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Bases with in-place readiness spares packages (IRSP) can, and do, have base-requisitioning objectives (RO) less than their total wartime requirement (TWR). (The base RO is the sum of the wartime RO and the peacetime operating stock [POS] RO and should never be less than the TWR.) As a result, these bases may not have the spares on hand needed for a conflict.
Some Air Force bases are designated as fight in place bases; in other words, they do not deploy to a theater of operations. Instead, they fly their wartime sorties from home station. As a result, these bases have an IRSP instead of a mobility readiness spares package. These IRSP bases are given a TWR for each recoverable item spare (XD3 national stock number [NSN]) loaded at the base, which should be at least equal to the base's RO (the RO is actually one greater than the TWR if there is a positive readiness-based level [RBL]). This TWR includes the sum of the POS, which in the vast majority of cases is the RBL minus one, and the IRSP level.
Implementation Actions
In August 2000, AFSWPWG implemented the minimum ASL options. IRSP bases loaded ASLs for the currently fielded kits rather than waiting for the new kits. The ASLs were loaded with an Air Force level directed by code D, so that RBL will accept the base-generated XE4 transactions containing the ASL data (for transmission to the D035E database) directly from the base and load the ASL without requiring item-manager-specialist file maintenance.
The Air Staff appointed the Requirements Team to oversee the process to ensure the ASLs are properly loaded at the base and in the RBL database (D035E)....