The new depot will be built near Powidz Air Base in west-central Poland, state news agency PAP reported.
At the launch of the project, Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said: “We are building a military-equipment storage facility for a US Army brigade combat team.”
New US Army depot to be ready in 2024
He added that the new depot would be completed in April 2024.
Błaszczak told reporters that the new storage facility would be located next to another supply complex for the US Army in Poland.
That other facility is under construction and “will be ready by the end of this year,” he said.
Poland's Powidz also hosts an important air base, officials noted.
56 ECMs
Meanwhile, the new depot will consist of 56 Earth-Covered Magazines (ECM), including 51 for the US Army and five for the Polish Army, reporters were told.
Jointly financed by Poland, NATO and the United States, the storage facility will be devised “to swiftly equip allied forces, especially US troops, with military equipment, so that they can provide concrete support to the Polish Army in a crisis situation,” Błaszczak told a news conference.
"We are proud of the fact that 12,000 US soldiers are stationed in Poland," he said, adding that Polish soldiers were "training shoulder to shoulder" with American troops.
“We are doing all this for the sake of the security of Poland and the eastern flank of NATO,” Błaszczak declared.
Those at the ceremony included the US ambassador to Poland, Mark Brzezinski.
Thursday was day 99 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, polskatimes.pl