PURPOSE

Joint Munitions Command (JMC) is the backbone of our nation’s warfighting capability by ensuring that our troops have the munitions they need to dominate any battlefield, Headquartered at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, JMC has more than 13,000 personnel worldwide, and is the latest in a series of commands since World War II that have managed the nation's ammunition plants. Last year, JMC successfully managed a safe and reliable ammunition stockpile valued at $67B, produced 700M rounds of ammunition, issued and received more than 370K short tons of ammunition, and demilitarized more than 33K short tons of ammunition.

FOCUS

JMC ensures excellence in munitions readiness and sustainment through continual innovation and modernization throughout an expeditionary global force from 18 arsenals, depots, and ammunition plants across the nation that produce millions of rounds of ammunition annually and storage depots that receive, store, issue, and demilitarize training and combat munitions providing warfighter readiness.

IMPACT

JMC provides the conventional ammunition life-cycle functions of logistics sustainment, readiness, and acquisition support for all U.S. military services, other government agencies, and allied nations as directed. JMC is the logistics integrator for life-cycle management of ammunition providing a global presence of technical support to frontline units. Delivering lethality to the joint warfighter at the right place and time.

MISSION

To provide Joint Munitions Command with trained, mission ready, reliable logisticians building and sustaining ammunition readiness, support global operations, and perform annual COCOM exercise support.

BACKGROUND

• JMC ARE DET provides the U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command with an enduring, available, trained, and deployable Reserve Force that is integrated into HQs JMC, the JMC Installations, and when deployed, its overseas locations for the purpose of enhancing the effectiveness of the JMC mission.
• JMC ARE DET offers a Proven Capability Set of logisticians that can perform full-spectrum operations, planning, project-work, contract work, future initiatives, Senior Command Rep support, joint exercise support, ammunition missions and reserve liaison.
• Soldiers can support in a number of ways and are able to provide support utilizing various timeframes of 48 Battle Assemblies (24 duty days)/29+ Annual Training Days/120 day Tours/COADOS Mobilizations. Current staff includes 20 logistics Soldiers.
• Ammo Unit Missions (MOST/Ammo Crucible)
• JMC physical inventory
• Exercise support in Korea to JMC SCR and USFK
• JMC Total Force Integration Support