prepared to receive its load of military equipment and supplies as part of the Army Prepositioned Stocks, or APS, program. (Ellen Crown)

U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command Commander Col. Gary Cooper talks to team members from the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency’s APS-3 (medical) warehouse in Goose Creek, South Carolina, during an APS-3 site visit to the USNS Pomeroy (T-AKR 316) March 23, 2023. The engagement provided staff with insights into how and where medical materiel is stored on the roll on/roll off cargo ship as part of the Army Prepositioned Stocks, or APS, program. (Ellen Crown)

Maj. Janessa Moyer, director of the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency’s Force Projection Directorate, stands topside of the USNS Pomeroy (T-AKR 316) overlooking prepositioned stocks that are ready to load onto the ship at port in Charleston, South Carolina. The Pomeroy is a roll on/roll off cargo vessel – one of several in the Military Sealift Command inventory – that transports and stores military equipment and supplies as part of the Army Prepositioned Stocks, or APS, program. (Photo Credit: Ellen Crown)

APS-3 (medical) site manager James Gerrard stands in a medical warehouse bay in Goose Creek, South Carolina. (Photo Credit: Ellen Crown)